Another vehicle goes over the median on Glenmore and kills a person

[FFR]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

The crash today was caused by a driver going the wrong way.

How could you possibly end up driving the wrong way on Glenmore? Aren't there barriers all along it?

(I am aware two drivers have managed to launch themselves over the barriers - but this one was a head-on collision because someone was driving the wrong way.)

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by FFR

How could you possibly end up driving the wrong way on Glenmore? Aren't there barriers all along it?

(I am aware two drivers have managed to launch themselves over the barriers - but this one was a head-on collision because someone was driving the wrong way.)

Considering where it happened, I would guess that he possibly turned onto the wrong direction from Centre Street and went up the ramp.

[FFR]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

Considering where it happened, I would guess that he possibly turned onto the wrong direction from Centre Street and went up the ramp.

CTV is reporting the SUV crossed the median.

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/section-of...sion-1.1683421

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by FFR

CTV is reporting the SUV crossed the median.

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/section-of...sion-1.1683421

Interesting. Seems to be confusion on what the problem ended up being right now. CTV says this:

According to police, at approximately 3:30 p.m., an SUV crossed the median and was travelling eastbound in the westbound lanes of Glenmore Trail when it collided with an oncoming truck.

660 News says this:

Constable Tat Ng tells 660News police received calls from several motorists of a vehicle heading in the wrong direction.

“At approximately 3:30 in the afternoon, the Calgary Police Service received reports from civilians stating that a white SUV was eastbound in the westbound lanes of Glenmore Trail,” said Ng.

“As it approached the Blackfoot overpass it was involved in a motor vehicle collision in which there appears to be minor injuries.”

[Acey]

"Ongoing Glenmore Trail Collision Thread," please.

My friend saw this happen, told him to try explaining what happened on his Facebook wall and I'll paste it here if it helps explain anything.

[burn_this_city]

Drunk driver by the sounds of things.

[worth]

I followed the fire trucks out of ogden and all the way west until I hit a wall of traffic @ Heirtage at about 3:35pm.

I don't think the person came up from center street. The collision was in the far left lane, if they came up the offramp, they would have had to cross all three lanes of opposing traffic.

[Swift]

Jesus...

[Calgary14]

That is terrible. I also heard alcohol was a factor

[CampbellsTransgressions]

Police are considering if it's a factor just like every time an accident like this happens.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

Jesus...

Question of the day should be what kind of the Ant was driving that car..unbelievable a human being could survive that mess.

[Ironhorse]

Police believe the driver of a SUV that drove the wrong way on Glenmore Trail and collided head-on with a truck on Wednesday afternoon may have been impaired.

Duty Inspector Jim Stinson said officers investigating the serious collision, which snarled traffic on Glenmore Trail for hours, have grounds to believe alcohol may have played a role.

“It’s an impaired driving investigation,” said Stinson.

It took fire officials 45 minutes to rescue the male driver of the white Hyundai Santa Fe SUV using hydraulic extrication tools. The man, believed to be in his late 30s, was conscious when he was removed from the vehicle. He was transported to hospital in serious condition, according to EMS.
The driver of the five-tonne truck was not injured.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...805/story.html

[Acey]

My friend basically said there's no way the truck could have avoided it, hardly had time to react. Happened really quick. From his vantage point, he thought it was entirely possible that the Hyundai driver died instantly, such was the force of the collision. Yet another testament to the safety of modern vehicles.

[Yasa]

Originally Posted by T@T

Question of the day should be what kind of the Ant was driving that car..unbelievable a human being could survive that mess.

It looks bad, but probably looks worse after the roof was cut off and peeled forward. Being drunk helps though, so if you're ever in a car accident, make sure you're drunk before it happens.

[FlamesKickAss]

Came up the ramp from fairmont after leaving the peelers? But took the wrong ramp/

[Bmuzyka]

They closed Glenmore about 10 cars behind me, I saw the car just after they got the roof off, its one thing to see it in a picture, its another to see it from 15 feet away

[getbak]

Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss

Came up the ramp from fairmont after leaving the peelers? But took the wrong ramp/

That's what I was thinking. I don't know anywhere else you could get onto westbound Glenmore travelling east. Either there, or behind the Mark's on Macleod, but there aren't any bars there.

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss

Came up the ramp from fairmont after leaving the peelers? But took the wrong ramp/

From experience? lol

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

A number of issues with raising the median:

- Snow drifting. The higher the wall, the greater the snow drifts.
- Medians are supposed to be mountable. They're not meant to act as full on barriers. If you're driving at a reasonable speed, you'll hop on the median, but the chances of driving over it means you were going quite fast at a sharp angle.
- Visibility. A full on barrier can mess up sight distances, especially in narrow areas
- Driver perception. Taller barriers make things feel quite a bit narrower than if you just have a median.

What you're proposing is a barrier wall as opposed to a median. Barriers do prevent cross overs, but have a load other different safety issues associated with them. A median is more of a delineator than a crash attenuator.

Edit: Also, even if there was a barrier up, if you go fast enough you're still going to deflect off the barrier and likely hit someone. Barriers don't absorb. They deflect.

[roadblock]

Originally Posted by ken0042

This is what your snip says:


For the Glenmore crash, it says:

Ahh sorry I mis-read it then