photo credit: Lynne Cheney
One person suffered major injuries after a rollover crash on westbound Ygnacio Valley Rd. near Oak Grove Rd. in Walnut Creek on Tuesday afternoon.
The person had to be extricated from the vehicle, and was transported to a local hospital.
The collision occurred in the 1-o’clock hour.
In a hurry to get no where fast!
People these days don’t know how to drive, drive way too fast, and drive cars that go way way faster than a car needs to.
Oh yes, and add to it that there is zero traffic law enforcement these days, and that pretty much most drivers have no respect for traffic laws and other drivers on the road.
Thinking of this individual.
I didn’t see the accident, however I watched a police car and ambulance have one heck of a time traveling east on Ygnacio Valley Road toward the accident. Sirens and flashing lights have no affect on some drivers. No attempt to clear a lane.
A while later I saw the ambulance, sirens and lights flashing, racing back toward John Muir Hospital. At Heather Farm a Honda made a suicidal left turn right in front of the ambulance. A drivers license is way too easy to get.
Oh yeah sure rush hour traffic east bound on YVR and you expect a lane to clear out, where exactly is three lanes of bumper to bumper traffic supposed to go? Some dispatcher didn’t dispatch correctly they should have brought the emergency vehicles westbound on YVR instead.
This accident happened right after lunch time not during the commute.
YVR is still 3 lanes of bumper to bumper at lunch, I still call it rush hour.
When all the lights are red from the fire station to the accident traffic is backed up with nowhere for anybody to go so get over it already, there were two other fire stations available coming from the other direction with alot less traffic.
Dispatch doesn’t tell them how to get to places.
My wife works dispatch for a local Sheriff’s Dept (not CCC). They don’t give directions on how to get places.
Dispatch provides a location, not directions to the location.
I was caught half way dow the hill in the middle of YVR going west bound. Everything was at a full stop as it took 1/2 hour to get cars to u-turn at the bottom of the hill. YVR has deep drainage culvert in the middle in the steep hill side. No place for vehicles to drive buy or make easy u-turns. Traffic was light during that time of day. Not sure how this happened. Maybe a speeder or a distracted driver.
The license testing is very standard, that is true. However, law enforcement has the ability to cite, arrest and even refer these bad drivers to be retested and take away the license on the spot. Law enforcement has these powers against this serious problem. Treat Blvd has become a race track. So much so, they finally stopped planting trees and put in bushes in the center divide approaching Cherry Ln. It looks like cities landscaping now is just a way to admit they know the city is not going to enforce recklessness.
You get less traction in the rain.
Text and drive equals crash bang boom.
That’s not just a rollover. That is multiple rollovers. Yikes! Ts and Ps
There could be one hundred different reasons, driver could have swerved for a squirrel… so what?
Why all the pointless guessing?
Let’s all just go a little slower, drive sensibly and try to keep the greasy side down.
Use that picture for signs on Ygnacio Valley Road, caption, “Bad Drivers Do Somersaults”. Crazy how many accidents happen in that area. Gotta run that red light cause they are important people.
Where that happened the roadway is extremely rough and bumpy and in need of repaving… the city of WC has repeatedly put this on their “deferred maintenance” list and even now it’s not scheduled for repaving. Going at speed limit (not exceeding) brings a very rough & bumpy ride, couple that with rain – a disaster waiting to happen. Maybe the city of WC will finally take notice.
My bet is a cell phone was involved. A couple was just killed in Seattle as they went to pick up their children at school when a driver going the other way reached for his cell phone and crossed the line. Put your cell phone in the glove compartment and leave it there until you can safely pull over and text the person back.
I guess they missed the drivers ed class that said “Shiny side up and rubber side down”
hope they ain’t too badly beat up, “permanent reminders of temporary insanity”