Thayer Avenue Raceway
Attention people of Earth: Speed bumps are there for a reason. And it’s not to pull a Dukes of Hazzard move.
Half of the 700 block of Thayer was flanked by police vehicles last night when, just after 6:00, someone (according to eyewitnesses) decided to test the limits of the traffic calming devices. Luckily, the driver walked away with minor injuries. Not sure if the other car helped cause the flippage or if it was just a casualty of war, but let this be a lesson: Slow the hell down, people. There are no less than 12 kids living within four houses of this mayhem. Assuming speed did cause this, I have absolutely NO sympathy for the driver.
Thanks to D Stegmeier for the photos.
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Maybe they were distracted by all the Xmas lights still up on your block…
seriously??? crazy.
We like to keep things festive on the Ave.
Wow, I heard that the road was closed off but didn’t hear why until now… Watching people speed down this road is a daily piss-off of mine. I know we all speed sometimes, but try to keep it off the residential roads, k?
Is it just people who finally broke free from traffic on Georgia/Colesville trying to make up for lost time or what?
She was coming from the other direction. I think it’s all the traffic from the apartment complexes down the road near the 500 block.
Now I’m waiting for the inevitable “YOU’RE BEING CLASSIST!!” comment.
I thought those threads were reserved for Silver Spring, Singular. You always seem to attract those comments.
As for this, it’s simply a matter of volume, but that actually crossed my mind. Let’s see what happens…
I think we’re also known as a cut-through from University/Piney Branch toward downtown – the bus route. I know I get home that way at times!
So it looks like this car hit the blue car at the left front bumpers, the driver jammed on brakes while car spun sideways into the traffic bump, which hit the flat side of the wheel(s) with enough force to flip it? That would take some serious speed to propel the car that full 10 feet or so from impact into the bump. Was the road icy?
Was wondering if you were gonna get pics for this. The street was blocked as I came home and I was gonna take a couple shots for you w/ my phone, but the camera on it is very lame. Glad someone else came through. Kinda amazing the driver wasn’t hurt worse. Although dark out, she looked in fine shape as the tow truck turned her car right side up. Crazy!
Well, I will say that I live in the 500 block, and I see the crazy speed going past my complex from both directions, so there’s gotta be something else at play here too…
I think RC is right. Being a bus artery makes for a perfect cut-through for everybody else from Hillandale/Langley Park to DTSS.
A purple car? Is that fiendish master of mischief The Joker on the loose in Silver Spring?
I think that’s just a combination of the red & blue police lights reflecting off the car.
Off the silver car, no less.
And an update: Word has it that she dropped her phone and was picking it up when the crash happened.
The folks on Huntington Rd in Bethesda got the county to put in chokepoints and traffic circles. It stopped the racetrack between Bradley Blvd and Old Georgetown Rd. Not sure if the neighborhood wants to go that far, though.
Um, did anyone else notice that’s a Toyota?
Interesting. I still think it’s driver error here, but interesting nonetheless. I don’t even know if this model/year was part of the recall…