Nikki Kong shows us where he friend's porch used to be on Walk Hill Street in Jamaica Plain, after a driver plowed into it at high speed yesterday. No injuries, the driver walked away, she reports.
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Neighbor's report
By WalkHiller
Mon, 04/17/2023 - 3:02pm
I'm away on vacation, but I live 3 houses down. My upstairs neighbor said the accident happened at 5:30am. The driver swerved to not hit a possum (he still hit it), slammed into a parked car on the opposite side of the street, then swerved again and plowed into the house. People roar up and down the street in the overnight hours especially - it's scary how fast they go. BPD, where you at?
This is a design problem
By SomervilleSteve
Mon, 04/17/2023 - 6:41pm
If people consistently drive faster than is safe, then the road is improperly designed. Traffic “engineers” have well-known methods at their disposal to slow vehicles: narrowing the roadway, adding vertical diverters like speed humps, adding zig-zags (“chicanes”) to the travel lanes, and so on.
If everybody who uses something you designed is “using it wrong,” the problem is with how you designed it.
We don’t need punitive enforcement, we need better infrastructure.
We need both.
By Lee
Mon, 04/17/2023 - 9:44pm
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perhaps,
By tape
Tue, 04/18/2023 - 10:06am
but with how much the BPD seems to care about enforcement (not one bit), overhauling every street in the city seems like it would happen sooner and be infinitely more effective.
Good thing they blocked the
By Kinopio
Mon, 04/17/2023 - 3:34pm
Good thing they blocked the license plate number! Can’t have people seeing the non private information of a dumbass criminal driver!
Criminal?
By merlinmurph
Mon, 04/17/2023 - 6:04pm
How?
Question
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 04/17/2023 - 7:49pm
Why is it criminal to shoot a gun into the air but not to drive recklessly?
If it isn't, it should be.
Driving to endanger
By merlinmurph
Wed, 04/19/2023 - 9:17am
There are all sorts of potential charges, like driving to endanger, etc.
Of course, the driver has to be charged and it has to be proven....
Yes
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 04/19/2023 - 6:29pm
And driving to endanger is a misdemeanor.
Reckless driving [Allegedly ]
By peter
Tue, 04/18/2023 - 8:52am
Reckless driving. Allegedly of course.
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