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[Mike K.]

as it is 5 years from now we are going to have wheat growing in that river valley.

 

It's already a literal fruit orchard along some sections of that track from railroad workers chucking remnants of their lunches out the windows.

[Victoria Watcher]

dash-cam video from abbotsford truck crash.  very dramatic.

 

https://www.nanaimob...-in-abbotsford/

 

clearly the pick-up truck was more worried about making a turn as the light turned red than he was about oncoming through traffic on the yellow/red.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 11 February 2019 - 03:35 PM.

[MarkoJ]

dash-cam video from abbotsford truck crash.  very dramatic.

 

https://www.nanaimob...-in-abbotsford/

 

clearly the pick-up truck was more worried about making a turn as the light turned red than he was about oncoming through traffic on the yellow/red.

 

Yea wtf was the pick-up thinking with a semi coming? 

 

Semi driver running a super stale yellow poor decision making too but less at fault.

[Mike K.]

🚔One to Hospital After Single Vehicle Collision At Gas Station🚔

Victoria, BC- One man went to hospital after the vehicle that he was in collided with a gas pump at a gas station last night.

Patrol officers responded to a monitored BC Emergency Health Services call for a single vehicle collision into a gas pump at a gas station at the corner of Fairfield Road and St. Charles Street just after 6 p.m. last night. Paramedics had already transported the man to hospital when officers arrived.

The initial investigation indicates that the man suffered a medical event while driving. His passenger was able to slow the vehicle by reaching over and activating the emergency brake. While the vehicle and the gas pump suffered significant damage, there was no fire due to the quick actions of gas station staff, safety measures in place at the pump, and the quick response by the Victoria Fire Department, BC Emergency Health Services Paramedics and officers.

[Nparker]

This could have been a terrible incident. Credit to all those whose swift action prevented a catastrophe.

[DustMagnet]

UPDATE: area clear after emergency crews respond to rollover crash in Victoria

 

https://www.vicnews....sh-in-victoria/

 

 

“I was waiting at the red light to cross and the black vehicle went right through the red light, no stopping and hit the grey vehicle over there,” said Andrea Goldthrope. “It hit the front end of the grey car, it flipped completely over. “

 

At least a cyclist running a red is unlikely to flip a car.  Flip off a car maybe.  In both senses.

[Rob Randall]

Shortly before 6 pm this southbound car smashed straight through a bus shelter on Quadra near Inverness. No serious injuries.

 

[sebberry]

No serious injuries.

 

 

 

Volvos have always been pretty safe cars.  

[sebberry]

Terrible drivers out and about yesterday morning.  

 

Went out to have a coffee over at Esquimalt Lagoon. 

On my way back, a car blew a solid red (it was red for a good second) in the lane next to me heading south on TCH ad Admirals. 

 

Same intersection - light goes green, the car in the lane to my right - the driver is clearly paying way too much attention to his passenger and drifts into my lane.  I have to take evasive action. 

 

Just a little further up ahead where the speed limit drops down to 50kph - I move into the left lane and slow to about 60, splitting the difference between what's legal and what the surrounding traffic is doing.  (Not sure if anyone remembers, but on the Sh!t Drivers of Victoria facebook page a while back, a member posted a video of a car getting nicked for speeding right here.  Left lane, tons of room around him and was clearly doing nothing unsafe but IRSU got him anyway).  I didn't want to be another of their victims so I'd rather plug up traffic instead.  

 

Anyway - the white commercial van behind me wanted none of it.  Was less than a car length from my tail (I couldn't see his plate in my mirror).  Makes a change into the left lane, then immediately cuts me off after passing me on the right.  I again had to lean on the horn and swerve to the left.  

 

WTF is it with our terrible drivers and terrible enforcement priorities?

[Mike K.]

I wouldn't have changed into the left lane. He/she can change into the left lane.

[sebberry]

I wouldn't have changed into the left lane. He/she can change into the left lane.

 

Except that's the stretch of the road where people start making lane changes in preparation for the Saanich/Boleskine intersection.  The speed limit drops to 50kph and there's frequent enforcement.  I had to make the lane change at some point. The white van driver didn't need to cut in front of me like he did. The video is on my facebook page if you haven't seen it.  

[DustMagnet]

Changing into the left lane makes sense if you are planning to exit left at Tillicum or Sannich.  It seems like a long way but can be easier than trying to change lanes closer to those roads (especially when the traffic has piled up) and etiquette notwithstanding, the keep-right-except-to-pass law isn't applicable in a <80km/h zone.

 

As much as I would advocate defensive driving there has to be a middle ground between obnoxiously blocking everything up for one's convenience and cowering off to the right to avoid bothering the spastic idiots.

Edited by DustMagnet, 17 March 2019 - 09:36 AM.

[exc911ence]

WTF is it with our terrible drivers and terrible enforcement priorities?

 

Cops are lazy, speeding is easy revenue. Especially when local limits are all artificially low.

[Victoria Watcher]

Cops are lazy, speeding is easy revenue. Especially when local limits are all artificially low.

 

is it laziness or boredom? i bet the day/hours go faster if you write a ticket every 10 minutes rather than if you only write 1 or 2 an hour.  imagine how dreadful the job must be in either case.  

[aastra]

Nobody mentioned this crash in the parking lot at Beacon Hill Park?

 

"Car runs into five others then ends up perched on sixth at Beacon Hill Park"

[Nparker]

Time to ban cars altogether from BHP.

[nagel]

Time to ban cars altogether from BHP.

Thanks, added to my to-do list.

[Nparker]

Thanks, added to my to-do list.

Most would interpret this as sarcasm, but I know better.

[nagel]

I actually would support removing the parking along the roads in the middle of the park, if not closing the roads themselves.  The parking lot by the zoo can stay.  There's a lot of unnecessary roadway in BHP.

[Nparker]

I actually would support removing the parking along the roads in the middle of the park, if not closing the roads themselves....

I am stunned that you would support this....said no one ever.