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April 1, 2011 at 6:17 pm #598490
pamMemberWitnessed a car accident today (left name, number, made sure everyone was okay…..) – Just want to say it could have been avoided if the person who technically wasn’t at fault would have stopped to yield for me and the kids at the unmarked intersection. But they didn’t take that few moments to stop and now have $1,000’S of damage to their vehicle. This is why we always stop and look left, right, left and still wait until cars are actually stopped before stepping off the curb. Would rather be alive then right.
April 1, 2011 at 6:40 pm #721642
KBearParticipantI don’t understand. You were crossing on foot at an intersection? And they didn’t stop for you? How is the crash not their fault?
April 1, 2011 at 6:48 pm #721643
WMOParticipantPam, It was very brave of you to put this out on the blog to make our streets safer for pedestrians and drivers.
I wonder how long it will take for the “Right to Speed” crowd, you know the type, self absorbed, very important person, only one in Seattle who is busy, talking on the cell phone group blames you for the audacity to invade the pavement.
I am glad you are ok, Cars can be fixed.
OK, slay me for the run on sentence with poor grammar.
April 1, 2011 at 7:05 pm #721644
JoBParticipantKBear..
i am guessing that the accident technically wasn’t the driver’s fault because the car that hit it illegally entered the intersection..
maybe because they saw the pedestrians and assumed they had an opportunity because the other driver would stop.
failure to yield to pedestrians at a crosswalk .. marked or not.. was their fault…
though it’s highly unlikely they were sited for that infraction in light of the ensuing accident.
Pam…
thanks for the post.
unfortunately, those who most need the warning are unlikely to heed it:(
April 1, 2011 at 7:11 pm #721645
FreedomFromSnarkMemberAgain? Already?
https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/pedestrians-take-responsibility-for-your-own-safety
Are we going to pretend that this thread is going to be any different? Can’t we just preemptively stop this now? Pretty please?
April 1, 2011 at 7:16 pm #721646
pamMemberI expect to catch some garbage – but I’m not going to give too many details since I don’t know if there will be an investigation. We were on the curb, waiting to cross, on an arterial but unmarked intersection. We were waiting for the cars to either stop coming or stop for us when kaboom – a car was nosed out too far and the other car (who if she’d have stopped to let us cross) ran the entire side of her car across the nose of the car that was stopped but too far into the intersection.
My point – if slowed down for two minutes to let us legally cross the street, other person would have been gone and accident wouldn’t have happened. Hoping someone else slows down for a second to have a less stressful day for themselves.
April 1, 2011 at 7:23 pm #721647
JoBParticipantFreedomFromSnark…
if all you see is a snark..
you are unlikely to ever find yourself free of them
April 1, 2011 at 7:52 pm #721648It’s only a [mis-typed] pipe dream in Seattle…
April 1, 2011 at 8:01 pm #721649
flowerpetalMemberThanks for posting Pam. Glad that you and your family are safe. I guess there is a reason these are called accidents – and not “on-purposes”
April 1, 2011 at 8:12 pm #721650
JoBParticipantFreedomFromSmSelfRighteousness
bet it would surprise you to learn that i share that pipe dream.
misspelled or not
April 1, 2011 at 8:20 pm #721651
HomerParticipantJust think if they HAD stopped for you, then the person on their cell phone behind them wouldn’t have noticed them stopped at a random intersection with no light or crosswalk, and then shoved that car that stopped for you, into you and your family……
There are always two sides to a story….
April 1, 2011 at 8:32 pm #721652
pamMemberhonestly-I wait to make sure that person behind them stops too! Too many times having them swing around to pass the car that is stopped for some mysterious reason (like a pedestrian).
It was an accident – pure and simple – but like in nearly (NEARLY) all accidents, could have been avoided. My last comment on the post I started.
April 1, 2011 at 10:41 pm #721653
jaydMemberim confused. was it a crosswalk?
April 1, 2011 at 10:51 pm #721654
KBearParticipantJayd, all intersections are crosswalks in Washington, unless they are specifically marked to prohibit pedestrians.
April 1, 2011 at 11:25 pm #721655
jaydMemberheh, no kidding. Just looked that up myself. File that away in the “laws I disagree with but will angrily obey” file. I couldn’t imagine stepping into an intersection without a crosswalk and expecting all traffic to stop for me just because I’m too impatient to wait for an opening. Thanks for the info, Kbear.
April 1, 2011 at 11:35 pm #721656
KBearParticipantMight as well stop thinking about them as “intersections without crosswalks”, Jayd. They’re “intersections with unmarked crosswalks”.
April 2, 2011 at 12:17 am #721657
jaydMemberTrue story.
On a quick tangent, when looking at that law I also saw that bicyclists are supposed to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks just like vehicles are supposed to. Someone could bear to tell that to those that ride alki.
/tangent
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