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Woman gets out of a ride-share car in the O'Neill Tunnel at rush hour, is promptly hit by another car
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Ride share drivers...
.... are notorious for letting their passengers out without regard to safety.
Reckless people...
...are notorious for getting out of cars without regard to their own safety
It's possible she was trying to escape
It's possible she was trying to escape a dangerous situation.
Ride share drivers are notorious for that as well. It's not common, but then, that's not what "notorious" means, is it?
She stayed on scene
The Globe said that it was a female driver of the car she was in and a male driver of the car that hit her. Both stayed on scene so that doesn't seem too likely.
Child locks not in use
The rideshare driver can't lock people into the car. She may have thought that she would be quicker to walk out of the tunnel - I saw someone do this last week.
Yeah, sorry, if someone
Yeah, sorry, if someone insists on getting out of my car where it is not safe to do so, I'm not going to stop them and risk getting accused of trying to abduct them or something.
I'll request that they wait until we get somewhere safe, but I'm not going to lock them in or anything.
Be sure that “safe” place...
... is not the bike lane or a crosswalk, please.
But
crosswalks are for pedestrians, and would the passenger not be a pedestrian at that point?
Ride share drivers are also notorious ...
... for blocking crosswalks.
You're preaching to the choir
You're preaching to the choir here. I'm also a bike commuter.
Be sure that “safe” place...
... is not the bike lane or a crosswalk, please.
How many bike lanes or a
How many bike lanes or a crosswalks in the tunnel?
Not enough.
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Well, now that vaping is banned
that's one sure way to contaminate your lungs.
LOL!
Sad but true.
Until we restrict the tunnel to evehicles, etc.
Local news sites
are so obnoxious. "Oh, you hit pause on that video we started playing automatically, but we're sure you really want to watch it so we're going to start playing it again repeatedly."
ABP
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Strange
The state police said this today:
So either MSP has no idea how ride share works or the driver and passenger agreed to not use the app and pay directly.
MA State Police being incompetent?
Unpossible!
Per today's paper:
"Top commanders resigned after ordering troopers to scrub embarrassing details from the arrest report of a judge’s daughter. Recruitment and promotion practices have come under fire following complaints of discrimination, racism, and retaliation.
Meanwhile, department officials have hid, destroyed, and lost track of records that could have exposed wrongdoing. A slew of troopers have been accused of breaking the law while both off- and on-duty, and the head of State Police payroll pleaded guilty to embezzling thousands of dollars from the agency.
The biggest scandal has included 46 troopers implicated in a widespread payroll fraud scheme, in which 10 have been criminally charged."
Pretty much a mix of bad people and good people* who did nothing when tons of their colleagues did the wrong thing repeatedly.
* so at best, 'meh' people.
From the article
“According to Uber, there is no log of the ride and they believe the driver could have been soliciting rides or driving on her own.”
And the answer is ...
See this interview with the driver - she says she felt sorry for the woman and agreed to drive her to Mattapan after the woman knocked on her window at Logan.
She was struck by a driver.
Shifting blame to the car is passé.