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A remarkable case of a crash victim 'waking up' 27 years after falling into a coma in 1991:
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Of all the horrible crashes in the world, this is probably one of my least favourite varieties--some idiots without driving licences holding an illegal car 'race' on public roads (those cases when people see each other's cars at the lights, often without knowing each other, and then racing off--quite a few of those have been reported in Germany in recent years) and killing someone (article in German):
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/moers-autorennen-verdaechtiger-1.4426377
Absolutely disgusting.
Apparently, the maximum penalty that can be imposed in Germany was revised upwards to ten years in 2017. It's not enough.
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Taxi driver brake checks passenger, dumps the comatose body:
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I didn't realise they had benches outside the Brewdog in Shepherd's Bush (where we've held Wests several times). A terrible lasting injury for this victim:
It sounds as if the driver would have crashed into the building if it hadn't been for the benches out front.
Rowley, 49, passed a breathalyser test but refused to give a blood sample to determine if she had taken drugs, Isleworth crown court was told. She claims she has no memory of the car crash.
She pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving, a separate dangerous driving charge, driving without insurance or a licence, and also admitted an unrelated charge of trying to smuggle 16kg of cannabis into the UK while on bail.
Five years and one month.
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Here's a fatal crash at the very wide Deptford Broadway junction. A young woman was killed while crossing the street on foot.
She would have crossed here:
As you can see if you follow the link, there is one pedestrian traffic signal for this crossing of the three eastbound lanes (the left-turning lane is not signalised). However, there is a split-phase arrangement in which right-turning traffic (into Brookmill Road) can turn when the lights are at red for straight-ahead eastbound traffic. This means that the pedestrian traffic lights can only be at green when all three lanes, both for straight-ahead movement and the right turn, are at red.
Split-phase arrangements can be hazardous in a number of ways, and here it is likely that pedestrians often cross the two straight-ahead lanes when they're stopped at red but the right-turn lane has a green light. While the pedestrian traffic light would have been at red for Julia Luxmoore Peto, she may not have realised that the right-turning lane had a green light. I would personally find it unlikely that she was looking at the pedestrian traffic light governing the section of pedestrian crossing across the westbound lanes, but I don't think it matters whether she was or not. It's definitely confusing that there are different arrangements for the two movements, whether she thought she had a green light or not.
As ever, these arrangements are made to increase through motor traffic capacity. Splitting the two phases enables TfL to make the right-turning phase significantly shorter than the much more dominant straight-ahead phase (and the arrangement is mirrored on the westbound side of the junction), and by rights they should then also install separate pedestrian phases for each, but that would probably just about wipe out the motor traffic capacity gains from the split-phase arrangement, so they went with one phase for pedestrians. This really is something that should have been brought out at the Safety Audit stage at the latest and amended, but probably wasn't done because it would have poleaxed the whole idea for the junction arrangement. It was only redone a few years ago:
https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/a2-deptford-broadway-deptford-bridge-junction/
I can't remember what the exact arrangement was before, but it has, of course, long been a hazardous junction. While I imagine the recent works may have improved some things there, this seems like a deep-seated design flaw. Unfortunately, addressing it might well involve remodelling the whole junction. Fitting 'louvres' to one of the traffic lights isn't going to help much. FIngers crossed that the pattern of this crash won't be repeated.
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There was a spectacular crash at the South end of Albert Bridge this morning. There was a motorcycle completely under a car. There was a second motorbike parked up on the pavement and a lot of cyclists and another car stopped and lots of people on the phone. It looked as though there were no injuries and both motorcyclists were up and walking about, so I've no idea what happened.
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That sounds lucky, hopefully the motorcyclist managed to bail out before he was hit.
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This is really unusual--an elderly woman was hit by a police motorcyclist on a pedestrian crossing. Unusual because these riders are extremely good. They used to come along to 'police' Critical Mass.
As it's a pelican crossing, you imagine the light may have been green for the pedestrian.
As her sister says, 'she may not get through this'--hope she's wrong.
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Army veterans on a motorbike ride in New Hampshire struck head on by a pick up towing a long trailer. 7 dead:
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God, how awful.
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Horrific incident.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48742334
3 years custodial + 5 years disqualified still not enough here with his previous
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Saw the investigation unit out and road closure on my way back from work this evening. Doesn't sound pleasant at all. Early reports of a cyclist hit but appears to be confusion as there was a bike on the ground nearby. Can't see a report anywhere else yet
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Yes, that doesn't sound like a cyclist. Fingers crossed he survives. It also comes hot on the heels of this:
Years ago, the percentage given for fatal crashes caused by emergency service vehicles was about 1%. I don't know if that was ever correct, or what the current figure is.
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Five years? Approaching double the speed limit, never had a licence and no insurance. The piece mentions an expired provisional license as if this is a document that means a thing. If this sort of case doesn’t lead to a review of sentencing then what will?
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I hate this type of crash so much:
RIP.
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I've been fearing a death of an electric scooter rider would happen for some time. Very sad. I've been hoping people might be able to jump clear from a situation like this more often than bike riders, but obviously it's not that simple. Incidents can happen very fast.
Most likely there was some kind of driving error involved, but there are also good reasons why the use of these things is illegal on public land. People can go as fast as a reasonably quick bike rider, 20mph or more, without much or any riding experience, and combined with a scooter they're even smaller than somebody on a bike, making the usual SMIDSY excuse more likely.
None of that is to blame the victim in this incident--as always, sail before steam, and the junction layout there has been even worse than before since they messed it up a few years ago--, but doing something illegally will of course reflect badly on the rider. :(
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There is a cycle lane there but it's not much cop apparently.
Not at all to suggest that the poor lady did anything wrong but people are misusing scooters in NYC, I didn't realise they're quite nippy:
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The scooter thing cropped up on youtube feed the other day.
Think it was Goonsquad off to buy a cheap boat project, stopped off in the city to try the scooters for rent. They kinda are nobs in cars and started joking about the scoots being slower than expected, which by the end of the rental they where glad they had been capped to 15mph and not the rumored 25-30mph...... America or Canada. And user protection was t-shirt and shorts and baseball cap so an off and tarmac interface at 30mph might have battered some sense into them quicker. -
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Emily Hartridge: TV presenter and YouTube star dies in crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48973968
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There was also a fatal crash in Finchley Road:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/finchley-road-crash-man-dies-after-being-hit-by-lorry-on-major-road-in-north-london-a4109721.html
Here, too, the local paper has more information, and it was another elderly person, 94 years old, who was killed:
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/finchley-road-and-overground-station-closed-after-fatal-collision-1-5979065
More detailed reports will probably be published later.