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Head-on crash between motorist and Boston cop on Centre Street in West Roxbury
By adamg on Mon, 07/17/2023 - 12:20pm
A motorist and a Boston Police officer collided head on on Centre Street in front of the post office around 11:30 a.m.
The motorist suffered cuts to the head. Two ambulances were summoned. The officer was able to radio the crash in.
Police shut Centre Street in both directions between Maple and Corey streets.
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Lucky, I guess
Sounds like there weren't life threatening injuries. I'm surprised there aren't more head-ons in that stretch, considering the lanes are too narrow for a lot of the vehicles that use it.
This is a good reminder that the increased safety provided by removing the passing lanes will benefit motorists as well as pedestrians and cyclists.
Road diet?
Yet the residents there will still vehemently oppose any attempt at creating a safer stretch of road for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.
The Venn diagram
Of people who oppose the road diet and who claim to "back the blue" is a perfect circle.
Yet will any of them say "boy, if there was a safer, slower road, this police officer wouldn't be in the hospital"?
No, the only thing that makes police safe is more money and bigger guns.
Road diets are so Marxist.
Road diets are so Marxist. They don't like people who study a problem, follow the data, and suggest a solution based on their findings, because then there's someone telling them that they know better than them, and that's elitist.
And
They have yet to present anything within hailing distance of a valid, reasonable argument against it.
Prove me wrong.
Was one of them heading the wrong way?
Was one of them heading the wrong way? If so, any info on which one?
That's an excellent question
Of course, some decide that this is a prime example of why the road should have 3 lanes without knowing the exact circumstances. If one vehicle just went over into the oncoming lane, no change in the layout would have helped. If one vehicle was turning when the other went by, having the turning lane most likely would have helped avoid the crash.
I have an open mind, both as far as the crash and the overall issue on the road goes.
The idea of the road diet is
The idea of the road diet is to slow drivers down, which makes crashes like this both less likely (because people have more time to react to someone swerving into the oncoming lane) and less likely to cause injury.
You missed something
Actually, the proposed layout would pretty much eliminate this, because there would be the buffer lane between the two flows of traffic. But I agree with you that we don't know enough. In addition to the two possibilities you've presented, it's worth breaking down the in to the wrong direction of traffic question. There are at least three possibilities for that, which are:
Of these, I think only the first could possibly not be addressed by the road diet. But even that one, probably would, because the police car would have used the buffer lane, rather than the oncoming traffic lane.
no info when a cop is involved
When a police officer is involved in an accident in West Roxbury, whether on duty or off, cause or victim, you will get no info on anything. From the off duty cop who ran a light and hit a kid by the library to the cop and family who were pretty much run over when that pickup truck that jumped the parking lot wall, to any other event pretty much forever.
When a cop is involved, we get nothing.