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Comm. Ave. ain't big enough for the both of them

Car crash on Commonwealth Avenue in Allston

Zef shows us the aftermath of a head-on crash on the outbound side of Commonwealth Avenue near Allston Street (Allston's vortex of doom, of course), around 10:45 p.m.

Both outbound lanes blocked by police cruiser. One inbound lane taken up by fire trucks.

UPDATE: Zef reports that one outbound driver, impatient at the delays, tried to get around the scene by driving on the inbound side of Comm. Ave. - where he was promptly chased and stopped by police.

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Brings back memories of when I lived in the top-floor corner apartment at Commonwealth and Walbridge. I had a front row seat to the Bermuda Triangle of Comm Ave. There were so many accidents there, after awhile we stopped noticing.

I get that the carriage lanes, main traffic lanes, and T tracks make for an inherently confusing situation no matter how well labeled, but that intersection is so awful it's absolutely negligent that the city hasn't bothered to fix it. I moved into that apartment in 2011 and nothing has changed.

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Yeah, It's *unbelievable* that the BTD hasn't installed keep-right and do-not-enter signs at such a confusing intersection.

I'm pretty sure the accident happened here: https://goo.gl/maps/F7URLEGc34m

When a road with a median has no signs, drivers can probably figure out which side to drive on. But what about when there's 3 medians?

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So glad the police were already on the scene to stop that person trying to cause version 2.0 of the same crash.

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"WUT R LANES!?!?"

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The problem is that Comm Ave is too big. Drivers treat it like a racetrack, and the result is this.

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Nope. Treating it like a racetrack was not the cause of this accident. It was a driver confused by a confusing road layout with no signs, who went the wrong way.

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The driver turned into the outbound Comm Ave lanes while presumably trying to take the inbound ones, but he also took them at a high enough speed that neither he nor the other driver could avoid each other.

Also, just a couple of weeks ago there was another accident at the Scottfield Rd opening that was entirely due to speeding. An SUV was coming down Scottfield to merge into the outbound lanes, when an inbound white sedan came barreling down the hill and T-boned the SUV hard enough to push it a yard or two and blow out the tires on the other side. It was a minor miracle that no one was hurt, but the front of the sedan was smashed all the way in. The combination of the downhill curve and the open median to allow Scottfield/side-lane traffic to merge onto Comm should be enough to deter speeders, but there's usually at least one loud honk or tire screech between Scottfield Rd and Allston St per night.

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