Closing Bell: Clinton Hill Crash
A reader sent in this photo of a car that crashed into a concrete planter this morning at around 8 a.m. on Dekalb Avenue between Hall and Washington.
A reader sent in this photo of a car that crashed into a concrete planter this morning at around 8 a.m. on Dekalb Avenue between Hall and Washington.
I think speed restrictions are important and I was a little flippant here, but the speed bumps on Clermont are unbelievable, not like anything I had ever seen, so HUGE. I am a very safe driver and naturally slow down on residential streets, but don’t see why one has to risk the whole underside of one’s car. They should be a certain depth, not 5 feet long and almost a foot high.
Minard, I agree it looks like it was sideswiped.
This means one of two things on that corner – either the crashed vehicle was jumping the light on Hall & DeKalb and and was plowed into by a speeding car barreling down DeKalb OR a car was speeding down DeKalb to run the Hall St. light while the crashed vehicle was making a legal turn. In either case, the lateral force spun it into the planter at too high a rate of speed.
I learned last night that plans are in place to add a light at Waverly, but I’m not sure that’s going to address speeding problems on DeKalb adequately. We’ll see.
We really need another second means of keeping speeding vehicles out of the right hand lane on DeKalb. Maybe we have to allow parking in that lane in the morning and the congestion alone will slow the traffic.
As a regular driver, I’m all for speed bumps. 20mph on residential roads is reasonable; too many cats, kids and dogs.
It sounds like no one commenting has ever been in an accident. The car was clearly sideswiped by the way it is damaged. Perfectly good drivers are sometimes involved in accidents you know. It can happen to any one of us.
That driver is clearly an ass. Doing more than 15-20 mph on NYC streets is asking for trouble. Kids, pets, other cars, all kinds of stuff can pop up in the road, and you have no time to react, and end up doing what that idiot in the picture did. There’s just no need for it. Wherever he thought he was getting in a hurry is nothing but a distant memory now, as he thinks about getting a new ride, and possibly getting his health back.
This is very serious issue, thank god there were no pedestrians near by if not they would have got injured very badly.
“And you seriously think people ought to be able to go faster than 15 MPH in a school zone?”
Yeah
And you seriously think people ought to be able to go faster than 15 MPH in a school zone?
We don’t need no stinkin’ speed bumps either. There are two on Clermont between DeKalb and Myrtle now — two — and they are huge. When they first put them in, I misjudged how HUGE they were and driving at the modest speed of 20 miles per hour, I put a nice hold in my manifold and broke the metal rod which holds the whole contraption up.