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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I gotta say this picture makes me mad. The two people settled in and watching like they're at a baseball game. The couple gawking with their kid. Show some decency.
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Not far from where we used to live probably 150 yards over that wall. Harsh to say stettled in, this picture (taken by another "gawker", media or not) is pointed at the 5 foot wall bordering Lakeview, and anyone can basically hop over, and guaranteed some helped.
As for the accident, guaranteed it was a car coming off the S/B Crowchild off the small merge lane, to W/B Glenmore, and the truck, probably wanting to go to Richard road, didn't properly shoulder check...the ramp is angled so that its not a usual merge lane (ie its like the car is coming from above off the ramp) plus it's short and there's a curve ahead too. If said pickup driver had a few drinks, even worse for paying attention for a car coming from seemingly out of nowhere if he's realizing late that he has to be in the other lane, and a curve coming up as well.
There's enough right of way there for 3 lanes each way on Glenmore, a plan that has been in place for over 10 years (believe me I know) for the initial planned acceptance of the Ring Road as a feeder road (and predates the casino), but its another few years away.
There's been a few accidents there when we lived there, some crashes, some going off the road on their own. There's enough of a curve, for both that some can't negotiate (in winter or just plain can't drive or both)/and E/B drivers realize too late they need to be over in the right lane to get to Crowchild, as evidenced by the "new" part of the wall in that pic which is why I know how close that is to our old place - that wasn't fixed for 4 months around 2010.