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December 31st, 2015, 11:03 AM
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Name: Hernan
Location: Florida
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Miami at night: wrong-way accident
A horrific accident happened in Miami December 30.
It is just the second of the same type on I-95 this month! The video of the moment of impact is very horrifying. The truck came from the left around a curve. They must have had little time to see it, there was no way to evade that, either in a car or a bike. The attached picture shows the intersection where the pick-up truck took the wrong turn into I-95. Notice how easy for an impaired driver is to miss the two "No entry" signs and to go the wrong way, specially at night. I know that tens of thousands of cars use these roads and that these accidents are exceptional, but I wonder if anyone knows of a physical device that is able to stop an impaired driver from doing what the truck's driver did? http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...230-story.html http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/5...363804701.html
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December 31st, 2015, 11:59 AM
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Name: Jono
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That's a poorly designed intersection.
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December 31st, 2015, 12:18 PM
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December 31st, 2015, 01:46 PM
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Name: Al
Location: Orange County, CA
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Wow. That intersection is terrible. Extremely sad.
Unless the driver was definitely impaired, in which case a ignition interlock switch might work, that intersection is just a disaster waiting to happen. |
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