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Pedestrian trying to cross Memorial Drive hit by pickup
By adamg on Sun, 03/01/2020 - 6:14pm
State Police report a woman walked out from between two cars on Memorial Drive outbound at Ames Street and was hit by a pickup truck, around 8:15 a.m.
Upon arrival, responders extricated the 74-year-old woman from under a parked sedan that was not involved in the incident. The woman was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital with serious injuries. The driver of the pickup, a 2019 Ford F150, remained on scene, was identified as a 48-year-old man from Medford, was not injured.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that the pedestrian walked into the travel lane from in between two parked vehicles, directly in front of the pickup.
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Crossing Memorial Drive is...
... hazardous regardless where you cross.
You really haven’t got a chance if you’re hit by a pick up, Jeep or SUV driver.
How awful for this woman.
You forgot to mention Prius
https://www.universalhub.com/2018/prius-driver-sought-cambridge-hit-and-...
It's not a political thing,
It's not a political thing, Republican. SUVs are probably more dangerous to pedestrians than sedans: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/05/09/study-links-rise-of-suvs-to-the-p...
People drive disgustingly
People drive disgustingly fast on memorial drive. They don’t wait for the blinking crosswalk lights. It really showcases an ugly ness in people
Just imagine
If there was a state agency which was tasked with enforcing the speed limit on Memorial Drive, which is 35, even though 50 or 55 seems to be a common speed. And imagine if this agency had a bunch of radar guns, and the authority to write citations for people driving cars caught speeding. And imagine if this agency spent most of its time falsifying overtime instead of doing its job. What a world that would be!
(Longer-term, I've written that we should really rebuild Mem Drive as a single-carriageway, which would be much less conducive to speeding, but someone Important driving a car might be slightly inconvenienced by that, so I doubt it will ever happen.)
So you want more fatalities?
I'm not sure you have a good understand of urban carriageways
I feel sorry for this woman.
As someone who has nearly hit SEVERAL PEOPLE WALKING IN BETWEEN PARKED CARS RATHER THAN WALK THE EXTRA 5-10 FEET TO THE CROSSWALK, Massachusetts really has to do a better job of ticketing jay-walkers. In no other state I have visited do pedestrians feel so entitled to cross any where, any time, against a light, etc. It's dangerous for them (pedestrians) and drivers.
How are all the comments on
How are all the comments on this story about bad drivers? I mean, wow, I think there should be WAY more traffic enforcement than there is, but this story is about a person who stepped out from between two parked cars directly into traffic. It's terrible that this woman was injured, but this isn't a legal or safe way to cross a street. For those saying she had "no chance" against a pickup truck, she absolutely did - she could have crossed safely at a crosswalk or light, instead of stepping in front of a moving vehicle in a travel lane from between two parked cars. If she had been hit in a crosswalk, I'd be railing about the driver with the rest of you. But in terms of complaining about drivers, this just isn't the hill to die on, folks.
Parked Cars
She could have been going to her parked car which presumably wasn't parked in a crosswalk.
I don't blame the driver as much as I do bad road design.
Depending on the crosswalk
Depending on the crosswalk and street, as a pedestrian I can't always see over certain high profile vehicles that are parked right up to the crosswalk to see oncoming traffic so that I know it is safe to cross. Not all crosswalks have traffic signals so pedestrians are forced to rely on drivers yielding to us in the crosswalk. If I can't see you the driver because a tall parked vehicle is blocking your ability to see me in the crosswalk and my ability to see you, then the other option is to walk in between 2 parked vehicles which are shorter so that I can see oncoming traffic and therefore be able to cross when there's a lull in traffic.
Not saying this is what happened to this unfortunate woman, but if you walk regularly in the city chances are you have encountered this problem.
There used to be a crosswalk
There used to be a crosswalk there but they moved it East to the end of Ames Street in the last few months.