I find navigating roundabouts very confusing. I wish Los Alamos did not have them. I live in White Rock and avoid going up there as much as possible to avoid them.
I find navigating roundabouts very confusing. I wish Los Alamos did not have them. I live in White Rock and avoid going up there as much as possible to avoid them.
I know the victims in the April 8 accident. One broke both ankles and some ribs, and the other had much worse injuries. She has spent weeks in ICU. The careless truck driver tried to say that the two women were on their cell phones, but that was not true- police confiscated the phones and there was no activity. He turned in front of them and they could not avoid hitting the truck.
Accidents on the Main Hill and Truck route and NM 402, even though technically outside County boundaries, should be included as these roads are so integral to Los Alamos, and through an agreement with Santa Fe County LA PD and Fire respond to all crashes from the Tewa gas station to Los Alamos. Several years ago two 21 yr old young women were killed as they rounded the corner at the overlook on the main hill because an 18 wheeler had crossed into their lane. While I don't know their speed, it was probably closer to the posted 45 MPH than the "recommended" 25 MPH. All these yellow MPH signs NEED to be replaced with white MPH signs and random police enforcement.
Only one of those fatal accidents involved exceeding the speed limit. And that wasn't by a small amount that was a deliberate massively excessive speeding event. I am curious how they get such a price size number for the estimated speed of impact..
I find it frustrating and odd that the one solution proposed is to focus on speeding, and of course the financial reward to the county of imposing those speeding fines. Assuming that you could get someone doing 94 miles an hour on a 45 mph Street to change their behavior by speed cameras, you've only solved 20% of the problem.
There is a technological solution that is truly simple. Both the truck route and the main Hill road should have concrete dividers to separate the lanes. Road work is going to be done on highway 4, and I'm hoping that as part of that that there will be a divider installed.
Head-On collisions are at highway speed are very likely to be fatal simply because of the combined speed of the vehicles. Regardless of the reason for crossing over into the other Lane, be it inattention, texting, or medical issue, these barriers reduce the number of vehicles involved in the crash, and reduces the energy involved in that impact by a factor of four ish.
I agree with most of your comment, except about speed cameras which have decades of data showing speed and red light cameras DO drastically reduce accidents. As well as having lived in Houston and seen the results of before cameras, after cameras and again after the cameras were removed.
I find navigating roundabouts very confusing. I wish Los Alamos did not have them. I live in White Rock and avoid going up there as much as possible to avoid them.
I find navigating roundabouts very confusing. I wish Los Alamos did not have them. I live in White Rock and avoid going up there as much as possible to avoid them.
I know the victims in the April 8 accident. One broke both ankles and some ribs, and the other had much worse injuries. She has spent weeks in ICU. The careless truck driver tried to say that the two women were on their cell phones, but that was not true- police confiscated the phones and there was no activity. He turned in front of them and they could not avoid hitting the truck.
Accidents on the Main Hill and Truck route and NM 402, even though technically outside County boundaries, should be included as these roads are so integral to Los Alamos, and through an agreement with Santa Fe County LA PD and Fire respond to all crashes from the Tewa gas station to Los Alamos. Several years ago two 21 yr old young women were killed as they rounded the corner at the overlook on the main hill because an 18 wheeler had crossed into their lane. While I don't know their speed, it was probably closer to the posted 45 MPH than the "recommended" 25 MPH. All these yellow MPH signs NEED to be replaced with white MPH signs and random police enforcement.
Only one of those fatal accidents involved exceeding the speed limit. And that wasn't by a small amount that was a deliberate massively excessive speeding event. I am curious how they get such a price size number for the estimated speed of impact..
I find it frustrating and odd that the one solution proposed is to focus on speeding, and of course the financial reward to the county of imposing those speeding fines. Assuming that you could get someone doing 94 miles an hour on a 45 mph Street to change their behavior by speed cameras, you've only solved 20% of the problem.
There is a technological solution that is truly simple. Both the truck route and the main Hill road should have concrete dividers to separate the lanes. Road work is going to be done on highway 4, and I'm hoping that as part of that that there will be a divider installed.
Head-On collisions are at highway speed are very likely to be fatal simply because of the combined speed of the vehicles. Regardless of the reason for crossing over into the other Lane, be it inattention, texting, or medical issue, these barriers reduce the number of vehicles involved in the crash, and reduces the energy involved in that impact by a factor of four ish.
I agree with most of your comment, except about speed cameras which have decades of data showing speed and red light cameras DO drastically reduce accidents. As well as having lived in Houston and seen the results of before cameras, after cameras and again after the cameras were removed.
An eye opening and jaw dropping article! Small town with too much traffic and deaths! Just cannot believe it.