glhs837
Power with Control
So nobody has explained to me why running radar is supposed to help with failure to yield problems.
ACCIDENTS KEEP PILING UP
- Thread starter 3CATSAILOR
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Two Injured After Multi-Vehicle Collision in Callaway
On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at approximately 10:25 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of Point Lookout Road and Hayden Lane in Callaway, for the reported motor vehicle collision involving five vehicles with injuries.
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I admit, I've made that turn before.
Wickedwrench
Stubborn and opinionated
I got rear ended a few years back by a person that was high as a kite. The only thing the deputy gave him a ticket for was for following too closely. The guy was hostile at the scene of the accident but took the ticket. He never showed up for his court date and drove around for a year on a suspended license for failure to appear. A year later the charges were dropped and nothing ever happened to him. Once again, my experience with our legal system and courts shows me what a joke it all is.
OccamsRazor
Well-Known Member
Straight from a SMCS Sheriff's mouth:
"We only write up accident reports if someone is injured and removed from the scene OR if a car is damaged bad enough not to drive."
"We only write up accident reports if someone is injured and removed from the scene OR if a car is damaged bad enough not to drive."
glhs837
Power with Control
Got a joker on the FB group saying its a legal turn, just a badly designed driveway.
It is a poor design by not allowing a left turn going north.
lucky_bee
RBF expert
I think their assumption was making that left turn from 5 N was sketchy so let's avoid putting in a turn lane and that'll help the temptation, but they had to know people would still attempt it, making it even more dangerous. Add to that how ****ing fast people go through that whole intersection and area.
Wickedwrench
Stubborn and opinionated
The problem I had is that there was two totaled vehicles and I got an ambulance ride yet the ticket said that his actions didn't contribute to an accident and there was no injuries. Just laziness on the part of the Sheriff's department imho.
glhs837
Power with Control
If people choose to ignore traffic markings, then that's on them. Me, I would put those in upright traffic posts like they closed off the road by Sheetz on GMR. Lots of places I would use those.
The snow plows would LOVE those.
lucky_bee
RBF expert
completely agree, this particular accident was 100% that person's fault and avoidable. But with 4 other cars involved and their damages and injuries, speeding likely occurred by others and only added to the magnitude of the pile on.
glhs837
Power with Control
Not in the middle. Blocking off the entrance lane, just like they did at Sheetz.
sunshine98
Active Member
How *are* you supposed to get into that DG from northbound 5? A U turn at the light is tight and people are turning right from Piney Point Road. Turn right into the Grid Iron shopping center and U turn thru the gas station (that's fun to turn left out of)? U turn thru the Weis parking lot?
3CATSAILOR
Well-Known Member
I brought it to the County Commissioners attention about this at least three years ago. "They did nothing". If I was a Commissioner I would ensure it woiuld be corrected. It is unsafe in its current status.
3CATSAILOR
Well-Known Member
I have seen people running me off the road because they are on their cell phones. I have seen passing on the shoulder. Driving down 235 at at least 100 on a Crutch Rocket. I have been first on the scene and rendered aid to many accident victims through the years to the present day. But, what happened yesterday, shocked even me. On Route 5 about 50 feet north of where they are working to build a new bridge on the north bound shooulder was a car sitting idle. I thought it was a deer strike as I slowly approached. Then I realized it was a lifeless body of a young woman in her late teens to early 20s. One person standing beisde her flipped her body over. I saw no life in the young girl's body. Once I realzed what I saw, I turned around to render aid if she was still alive. Unforunately I had to wait for traffic. The two occupants in the car loaded her body in to the car just as I pulled up behind them. And then they sped away. I was close enough to get the tag and description of the vehicle. I notified 911. Hopefully the responding units determined what was going on and helped the young lady.
All of the above?...all crappy options.
glhs837
Power with Control
OD would be my guess. We can hope they took her to get NARCAN'd. And I concur with the cell phone thing. From behind, its usually quite easy to tell. And my guesses are usually borne out when I pass someone since the bike has me up higher than most. I would state that as the number one threat to traffic safety right now.
Yep. Only really safe option is going into the Weis shopping center and coming back out. And if I ever wanted to enter that from the south, that's what I would do. Like the people who come out of Navy Federal and run the rumble bar to go north, I don't get it. So patterns are dangerous, enough so its not worth any possible time savings. In addition to being illegal, of course.
I use the laundry at that A&W shopping area and when I'm finished, I need to turn left with all the morning traffic at 8AM. I don't even bother trying anymore. I turn right from the A&W then left into the Weiss parking lot to go south. I know it's longer, but it's also safer and that makes it worth the time. I've been a statistic in this county too often; sideswiped once by someone who ran a stop sign and t-boned by someone who ran a red light. As I've gotten older, I'm finding that safer and mildly time consuming is better than throwing caution to the wind.
Very few people in this county have decent driving manners.
Just think how much more fun that tangled mess of intersections will be once the new Weis gas station is completed and the two lots on the southwest corner of the 5/249 intersection are developed.