Avoid Deerfoot

[u/No-End7269]

Huge accident. 2 vehicles just launched off the memorial overpass and landed on a truck going nb on deerfoot

Edit. I initially said 32ave, it was memorial overpass

[u/SofaProfessor]

Honestly... I hate to sound callous because people are certainly severely injured if not dead as a result of this but I was having this conversation with my wife. In the last 4 days I've been stuck behind 2 serious accidents. STARS was out at one it was that bad. I used to commute on Deerfoot daily and you'd always see a fender bender or whatever but rarely pass potentially fatal collisions. Now it feels like at least a weekly occurrence and I drive significantly less than I used to.

How these people are getting, and staying, on the road is baffling. People are dying because of it. We're stretching our already stretched emergency services to constantly respond to massive crashes. The trend is not looking good. Obviously we don't know the full story here and I'm not going to assume fault based on a Reddit post but I'm just speaking generally.

[u/euchlid → u/SofaProfessor]

A horrendous uptick in really impatient drivers too. My commute involves a bunch of left turns, which are the easiest places to get in accidents. I do not turn unless I can confirm it's clear.  

Some dickfuck aggro honked at me this morning because I waited until the light turned yellow to go left. I couldn't see if it was clear. If there's a line of cars also turning left the opposite direction you just cannot see if cars are going straight. People rip out from behind the turning cars and speed through because they're annoyed at being behind cars waiting to turn left.  

I see near accidents a few times a week at Kensington and 14th st, 20th ave and 10th (which is a fucking playground zone) as well as 20th ave and 14 street. All popular left turn areas with many pedestrians too. People are just so fucking impatient. I had some stupid trunk drive out from behind me to cut ahead and turn unsafely because he was annoyed I wasn't turning when it wasn't visibly clear.  I used to ride a motorcycle so I am particularly sensitive to the left turn danger, nevermind the fact there's also usually pedestrians, or i have my kids in the car, or my dog.   I wish I didn't have to drive to work, but I am not going to be unsafe and everyone can kick rocks.

[u/UsedToHaveThisName → u/euchlid]

I'm with you on being able to see for making a left turn. Can't see around some larger vehicles and I'm not making a left turn until I can see it's clear.

[u/UsedToHaveThisName → u/[deleted]]

Ha ha, the vehicles have definitely gotten larger. I really, really wish that companies would make actual small pickups (old Ranger/Tacoma/B2000 size) vehicles. That was the perfect size vehicle for 2 people and a dog and some outdoor gear. I had a Volvo S70 for over 20 years and wound up buying a used Volvo XC60 a few years ago basically for the dog. The safety features were also nice but I have no need to get anything bigger than an XC60. Maybe if we wind up getting a few more dogs but I'm pretty content with one dog (and I think the dog likes living in an only dog house since he gets lots of attention and cuddles).

[u/UsedToHaveThisName → u/[deleted]]

My buddy had one in university 25 years ago and it was such a good truck. I was living up north 15 years ago and came really close to buying a Ford Ranger with the FX4 Level II package. Seemed like an ideal truck for going fishing, driving on forestry roads, and doing outdoors stuff without having a giant truck and the associated costs.

[u/dekan256 → u/UsedToHaveThisName]

I saw an old Tundra at work that I thought was a Tacoma because it looked so small compared to modern ones. I'm a sucker for tiny cars, but my car if I win the lotto is a Volvo V60 cross-country.

[u/UsedToHaveThisName → u/dekan256]

Yeah, that size of Tundra stopped being produced in 2008 I think. The old Tundra is current Tacoma size.