Posted on 07/01/2016 4:03:45 AM PDT by Diogenesis
Cops alarmed by increase in roadwork site crashes
Nearly 900 reckless drivers crashed through a work zone
on a Bay State road or highway last year ...
a 35-percent spike that has the state police colonel
stepping up patrols amid fears the deadly wrecks are
only going to climb ...
State police also handed out 529 work-zone driving
citations last year ...
McKeon said he can’t pinpoint an exact reason for the spike
[BUT later noted]
... The latest crash came around 3:10 a.m. yesterday,
when police say 29-year-old Maria Nunes-Daveiga
— whose driving record spans four pages and 38 entries —
drunkenly drove her 2007 Jeep into the back
of a Bristol County sheriff’s van ... on Route 24
... “It’s dangerous for the detail officers
that are out there.
It’s dangerous for the construction workers”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Translation: Need money!
“The problem is not just the lanes going down from three to one, but also people texting, fixing their makeup and reading the paper,” he added.
...
Among the victims of the hellish highway trend this week was Thomas O’Day, a highway worker and father of six, who was struck and killed in Medford early Tuesday while picking up cones at an Interstate 93 job site that did not include a detail cop — a fact he complained about hours earlier in a chilling Facebook post.
Facebook nation. Texting highway workers being killed by texting drivers.
Take away the construction sites and allow lemonade stands and voila !
Cops baffled by increased lemonade stand car accidents
Here, let me help ya. The government is ripping up roads everywhere. They are shrinking car lanes, inserting sidewalk jetties, roundabouts, and bending straight roads all under the guise of "Smart Growth," a socialists dream They call it "traffic calming." It's real purpose is to frustrate your driving experience to encourage you to use public transportation or use bicycles. More roadwork equals more road construction accidents.
1. Driver error.
2. Poorly laid out work zones.
I'm sure the first one is the biggest factor by a wide margin. Studies consistently show that as a nation we have become worse drivers ... at the same time we are increasingly distracted (sometimes out of our control) behind the wheel.
What you said.
I’m pretty sure work-zone accidents nationwide are declining. Seems likely Mass. is leaving out critical info.
—Dave Barry
How much of the changing 'average' is due to the skyrocketing number of drivers who did not spend time driving on American roads until they had already become entitled adults with a bad attitude toward America in general?
Believe it or not, I think the cars are as much a problem as the drivers. Cars have become so comfortable and advanced, and have so many automated features in them, that they can easily be operated by someone who isn’t paying full attention to what they are doing.
Stupidity is the number one killer.
I see alot of idiotic driving commuting every day. I know you have soccer game to get to but the rest of us have places to go also.
I remember when accidents there were blamed on the number of orange cones, then they used orange barrels.
Believe someone wrote an article about the cost of barrels that were being destroyed.
Between the Big Dig, 495 and 128, the cost of oil probably went up $2.00 per barrel back then.
As a pedestrian you learn to trust no one’s driving. Certain demographics will try to run you down, or try to make you believe they will. Puts a skip in your step.
Maria Nunes-Daveiga Well that might be a clue right there. Sanctuary state, illegals driving drunk = more crashes.
Texting.
As a pedestrian you learn to trust no one’s driving. Certain demographics will try to run you down, or try to make you believe they will. Puts a skip in your step.
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That same demographic, as pedestrians, at the blink of an eye will step out in front of you, as if they own the road.
Go ahead, hit one, they have their lawyers on speed dial.
when police say 29-year-old Maria Nunes-Daveiga
— whose driving record spans four pages and 38 entries —
drunkenly drove her 2007 Jeep into the back
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Deportation is the cure
Don’t let drunk driving illegal aliens back in to drive drunk again
This one was drunk. Drunks have always been very dangerous drivers, especially the hardcore ones that drive early morning.
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