And this is a prime example of why Terminal Carbrain on a societal scale is TERRIBLE for designing cities. Forcing everyone to drive, instead of using Transit or even walking, DIRECTLY ENCOURAGES behavior that leads to shit like this.

There's an Andy Warhol print of a photograph of a body hanging out of the window a crashed ambulance.

Hope they all use the same insurance company :)

My headcanon is they are all so stressed from the bullshit going on in the world that they all needed a striff drink to go with the morning coffee

[Yakety Sax intensifies]

Burnout 2: Point of Impact

helicopter surveying the scene

Congratulations! You won a silver medal!

Continue?

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You could of course keep detailed statistics about what kind of crashes and where and causes and, based off that data, redesign each intersection that has a lot of risks, making your city safer.

This is what they've been doing in the Netherlands, redesigning and rebuilding intersections all over the place over the past 30-40 odd years

Most of them are roundabouts now, but all of them got better and safer and the risks of being in traffic have gone measurably down

Then there is the United States of America. USA! USA! USA!

I can hear the yakity sax from here

"Yo dawg..."

Yall ever think about this is what it takes for a life altering car crash to even make the news anymore yet news will happily report about people's feelings about crime rates even as crime rates have been way down for decades?

Crashception

That poor person's neck lmao

There seems to be a recurring problem.

Crashception

Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

Was hoping it was an area in LA I knew, but nah. I've seen a ton of close calls with emergency vehicles though, distracted driving seems worse than ever but what I don't get is how they don't hear the sirens. Are vehicles more sound insulated now or something?

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2024/06/05/exposing-pseudoscience-traffic-engineering

A good follow on Mastodon about traffic design

@drtcombs@triangletoot.party

call Ambumblance!

It's LA, nobody drives there, they all just sit in traffic.

Crashception

Safest California driving experience

This is straight outta Simpsons

Beginning to think cars might be bad

This made me feel so patriotic o7

This is one of the most backwards stories I've read in a long time. I just don't understand how this could happen lol it's like a Family Guy episode

BOTH were the fault of LAFD... I guarantee.

Lights & siren. Without a stop at red lights. Extremely common cause of these intersection accidents. Dumbass drivers should be fired!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PRpQc17mgg