Once again, a building in Roslindale Square unable to get out of the way of a car

Or a seat belt

This is a national problem. At least we talk about it and recognize it as a problem when it happens here, as it goes unremarked upon most everywhere else.

This area has already been narrowed to a single lane where in the past there were two.

What is apparently not known is whether the driver had a health issue, swerved due to something in the road, had a mechanical issue, or similar.

When the car went into the barbershop back in December (on Corinth) social media was ablaze with speculations advanced as fact, as to what happened and why. The same seems to be happening here, and on Twitter where this came from. Police report?

From the looks of the photo, and I am not an STB inspector by any means, the damage to the front end is minimal suggesting a low speed collision. Today's cars are greatly fiberglass and thin aluminum which buckles and fails with as little as a swift kick. Also at the rear of the car in the street there is additional debris that appears to be tail light parts and similar. This suggests that this was a collision of at least 2 cars, followed by the white car either losing control or overcompensating resulting in the impact (low speed) with the building.

There are 2 lanes of traffic merging here and that's a rather dicey result from the narrowing to one land. Sometimes a fix doesn't get the desired results, and just changes the problem. Near misses at this location are all but a daily occurrence.

There were no improvements blocked here. But that entire block is badly in need of a re-design. Cars tend to speed up as they come around the turn from Washington Street, and the view is obstructed by parked cars as well as a blinding effect from the sun at sunset. The area between the Taft Hill parking lot and Adams Park is a major pedestrian crossing but includes a very wide expanse of pavement and lacks a stop sign (or light). Ideally, Washington Street would be returned to its original two-way configuration; Poplar could be turned into a pedestrian block; and the turn from Washington toward South/Belgrade would be a right angle rather than a curve. It's only a matter of time before a pedestrian is hit in that intersection.

There were some minor pedestrian safety improvements like bollards put in this stretch a few years back since it's a high foot traffic area. Some business owners complained and demanded their removal, which didn't happen.