Dashcam footage captured a T-bone collision at Route 70 and New Hampshire Avenue in Lakewood this morning.
The accident around 8:50 AM.
The video shows a vehicle entering the intersection against a red light before it is struck by another vehicle crossing the intersection.
No serious injuries are being reported.
Spaced out / distracted is a understatement crossing a six lane on red like a turtle
Didnt blow a red light rather slowed a red light
You can’t fix Stupid
This is why you always have to drive defensively and look both ways, even when you have the right of way. Based on this video I wouldn’t be surprised if the driver of the red car gets a ticket also. You can clearly see the other vehicles wait while the purple car goes through, yet the red car takes off at speed (you can see the weight transfer of the car) without verifying that the intersection is clear.
You are so wrong. First of all looking both ways didn’t help because the FedEx truck was blocking his view, and your claim that he should’ve noticed the other cars waiting isn’t true either because the truck next to him was also starting to pick up speed and trucks always have slower pickup.
“Takes off at speed”? The red car drove thru the intersection at a typical starting speed. The blue car is totally at fault. He saw the cars in the oncoming lane go through the yellow/red so he spaced out & did too.
Everybody is assumed to be on their phones at all times unless proven otherwise.
Why should the driver of the red car assume that the reason those fellow cars are stopped is due to a car obstructing traffic, when the most obvious and usual reason is them being on their phones?
When will people realize that the yellow light does not mean SPEED UP NOW!!! It’s become a more than random happening. Same goes for stop signs. Stop means STOP!!!! Not roll thru, not ignore…STOP!!!!! And you can’t blame elders, youngsters, out of state people. It just keeps happening!!!!
Definitely wasn’t speeding up through a yellow, seems like a distracted driver not realizing that light turned red, judging based on the slow speed that they went through the light.
Maybe with that accident but so many others…or ones avoided by luck…are by people in a hurry.
Technically, not exactly a T-Bone. Boneheads?I’ll go with that.