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E Line couldn't get far due to a damaged car
By adamg on Tue, 05/16/2023 - 5:22pm
RadRebe shows us the scene on Huntington Avenue around 4 p.m. when a crash left one car dead on the E Line tracks, blocking the trolleys. The T advised riders to take the 39 instead.
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This is as bad as South Bay
This is as bad as South Bay drivers.
Bad enough that these drivers had to…
…. crash into each other. Then they had to go screw things up for responsible public transportation riders too.
the only thing disabled about that car is its owner
That's not a dead car.
That's a car driven by someone who thinks that because their car has some bent sheet metal, it must remain exactly where it is for the crash reconstruction team that surely is about to arrive, any second now, to set up their 3d scanners, drones, etc...identify the perpetrator via hacking into nearby security cameras and saying "ENHANCE"! several times, then putting out an APB, whereupon a plucky detective and their wacky new-to-them partner will spot the perp, jump into the detective's very expensive/sporty personal car, and chase the perp through the streets of Boston, wildly firing their glocks at the baddies, because damaging a white woman's Toyota Corolla means they are unhinged madmen, clearly an imminent threat to public safety.
People: if you get into a MINOR crash, MOVE YOUR DAMN CAR out of the way of traffic. Take a couple of quick cell phone pics if you must, but stop being a narcissistic menace to everyone else.
Don't be ableist
Using "disabled" to insult someone is not acceptable.
Your Armchair is Clairvoyant
WHOH DUDE - that's even more CSI than anything you mentioned!
Yeah, you can push a car out of the way ... maybe. If you can control it - brakes broken, etc.
But I'll lay odds that she was told not to by a first responder, because that is now what they do. People get hurt and hit pushing cars out of the way, particularly damaged ones. Some idiot speeds around the corner staring at his phone and several people get maimed and killed when the car and the pushers get hit. This isn't 1985 when it took a long time to get a cop out in certain parts of the city if one ever showed.
We are also not seeing the 360 view of the car, either. Does your armchair have x-ray vision, too? When some dimwit in a rental crossed the yellow line and smashed my son's car, this view of it would have looked fine. The car couldn't move because the other side was mangled (he took evasive action to avoid head-on) and the rear axel was snapped from the impact. There was no "pushing it out of the way". He actually asked the cops as he picks things up and puts them down for fun, and they told him not touch it.
Minor crash
Couldn't they put it in neutral and just get a couple of people to push it out of the way?
Not safe
Here's the current advice on what to do: https://www.lopriore.com/blog/car-accident-massachusetts-complete-guide/
Yeah, its from an insurer but what they teach in driver's ed isn't much different.
I don't think that really negates what I said
If you take out the "vehicle running" part of your link what are you left with? If nobody is hurt and there are people on scene who can easily physically roll the car to a non or less obstructive spot then it still seems like a no-brainer to "Stop and Get out of the Road" as your link advises.
(obviously a disabled vehicle on a lane in the highway would be a very different scenario)
Green line needs a cowcatcher
That train could push the car out of the way, no problem.
South Huntington
This is on South Huntington Ave
https://www.google.com/maps/place/51+S+Huntington+Ave,+Boston,+MA+02130/@42.3308529,-71.11166,3a,90y,270.98h,88.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1PApjga4oORgMZ2A1bIZhA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m7!3m6!1s0x89e3799afecaf7b7:0x6044aa5a0489d7ab!8m2!3d42.3308113!4d-71.111824!10e5!16s%2Fg%2F11cppl902b
My son & I cleared the track in similar situation in 2010
from my Facebook post 4/17/2010:
"Just helped a mom in a car accident on S Huntington; documented the conditions; moved the car off the train tracks and cleared up a traffic jam; and jumped on the formerly stuck train with my son since we were now late."
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159704938267762&set=a.434280942761