{"id":163,"date":"2009-08-25T23:32:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T23:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-08-25T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T23:32:35","slug":"car-on-sidewalk-at-51st-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Car on sidewalk at 51st Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning at about 9AM, two cars crashed at the corner of 51st and Skillman.\u00a0 One car went up on the sidewalk in front of the laundromat, but was stopped by the bollards protecting the fire hydrant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-164\" href=\"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?attachment_id=164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164\" title=\"Car on the sidewalk at 51st and Skillman\" src=\"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0288a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Car on the sidewalk at 51st and Skillman\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0288a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0288a.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Car on the sidewalk at 51st and Skillman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I talked to the driver of the green car, and she said that she had been going north on 51st and looked for cars going west on Skillman before proceeding.\u00a0 She claimed that she didn&#8217;t see the grey car because it was speeding, but the fact that her passenger-side door window was covered with cardboard might have had something to do with that as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-165\" href=\"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?attachment_id=165\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165\" title=\"Green car and its front bumper\" src=\"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0292a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Green car and its front bumper\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0292a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0292a.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green car and its front bumper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The front bumper came off her car; you can see it on the sidewalk in the picture above.\u00a0 Everyone involved was alert and walking around.\u00a0 The ambulance was ready to take some of them to the hospital, but I don&#8217;t know if anyone went.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re lucky that no one was badly hurt here.\u00a0 Clearly some people (I can&#8217;t tell which ones for sure) weren&#8217;t as careful as they should have been, but our street should be more tolerant of that kind of failure.\u00a0 That means not encouraging drivers to speed, which in turn means sidewalk extensions and possibly two-way traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning at about 9AM, two cars crashed at the corner of 51st and Skillman.\u00a0 One car went up on the sidewalk in front of the laundromat, but was stopped by the bollards protecting the fire hydrant. I talked to the driver of the green car, and she said that she had been going north &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crashes","category-news","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}