4:24 PM: Avoid Highland Park Way east of West Marginal for a while. As shown in the traffic-camera screenshot above, there are crashes on both sides of the street near 2nd SW – the eastbound one involves a school bus, but officers have told dispatch there were no children on board. No serious injuries reported in either crash.
4:51 PM: The eastbound crash has cleared and the live-camera view shows the westbound one should clear soon, with a tow truck on scene.
Y’all, driving is crazy dangerous. People out here costing themselves and others thousands of dollars in damages and getting injured everyday. A good time to remind everyone that taking public transit is by far the safer option. I highly recommend you avoid the dangers of driving at all cost and take public transit instead.
I’m for people taking public transit, but I’m not sure this logic adds up. There is even a bus involved in one of the accidents from this story. And I’ve seen injuries on the bus (people falling out of their seat during hard braking. Required an ambulance. There are no seatbelts on buses)So. Take transit. But I wouldn’t describe it as safer than driving. Possibly less safe due to lack of seatbelts.
Instead of speculating wrongly and publicly, you could just look it up. The NIH has studied the topic (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5906382/) and concludes that taking public transportation is dramatically safer both for the rider and for everyone else.
THX Sam, I was about to post the same article. I’ve preferred transit over cars all my life, but was surprised that riding transit buses is not just “slightly,” but several times safer than driving or riding in cars.
Between bus accidents and fentanyl smoke I’ll stay in my car thanks.
Far more accidents, bad drivers, road ragers, and violence from cars. At least if you get in an accident on a bus you have a miniscule chance of injury and don’t have to deal with damages. Plus the convenience of having someone driving you around. DC is right. Also never seen anyone smoking fent on the bus. Sounds like more is a right wing talking point than something you’d likely encounter
What’s with the “right wing” statement? Is that your default when you disagree with someone because it’s foolish, and not based on anything but a power trip.
This is a city school bus that is in the accident. Not sure how it why your comment went where it did. No correlation at all
The west bound crash in the photo looks like the car took a right turn into the back of the semi. I was recently there a couple of days ago, in the late afternoon. Very aggressive drivers from there and up the hill. I was going about 33 mph and cars were flying past me. 😱 Worst I have experienced there. Good thing there are 2 lanes so they didn’t get frustrated or mad I was only going a little faster than the speed limit.
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