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Woman critically injured in early morning bus/car crash on Columbia Road in Dorchester
By adamg on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 9:28am
Firefighters survey what's left of the car. Photo by Live Boston
Live Boston reports an MBTA bus and a car crashed on Columbia Road at Seaver Street in Dorchester, sending the car flying into a row of parked cars.
The car's driver had to be extracted from the car and was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Her son and the bus driver were taken to the hospital with minor injures.
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Comments
Speed
I don't know what caused this accident, but I do know that with fewer cars on the road, people are speeding everywhere in Dorchester. It's really scary and totally out of control
Yeah
Dorchester and everywhere else. The coronavirus limits reenforce the need for speed and red light cameras. People are driving recklessly (even more than normal) with less traffic.
Cities and towns will be
Cities and towns will be hurting financially this year. Enforcing traffic laws for once and having criminal drivers pay the appropriate fines would help fund schools and other programs.
here we go again
can't even have one thread about people crashing their cars into things without the militant "people should stop crashing their cars into things" brigade showing up
Tone police right on queue
Is it really that militant to want road violence addressed?
Also, Kinopio's comment didn't say anything about people should stop crashing their cars into things, which of course they should but rather "enforcing traffic laws for once and having criminal drivers pay the appropriate fines would help fund schools and other programs."
And of course I understand that I'm probs part of that "militant" group that right on queue is defending a fellow advocate. Really curious what kind of tone policing there would be for Mothers Against Drunk driving, what a militant ideology.
apparently
I'm worse at sarcasm than everyone except the President
Apologies on that front
Reactionary on my part for sure but that reads like most of the tone policing about road violence that percolates up from time to time.
No, Michael, the sarcasm was
No, Michael, the sarcasm was pretty clear. Some people didn't get it, but that's not on you.
Data please
So Kinopio
You frequently allege police are not enforcing moving violations. So how do you know that? What actual data do you have that backs up your allegations?
I disagree. We do not need
I disagree. We do not need speed and red light cameras. Don’t we already have the government in our lives enough? No matter what you do idiots are always going to be on the road. Let them crash and learn their lesson. I’d rather use that money for more affordable housing not cameras. Affordable housing is more of a need than anything else.
Prayers
are with this family. This looks like a horrible accident.
Inappropriate speed is the
Inappropriate speed is the main culprit in the vast majority of these road crashes. Less than 36 hours earlier, a similar crash took place a few blocks down the street.
On Saturday evening (4/25) a close friend of mine was at a stop waiting on the left turn lane on Geneva Ave for the light to turn green. A woman came down flying with her SUV and she was unable to stay on her lane when trying to take a right turn from Columbia onto Geneva. She smashed into my friend’s car, totaled his and her car, smashed into a couple of additional cars and came to a full stop when she knocked down a concrete light pole that fell onto her car. Miraculously nobody got seriously injured, although my friend walked out with a broken nose and a bloody face (from the airbag’s impact) and a hurt neck.
These kinds of crashes are not a rarity on Columbia road where people often drive 40 and sometime 50+ MPH, just so they can get to the next red light quicker. I never understand that behavior. If we are going to start fining people for not wearing a mask in public, why can’t we properly enforce speed limits against the drivers who are such a perennial menace to society?