Thanks to H. for sending from Kansas and Kennedy Street, NW around 5:30pm Tuesday.
Ed. Note: It had been 21 days since we lasted posted a driver flipping their vehicle.
driving dangerously
Check out the latest stats from DC City Administrator Kevin Donahue:
“🚨 Update on scofflaw vehicle enforcement:
🪝FY26 YTD: @DCDPW
has impounded 5,209 cars with total of $27M in unpaid citations
📌 Of those, 2,301 were “high value scofflaws” (more than $3k in unpaid fines) that owed $23.4M in unpaid tickets”
Stay tuned.
Thanks to JP for sending from the bike lane outside Union Station yesterday: “you’re doing it wrong.”
Deep suspicions of a Maryland license plate but currently unconfirmed.
I guess the green was just too tempting…
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…)
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…)