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May. 15th, 2002 11:02 amI heard, and saw the aftermath of, an unusual accident last night.
We live near a fairly convoluted pair of intersections where some traffic has right of way and opposing traffic is warned of that fact. (The signage is pretty good, but there are still lots of minor accidents.) I'll only describe part of it here, the intersection of Beechwood and Dallas.
Traffic east-bound on Beechwood has right of way and can either go straighish on Beechwood or turn left onto Dallas, crossing Forbes about 20 feet later. West-bound traffic on Beechwood has a stop sign. A common path for such traffic is to turn right onto Dallas (and perhaps thence onto Forbes), and that stop sign gets ignored a lot. Complicating this is that about 50 feet earlier, the east-bound traffic has a stop while the west-bound traffic has right of way for the left turn onto Beacon. So for traffic on Beechwood, in each direction you get one stop and one right-of way, not necessarily in that order.
Last night we heard a screech and a thud, and looked out to see a car on its side in the Beechwood-Dallas intersection. It hadn't fully rolled; it was just perched there on its left (driver's) side, facing (more or less) east. (I don't know where on that car the point of impact was.) A car with a crumpled front was facing westish. I assume that the former was coming down Beechwood with right of way and turning onto Dallas when the latter hit her, though I'm not sure. In retrospect I regret not taking a picture, but I would have felt like too much of a voyeur.
I've seen lots of crumpled cars there, but I've never seen a half-roll. I actually wandered out to see if any immediate help was needed, though I assumed it wouldn't be, and someone standing next to the vertical car said the driver was "ok". She wasn't going to get out of that car any time soon, though.
You never really hear the followup from these accidents, so I'll probably never know what happened. I hope the driver is ok. The driver of the car that hit her was up and walking around, and he didn't appear to even be dazed.
It's actually the intersection at Beechwood and Beacon (where the right-of-way goes in the other direction) where we hear most of the accidents, not Beechwood and Dallas. I wonder how many people have to get killed at Beacon before they put in a traffic light
We live near a fairly convoluted pair of intersections where some traffic has right of way and opposing traffic is warned of that fact. (The signage is pretty good, but there are still lots of minor accidents.) I'll only describe part of it here, the intersection of Beechwood and Dallas.
Traffic east-bound on Beechwood has right of way and can either go straighish on Beechwood or turn left onto Dallas, crossing Forbes about 20 feet later. West-bound traffic on Beechwood has a stop sign. A common path for such traffic is to turn right onto Dallas (and perhaps thence onto Forbes), and that stop sign gets ignored a lot. Complicating this is that about 50 feet earlier, the east-bound traffic has a stop while the west-bound traffic has right of way for the left turn onto Beacon. So for traffic on Beechwood, in each direction you get one stop and one right-of way, not necessarily in that order.
Last night we heard a screech and a thud, and looked out to see a car on its side in the Beechwood-Dallas intersection. It hadn't fully rolled; it was just perched there on its left (driver's) side, facing (more or less) east. (I don't know where on that car the point of impact was.) A car with a crumpled front was facing westish. I assume that the former was coming down Beechwood with right of way and turning onto Dallas when the latter hit her, though I'm not sure. In retrospect I regret not taking a picture, but I would have felt like too much of a voyeur.
I've seen lots of crumpled cars there, but I've never seen a half-roll. I actually wandered out to see if any immediate help was needed, though I assumed it wouldn't be, and someone standing next to the vertical car said the driver was "ok". She wasn't going to get out of that car any time soon, though.
You never really hear the followup from these accidents, so I'll probably never know what happened. I hope the driver is ok. The driver of the car that hit her was up and walking around, and he didn't appear to even be dazed.
It's actually the intersection at Beechwood and Beacon (where the right-of-way goes in the other direction) where we hear most of the accidents, not Beechwood and Dallas. I wonder how many people have to get killed at Beacon before they put in a traffic light