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7:57 AM: Thanks for the tips. The Highland Park Way hill is blocked west of West Marginal by a crash response, Details to come.
8:14 AM: At the scene, police tell us two vehicles (shown above) collided, and two people were taken to the hospital. Tow trucks are already on scene and the hill will reopen when the wrecked vehicles are cleared.
8:28 AM: Officers have just told dispatch the road is reopening both ways.
Any update on the low bridge? seemed to be stuck open @7:40 ruing everybody’s beat rhe bridge weekend plans
When will SDOT do safety measures on the hill itself? This curve is super dangerous and there’s nothing to separate oncoming vehicles; I’ve more than once had to swerve over for a car coming down the hill that was crossing the center line.
The solution is to NEVER use the inside lane when going up Highland Park Way. Far too many close calls for me, and plenty of observations of people crossing the center line as they speed their way down to wait in line at the bottom of the hill.
Not until there’s another fatality. We’re in Seattle, remember?
Stuff like this is why when I bike home I take a 5 mile detour to delridge. I hope the bike lane is still planned to go in here.
Btw, the folks in the car are my friends kids. They are hurt but ok. At Harborview
Thank you for re-centering the conversation to what matters here. ❤️
This stretch of hill serious needs a protective dividing barrier between the two directions of traffic. It gets even worse on those rainy and dark commutes home in the winter.
There is no problem with the street. Its with the drivers, no one drives the speed limit, if they were going 30 there would be no problem.
Word. I’m going to be that person who has lived here forever that says that hill has been that hill for many, many years. There have always been accidents but never to the extent that there have been the past year+. It is the drivers, not the hill. It is the people, not the pavement. Roads and vehicles are not designed to compensate for impatient, reckless, distracted, self-absorbed drivers. No disrespect to those that have been senselessly hurt. Get a grip, people.
You can’t compare data since before the bridge shut down. The city has squeezed this neighborhood of many thousands of drivers into a few, low-speed, barely-capable exits out. Every driver travels the same few routes out now with no reasonable commute times. While there is blame on drivers, we must ask how much responsibility the city should bear for setting up this impossible situation. It’s baffling how much we’ve put up with since the bridge shut down.
My son and his girlfriend were very hurt this am… do you have any more info or video? Please send anything j you saw to me.
You have to remember people, this stretch of road is 25mph. Rarely, if ever do people do that speed. If you are going the posted speed limit, this isn’t a problem. Sorry for the accident, but come on
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