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Drivers just flip over Roslindale
By adamg on Mon, 01/27/2020 - 11:01pm
Vicky Elias captured Roslindale's latest flipped car, on Poplar Street just past Beech on the way towards Hyde Park, shortly before 7 p.m. Apparently, the driver came out OK.
The crash raises the question: Is there some strange force in Roslindale that compels drivers to flip their cars, or are the locals just particularly good at taking photos of flipped cars?
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Road diet
Poplar St could really use a road diet or at least raised crosswalks by the Conley.
Road diet?
At this spot there are two travel lanes and two parking lanes. Are you suggesting it become a one way street?
Love how parking is apparently invioable
Yes, the road with two parking lanes would need a travel lane to be removed in order to have a road diet. There literally isn't anything else we could do here. God knows we can't stop people from storing their personal property on public land for something as useless as making people safer!
Okay
Let's take out the parking, thus making the street wider for cars. That'll slow them down.
That said, it should be noted that cars typically don't park on the street in this area (see the old discussion of the house by where this happened whose vehicles kind of sort of block the sidewalk when parked in the driveway.) Again, if the moving vehicles had to deal with parked cars, they'd slow down.
I'm suggesting it be engineered for slower driving
put up some posts like Walter St.
put in a raised sidewalk as suggested.
put in a timed light at the Conley, etc...
put in a bike lane.
It's too easy to drive fast on that street.
Those are some good ideas
But technically not part of a "road diet."
The current Conley light is actually really good for pedestrians. It turns fairly quickly. It's just a matter of the drivers paying attention to it (which to be fair the vast majority do.)
Looks bad
I hope the driver didn't drop their phone.
I can totally understand how
I can totally understand how this could happen what with E-5 so busy enforcing the traffic laws on Centre Street.
My vote
My vote is for them gravity gremlins
Spiny Shell
Somebody wanted to slow them down:
This section is a racetrack
This section is a racetrack without enough safe places to cross the street, especially when getting off the bus between Beech and Lodgehill. I tried a 311 ticket and they closed it saying there was a stop sign (nope...).
Maybe...
the roads are poorly designed and lead people to drive too fast? Nah, that's crazy talk.
My guess
Drivers assume they can just blast down Poplar from the light at Metropolitan to the light at Beech; in this case the driver probably didn’t have a red at the Beech light.
Regardless—and as someone who regularly uses the crosswalk at Cornell and Poplar with his kids—the city should do something to force a slower speed. I know people drive too fast there, and it’s stupid that nothing is done about it.
I still don't understand how
I still don't understand how a car can do that? Just flip over I mean.
it's not easy
steering with your chin while simultaneously eating a burrito with one hand and scrolling through Instagram with the other. then Netflix asks "are you still watching Friends?" and you have to lean to press "yes", drop the burrito, and suddenly you're lurching way over to the right and your car catches on something and flips over
a couple examples
Obviously bad driving, but not as dramatic as the movies make you think;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouEnwDeMaqY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TFdC-u4Mia4
The pictured car looks like
The pictured car looks like an SUV; if that’s the case, those are more likely than other cars to flip. They have a higher center of gravity, which leads them to flip more easily if the car is going relatively fast and then the driver quickly turns the wheel.