900 block of U Street, NW
Thanks to J. and D. for sending from Vermont and U Street, NW around 4:15pm yesterday (Thursday): (more…)
driving dangerously
Flipped car had Maryland License Plate
Thanks to Chris for sending from Wisconsin and Calvert Street, NW around 12:30pm
DC Fire and EMS write:
“DC Fire and EMS on scene. No entrapment. Ambulance on scene checking on any patients. Location is Wisconsin Ave & Calvert St NW. Dispatch time 11:13 AM”
Ed. Note: It had been four days since we lasted posted a driver flipping their vehicle.
via google maps
“Dear PoPville,
This may be a long shot, but I figured I’d try it. Last Friday, May 8, around 4:40pm, my wife and I were driving north on 13th Street NW. We stopped in the right lane at a red light at the intersection with Kansas Avenue and Quebec Place. When the right turn arrow turned green, we started to turn onto Kansas Avenue. But a white minivan in the left lane cut in front and collided with us. A few other people saw what happened, (more…)
Thanks to Mica and Peter for sending from Dupont Circle around 20th and Mass Ave, NW, Friday morning: (more…)
DC license plate
Thanks to John for sending from Foxhall on Friday.
It had been 21 days since we last posted a driver who flipped their vehicle. Though plenty of other insane driving in the interim…
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Thanks to I. for sending: “This afternoon at 4:09pm on Windom Place, NW in the American University Park neighborhood.”
Well, it doesn’t appear anyone was seriously injured so that’s something but can we not…
From DC Fire and EMS: (more…)
Good.
I thought we’d draw the line at, oh I don’t know, 50 tickets? 100 tickets? 500 tickets? 750 tickets? 893 it is!! I mean I’ll take it but woof.
MPD reports:
“Yesterday, MPD’s Traffic Enforcement Unit and our partners at DPW impounded a vehicle with (more…)
photo by Ted Eytan
Thanks to Jessica for passing on from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia:
“Nakita Walker, 45, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a Superior Court jury today for the March 15, 2023, vehicular deaths of Mohamed Kamara, Jonathan Alberto Cabrera Mendez and Olvin Josue Torres Velasquez, on Rock Creek Parkway, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
Walker was found guilty of three counts of involuntary manslaughter for the occupants of the car she struck, one count of fleeing a law enforcement officer, and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon of her passenger. According to the expected sentencing guidelines range, (more…)
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7th and Q Street, NW
“Dear PoPville,
Tough morning in Shaw –
Metro driver told me that a car ran a red light and collided with another and the driver swerved to avoid and ran into ambar. Driver is injured and at the hospital along with a passenger who went through a window… horrible. Thank god it was 7 am or there would be a lot of dead or gravely injured people.”
photo by DC Fire and EMS
DC Fire and EMS reported starting at 7:23am: (more…)
I’m just saying it’s almost always a Maryland license plate…
Thanks to J. for sending: “No, this isn’t the new “Woodland Camo” version of the Subaru Outback – just (more…)