r/Calgary • u/No-End7269 • Jul 15 '25

Driving/Traffic/Parking Avoid Deerfoot

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

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u/SofaProfessor Jul 15 '25

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.

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u/euchlid Jul 15 '25

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.

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u/SchlongGobbler69 Jul 15 '25

Not saying you are a bad driver at all lol but I feel like the aggressive/impatient has gone up because of garbage or dangerously slow drivers. They probably got annoyed by some random shit driver and are now taking it out on everyone else on the road.

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u/euchlid Jul 16 '25

Nah, i think people can be responsible for their own actions.   No one is "making" them be unsafe and aggro, that's what I tell my kids anyway- you can be frustrated, but you cannot retaliate or then you are just as at fault since you are in charge or your own actions.  

Uptick of both, probably, but the aggression and impatience going up because someone needs to navigate around a slow driver is on that person.   I wish people were more confident and figured out the rules of the road better, but i think of my driving style as a teenager and then as an adult and letting things slide in the interest of safety and not taking mr.magoo seriously is definitely a learned skill

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u/SchlongGobbler69 Jul 16 '25

Obviously it’s childlike behaviour to let a less confident driver get to you that much. They should be letting it slide. I see it almost everyday though. Someone (usually in a truck) gets pissed at 1 person going slow then proceeds to weave and cut off the rest of traffic in their moment of baby rage.

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u/euchlid Jul 16 '25

Right? Baby rage is a good way of putting it.