G. reports at 1:24pm:
“I just witnessed this car roll up on to the sidewalk on Connecticut Ave, almost running into the tables outside Muchas Gracias! (more…)
driving dangerously
Sunday around 6am a reader reported: “Narrowly avoided being hit by the black Kia at a red light, only for it to cause a massive accident at the next intersection of North Capitol and Michigan. Everyone was OK, aside from being very shaken. There were three what looked like children driving the black Kia. (more…)
E. reports around 1:15pm: “Allegedly it’s 25mph going south on North Capitol. This is between Bryant and Adams blocks. There is a southbound speed camera, but it is just south of Michigan Ave. all the drag racing happens between Channing and the underpass at Rhode Island Ave. More deterrents are needed along the southbound stretch.” (more…)
B. sends just after 12:15pm: “It looks like the car also hit the silver car on Euclid. Another stolen Kia? I didn’t see any of the passengers but a cop is on the scene.” (more…)
Thanks to J. for sending from Glover Park.
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Thanks to KS for sending around 2:45pm: “Car flipped at 20th and K NW. Large police presence. Northbound 20th st closed.”
Update from a reader: “I saw it happen! The car flipped four times and then a man around age thirty or late twenties went running out of the window of the car and ran away. Turns out he stole the vehicle.”
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“He was going super fast and ran the red light, luckily the car stopped flipping before it went into the traffic on the other side or on a pedestrian.”
DC Fire and EMS reported: (more…)
Thanks to K. for sending Sunday morning from 16th and Columbia Road, NW: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
According to witnesses on the scene. Around midnight. A car traveling in westbound lanes of RI Ave, jumped the curb full speed into circle, plowed thru a row of benches and iron fences, leaving a debris field, before hitting that tree, scraping off bark, and spinning around to face 180 degrees. Good thing no one was sitting in those benches or walking their dogs. (more…)
L. writes: “Saw this at 7:30am this morning in Sherman Circle (North side of the circle).”
Thanks to J. for sending: “Alley! between Neal and Oates near Montello in Trinidad at around 3 PM today. (more…)