I was out of town, but I received a detailed email from my good neighbor, along with the photo included here. (Thank you Mike.) The driver was a young man driving east. Another car hit his car. See photo. That's about all I know. The accident was reported. If you want details, see the police department.
As far as I am concerned, all that matters is that there was another accident at the corner of Playhouse Lane and Route 212, one week after the first one I wrote about. That's just too many.Since I started this blog two months ago, people have been talking about this intersection. Bushes have been razed, no parking signs have gone up in the wrong places, no parking signs have been moved, the county planning board has stated its concern about the traffic at this particular point in Ulster County, and RUPCO has engaged the State Department of Transportation to study its (weak) study showing that all is right with the world.
But all is not right down at the corner. What IS right is that people are opening their eyes, recording photographs, taking statements, and writing letters. People are calculating how many MORE cars RUPCO's project will inject into an already horribly unsafe intersection, and imagining how much more hazardous this place will be, and they do not like what they imagine.
Yes, accidents happen. But no, a housing development that will surely increase danger in an already dangerous intersection is an accident that we do not have to let happen to our town.
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Have a safe and happy new year's eve.
(and a little safety tip: stay away from you know where.)
The driver of the blue car above was driving his grandfather' car well below the speed limit when another vehicle backed into him.
ReplyDeleteHe was very relieved when i told him about this blog that shows how this intersection is unsafe because he wanted to show it to his grandfather and his insurance company.
-MIke Kramer