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Bus crash in Downtown Detroit was caught on security cameras
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Surveillance cameras from a nearby business capture the moments a car blows a stop sign and plows into a bus at the intersection of Rosa Parks and Temple.
Looks like the car was going pretty fast, but how is anyone supposed to see that stop sign?
Blaming the overgrowth, or limited visibility of the sign, is BS of the highest order. Anyone going the speed limit would have seen the sign and been able to stop. PEOPLE are the problem, and mostly the people driving Chargers, Challengers, and Impalas.
It was a D-DOT RTE 29 Linwood Bus heading northbound. That driver didn't stop and kept going and speeding. Rose Parks St. [[12th St.) is a main road where drivers always had a right of way. They can't stop for you. Temple St. is just a neighborhood street corner. You had to slow down and stop when approaching main roads.
That area does need a stop light since traffic is flowing along Temple Street near the Motor City Casino.
What "struck" {heh} me is how much momentum the car must have had to be able to divert the bus that far to its left — then how much momentum the bus must have had to travel that far before it stopped.
There's some momentous momentum in that accident.
Can anyone identify the make/model of the car from that footage?
Yeah, upon further review, based on the speed, that car wouldn't have stopped even if the stop sign was clearly visible.
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Originally Posted by EGrant
Yeah. After listening to that guy on the news clip, I’m thinking, maybe they should install a permanent spike strip on that intersection.
Man. The speed that car was going to hit that bus and move it the way it did is insane. I’m glad no one got hurt, except the nutty nutjob.
Of course the driver is at fault. But there is also a problem with the intersection if there are that many accidents. Fix the intersection and there will be less accidents. It's simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by K-slice
I live 1 block east on temple from the crash. The problem isn't the intersection. The problem is drunk assholes speeding away from the casino. They just put in a speed bump on temple just west of Trumble. They need another one just east Rosa parks.
As an example. My Girlfriend and I were walking through neighborhood early last month. we were walking east on pine, east of Rosa parks. A guy in Pickup comes racing west down Pine. He was going so fast he blew the stop sign at Rosa parks. He launched his truck on the crown of Rosa parks. The truck completely bounced once He momentarily lost control and almost hit a line of parked cars. The stop sign at pine is not hidden. The driver purposely ran it. He was lucky a bus wasn't coming.