Please Drive Safely! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Kuan · #1 07-09-2004, 09:03 AM

http://www.ulrp.com/photos/accident/graphics/carwreck.mpg

****in' Hell!

blackmercedes · #2 07-09-2004, 09:20 AM

I don't think the pedestrian made it.

yal · #3 07-09-2004, 09:57 AM

More like...look before, while, and after you cross. These cars are getting much faster these days and the training to drive hasn't changed in decades.

Kuan · #4 07-09-2004, 10:34 AM

Yal you're not trying to say that the pedestrian was even a little bit responsible right? I thought so

Don't run lights. Period. I'm all for those cameras.

G-Benz · #5 07-09-2004, 11:04 AM

One idiotic move turned what appeared to be a normal event into a catastrophe!

Marcb · #6 07-09-2004, 11:13 AM

WOW! Those cameras are very useful. It amazes me that the guy didn't even hit the brakes until the very last moment.

yal · #7 07-09-2004, 12:24 PM

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Originally posted by Kuan
Yal you're not trying to say that the pedestrian was even a little bit responsible right? I thought so

Don't run lights. Period. I'm all for those cameras.

No no no the pedestrian was not responsible in anyway shape or form, I'm just saying that for his sake he should have been looking. Even if you have the right of way or are in a perfectly legal right morons can end up doing things that could kill you. In a main intersection like that you need to be alert for your sake.

We have a road here in NY that has been nicknamed the Boulevard of Death. Cars run red lights on it and kill people like its a PS2 game

Pedestrians cross the road and get caught in the middle island, cars jump the island and mow them down after being hit by red light runners.

You are clearly within your rights to stand or cross when you are supposed to, but are you really going to bet your life on the moron in the car following the rules?

Not me, when I cross I am looking left and right like the lights are green everywhere, call me paranoid. iT always amazes me when I see people starting to cross before the cars have come to a full stop.

G-Benz · #8 07-09-2004, 02:02 PM

So who was the red light runner...the PT Cruiser that blasted through, or the one that got hit and tumbled over the pedestrian?

yal · #9 07-09-2004, 02:18 PM

Tough one. I would say the PT. Judging by its momentum I would say the other car accelerated towards a red and just as they were arriving the light went green and they proceeded through at a high rate of speed mind you. But then that would mean the pedestrian was crossing against a flashing red or red, but he doesn't seem to be in a hurry.

CJ · #10 07-09-2004, 04:00 PM

Unfortunately I see stupid stuff like this on a daily basis. Here is one that happened yesterday>

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3506720/detail.html

Kuan · #11 07-09-2004, 04:45 PM

I swear at least 90% of all accidents are avoidable.

I think the PT was the which ran the light. All other cars seemed to have been coming to a stop on the other side of the intersection and there was a car idling in what seems to be the left turn lane.

Maybe the light was "unfair."

Kuan · #12 07-09-2004, 04:59 PM

I found the newslink.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/carcrash01.asp

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The accident seen in the video occurred at 12:40 p.m. on 23 May 2004 at the intersection of Third Street and Edwin C. Moses Boulevard in Dayton, Ohio. Betty J. Hayslip, 75, of New Lebanon, driving a PT Cruiser, ran a red light and struck a Suburu driven by Albertina L. Walker, 41, of Dayton. The collision caused the Subaru to roll over one and a half times; it came to rest upside-down and in the process crashed into pedestrian Scott Tegtmeyer, 42, of Dayton.

Tegtmeyer, who was crossing the street in the same direction as the PT Cruiser and had just reached the curb on the opposite side, can be seen in the video breaking into a desperate run as the collided vehicles bear down on him. He could not react quickly enough, however, and the Subaru rolled atop of him, dragging him several feet across the intersection. Although medics who found Tegtmeyer's bloodied body amidst a sea of broken glass initially pronounced him dead at the scene, he began breathing while in transit with paramedics and was fully resuscitated by doctors. (As of 2 June 2004, Tegtmeyer was reported as being in serious condition at Miami Valley Hospital.)

Don't jaywalk either.

TX76513 · #13 07-09-2004, 05:34 PM

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Originally posted by yal

You are clearly within your rights to stand or cross when you are supposed to, but are you really going to bet your life on the moron in the car following the rules? Not me, when I cross I am looking left and right like the lights are green everywhere, call me paranoid. iT always amazes me when I see people starting to cross before the cars have come to a full stop.

Yeah Dead Right

#14 07-09-2004, 05:36 PM

Hopefully, the 75 year old had her license permanently revoked.

Kuan · #15 07-09-2004, 05:40 PM

I'd probably be scared ****less to drive anymore.