Almost hit by a car that was hit by a car…

[jrenaut]

Glad you’re okay. I’m always amazed at how little people seem to know about traffic laws (not to mention common sense). They all did the same drivers ed class that I did, right?

[dcv]

glad you didn’t get hit, sorry we missed you at the races

[Arlingtonrider]

That sounds very scary. I’m glad you’re ok. When I was driving back on I-66 there was a very long line of cars just sitting in the right lane waiting to get off at that exit. Very bad intersection for a light to be out!

[Vicegrip]

I rolled through right around 1:15 and the lights were out while a crew was working on the control box. No cops lots of cars including some that were cycle and runner friendly and stopped to let a small group from each side cross.

Glad you made it to the next level of Frogger unscathed.

[vvill]

Glad you made it through safe. I once saw a vehicle [accidentally] attempt to turn into the W&OD (going east) there while I was riding up to the intersection. The driver was slowly backing out after being about a car’s length into the trail.

[consularrider]

I rode through there at 10:30 am, didn’t see any evidence of crash debris. There was an Arlington County crew working on the box on the southwest corner of the intersection. My thought was how bad the drivers are around here since every time they encounter a signal that’s out, they forget they are supposed to treat it as a four-way stop. You’d think that after all the power outages this year and several news reports and articles about this rule of the road, more people would get with the program. One of the complicating factors was that the light was not completely out, for at least Lee Highway it was blinking yellow. Of course for those headed west on the W&OD, you can’t see what the light is for east bound Fairfax Drive and the walk signal was out (my continual complaint about this intersectio along with that the left turn light from Lee Highway to Fairfax/Washington should be a demand signal since there is rarely anyone waiting to turn left). Things were back to normal when I rode back through at 3:30 pm.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@consularrider 37046 wrote:

I rode through there at 10:30 am, didn’t see any evidence of crash debris. There was an Arlington County crew working on the box on the southwest corner of the intersection. My thought was how bad the drivers are around here since every time they encounter a signal that’s out, they forget they are supposed to treat it as a four-way stop. You’d think that after all the power outages this year and several news reports and articles about this rule of the road, more people would get with the program. One of the complicating factors was that the light was not completely out, for at least Lee Highway it was blinking yellow. Of course for those headed west on the W&OD, you can’t see what the light is for east bound Fairfax Drive and the walk signal was out (my continual complaint about this intersectio along with that the left turn light from Lee Highway to Fairfax/Washington should be a demand signal since there is rarely anyone waiting to turn left). Things were back to normal when I rode back through at 3:30 pm.

Happened at about 11:20am, based on the time stamp on my 911 call. Interesting that some of the drivers had yellow blinkies, as this definitely could’ve contributed to the crash. As I was clearing the intersection, I heard one of the maintenance guys calling to request traffic control…too bad they didn’t do that to begin with.

[rcannon100]

So this would be an argument for “How Fast Can Google go Mainstream with Those Driverless Cars” – that would have sensors that should avoid this type of out and out stupidity.

Eric Schmidt was asked about whether he was prepared for the first driverless car accident. He said last year there was 30,000 car accident fatalities in the US. He says through the use of driverless cars, his hope is that they can reduce that number by half. Its not whether there will be accidents – his point – its whether the number of accidents can be dramatically reduced. And his argument is that hopefully it can be.

Just think – no more illegal U turns on PA as the taxis will all be driverless??? (see Blade Runner)

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[Dickie]

Holy crap, that’s a white knuckle experience for sure…. being a spectator to your own fate has to be longest few seconds ever! So glad you are OK.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

It was probably your fault. It’s always our fault.

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