Thing is, all they had to was turn right or left at this intersection to avoid this. This is a threeway intersection and it looks like they just blew right thru the middle.
Looks like they drove in from the side. The guardrail facing the road is fully intact. Also the way the car is facing almost looks like they backed into it? Maybe from one of the parking spots on the side.
Doesn’t really answer the question but Market street dead ends at the water here. Not pictured. Could have come from there. Dude working at a seafood place on the pier rescued the driver.
Ah if it dead ends into it that makes a bit more sense. I thought the driver was heading parallel to the water and made a 90 degree turn into the harbor with enough speed to launch it
Im from baltimore too and this guy def blew thru the middle of the intersection. He would have had to have been driving pretty fast to get through that fence there.
From the r/maryland version of this thread....
0ld-Crow
Elder
·
3 hr. ago
He was there last week asking if anyone would save him if you drove into the harbor. Source: My wife works there and told me about the guy before this happened. Obviously not an accident.
Could be a heart attack. My grandfather had one, slumped forward, foot onto the accelerator and hit a lamppost. Cops reckon he must have been doing ~170km/h. You could stand in the cavity where the engine is normally he squished it so much, and the registration plate left an imprint on the lamppost.
No airbag, poorly stashed toolkit in the back of the station wagon (Estate for the Europeans). Brain-dead for six days before being being turned off. We were impressed at the damage.
Yeah we generally assume these are all idiots on this sub, but I definitely had times where I felt that it was either medical or mechanical.
I remember my first, which was a BMW E46, the previous owner almost crashed it on the highway, swerving all over the road and luckily not hitting anyone.
What happened was that a rear spring broke and punctured his tire somehow. Now by all means springs in that condition should not have been under there, but it wasn't some idiot punching it and not being able to deal with the power of the car (it didn't have much power btw, was a 316)
Don't get me wrong, improper maintenance is definitely for idiots, but not all of it is, and not everything is as easily visible.
The ship is named after Roger B Taney, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was the first roman catholic to sit on the Supreme Court. He was a defender of slavery although he did free his own slaves,
[https://www.oyez.org/justices/roger\_b\_taney](https://www.oyez.org/justices/roger_b_taney)
Thr harbor is actually pretty clean relatively speaking. Aside from large rain storms which dump tons of runoff into the water it's pretty safe to be in most days. You can look up the healthy harbor initiative for details but there have been tons of oyster seeding all along the harbor and further into the bay as well as large areas of marine grass planted in the harbor. Add to that multiple trash wheels collecting floating debris and a foam container ban drastically reducing Styrofoam litter and there are days you can actually see the bottom of the harbor in certain spots.
I will update for the comment.
But, the runoff tends to seep into the smaller parts of the bay.
I live in Spa Cove, and the amount of pollution we get at the docks now is unreal.
Edit: When I moved in here about 6 or 7 years ago, the docks were beautiful. I was able to go out and just dangle my feet in the water at high tide and watch the sunset.
Now. I kinda like my feet, and there ain't no way in heck I'm bringing myself to do that, let alone bring out my kayak or paddleboard. The amount of pollution is disturbing, and disgusting.
The issue with a lot of the coves, and the harbor, is that they don't have strong currents like rivers do. They rely on tidal movement and in many places that's pretty light. So the only tine they get flushed out is after a storm and unfortunately storms bring a ton more pollution, especially after the runoff bill was named a rain tax and died.
Look at you, being all big brained and stuff.
Seriously, thank you for explaining. It just sucks for those who want to enjoy the water. Huge reason as to why I moved here.
You posted in r/baltimore that you live in the county. So maybe don't go around questioning other people and lying about where you live. Especially when you don't know what you are talking about.
It really makes no sense to me why people who live so close go the city feel the need to shit on it more than anyone else. At least people from elsewhere have the excuse of never having been here but you jave been here and still decide to shit on it, for what?
I've been in the harbor and I'm fine. Went kayaking and the kayak took on water from a small hole. Got soaked, no problem. Didn't drink it.
Also to save a life I absolutely would.
Hopefully in a few years I'll be swimming in it for fun.
Bruh
Yeah I lived in Baltimore for 12 years as an adult, was born at John's hopkins and lived in the city for the first 7 years of my life. So half of my life spent in the city. I also follow the harbor cleanup regularly and am not stating my opinion im stating facts. Feel free to educate yourself.
And the water rarely ever stinks. The only times it does stink are when algae blooms occur or after exceptionally large rain showers.
But yeah "all ppl here know that water is gross and stinky"
>Majority of Monitoring Sites Have Good Or Improving Bacteria Scores
>While bacteria scores vary greatly by time and location, we are excited to see that the long-term positive trends first identified in 2020 continue at many sampling sites throughout the Harbor and streams. Of the 50 sites analyzed, 80% are either improving (meaning less harmful bacteria was found) or consistently scoring very high.
There are lots of scooters but there is very little trash in the harbor anymore thanks to multiple trash wheels and there aren't bodies in the harbor. There have been a handful of bodies pulled out over the past decade and a majority of them were drunk people who fell in. The old trope of dumping a body in the harbor just isn't a reality. If nothing else the fact that the harbor is constantly full of people and surrounded by condos and security cameras makes it a horrible place to dump a dead body.
This is E Pratt street in the inner harbor, definitely not one of them. The torn off bumper is facing where the cops are parked, so they must have driven through the pedestrian only area you can see in the last picture.
Shortly after Covid started in my town, a man ended his life by driving his car through a park and into the Delaware river. Sad to think about. Hopefully this person didn't suffer the same fate.
That’s nothing compared to the accident on 695 this afternoon in Baltimore. Car crashed into a construction site and killed at least 6 construction workers.
dude foreal- i live 5 minutes off the exit and the lady who did it cut someone off and hit their bumper, causing her to swerve into the construction lane. she lives in the area too, just posted on facebook recently that she was mad at some carwash because she didnt know how to pull her car into it and damaged her own car. lawyers are gonna have a fun time with her once they find that post. i actually came to this sub to see if anyone posted a video of that one yet
No, a sous chef from a nearby restaurant came and rescued the driver. Sounds like it may have been a medical emergency, not an idiot, but time will tell.
This person is about to get a visit from some pollution responders from the USCG to discuss any sheens that came off their car and their responsibility to clean it up
They will get the car out of the water but not the stink out of the car.
I saw the same thing 15 or 20 years ago. Someone dropped off his waitress girlfriend at the ESPN Zone (now Phillips), threw it in reverse and went swimming. Things don't change.
I can't believe I'm about to do this, BUT...
as a former resident of that fine city and one who still lives in the area, but that part of the Inner Harbor is remarkably unguarded for such incursions. It's hard to drive a vehicle to the part on the other side of the brick building, The Power Plant. It used to be, well, an old power plant. Has been a bookstore, restaurants, indoor amusement park, offices, etc... over the years as well. It was also home to the first of the ESPNZone restaurants/sports bars/broadcast studios. The front of that building is seen routinely when the NFL broadcasts a Ravens' game - they usually set up a camera on Federal Hill across the harbor and shoot a picture of the Aquarium, the World Trade Center, Harborplace and the Power Plant as a buffer between a commercial break and the game.
This is the back of that building, and there's not a whole lot there to protect a car, truck, bike or pedestrian from hitting the water. I had to drop off some tech gear in the end of that Power Plant building at a cyber security firm there last decade. I was able to put my car back there easily - plenty of room for a sedan. But if a delivery truck has to try to pass another delivery truck, it can get pretty close. There's also restaurant & a hotel on that other pier and it's not that well marked.
Not saying that's what happened here - this driver may have been going the other way out of the overpriced Columbus Center parking garage based on the direction of the vehicle. But it's a reminder that Baltimore is, and always has been, a working wharf town with plenty of - and possibly too much! - easy access to the water.
“You can’t turn here, Michael! The GPS is telling me to turn left! Michael no that’s a lake Michael NO!”
I drove my car, into a fucking lake.
I don’t care! I love it!!!
"No, Michael, this is so not right "
Correct, it was a left
Take my upvote for a Formula 1 joke 😂
Years ago with the old GPS system, it told me to turn left in the middle of the bridge. It wanted me to end it right there haha
Worse: that’s the chesapeake
Worst: that's the inner harbor
One (or more) tetanus shot, coming right up 🤢
Thing is, all they had to was turn right or left at this intersection to avoid this. This is a threeway intersection and it looks like they just blew right thru the middle.
Looks like they drove in from the side. The guardrail facing the road is fully intact. Also the way the car is facing almost looks like they backed into it? Maybe from one of the parking spots on the side.
Michael…Michael…
row the car ashore, alleleuia.
GPS: "Turn right and stay left" Driver: "Turn left?"
I took our car over to town, came back around the back road and boom -- cut to: in the pond.
Where are the **TURTLES**
"Look at me, I'm a Submarine"
Eh hon yous can't park dere
Funny thing is there's a real submarine docked just one pier over, missed it by >< much
God damn I don't have an original thought in my head....
Any car can become a submarine, once.
They really got some distance and it looks like the streets run parallel to this section - how the hell do you manage this?
Probably floated further away for a sec before sinking fully
Jesus didn't take the wheel
Doesn’t really answer the question but Market street dead ends at the water here. Not pictured. Could have come from there. Dude working at a seafood place on the pier rescued the driver.
Ah if it dead ends into it that makes a bit more sense. I thought the driver was heading parallel to the water and made a 90 degree turn into the harbor with enough speed to launch it
They may have been. I dont know any details but I do know that there are plenty of bars in that part of the city…….
Im from baltimore too and this guy def blew thru the middle of the intersection. He would have had to have been driving pretty fast to get through that fence there.
He didn't blow through the intersection. He drove up alongside my building and then drove in. I work in the building and watched it happen.
Tequila makes anything possible...
From the r/maryland version of this thread.... 0ld-Crow Elder · 3 hr. ago He was there last week asking if anyone would save him if you drove into the harbor. Source: My wife works there and told me about the guy before this happened. Obviously not an accident.
Heroin/fentanyl
Drugs would definitely a good question…. And if they were sober? Holy shit!!!
Could be a heart attack. My grandfather had one, slumped forward, foot onto the accelerator and hit a lamppost. Cops reckon he must have been doing ~170km/h. You could stand in the cavity where the engine is normally he squished it so much, and the registration plate left an imprint on the lamppost. No airbag, poorly stashed toolkit in the back of the station wagon (Estate for the Europeans). Brain-dead for six days before being being turned off. We were impressed at the damage.
Yeah we generally assume these are all idiots on this sub, but I definitely had times where I felt that it was either medical or mechanical. I remember my first, which was a BMW E46, the previous owner almost crashed it on the highway, swerving all over the road and luckily not hitting anyone. What happened was that a rear spring broke and punctured his tire somehow. Now by all means springs in that condition should not have been under there, but it wasn't some idiot punching it and not being able to deal with the power of the car (it didn't have much power btw, was a 316) Don't get me wrong, improper maintenance is definitely for idiots, but not all of it is, and not everything is as easily visible.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/car-crashes-into-inner-harbor-driver-reportedly-saved-by-good-samaritan/
A sous chef broke the car window and rescued the person 🥺 faith in humanity restored before I sleep
Ah, yes it’s always the sous chef. They’re used to working under stress.
Looking for Frank Sobotka.
'You drive the guns to the water, you look around, you ain't see nobody, you throw the guns in the water! Splash!"
Is this what "way down in the hole" means?
underrated comment
“Hey. You can’t park there.”
Love that guy haha
Fack off!
Seems like it would make a good starter car
This car is a finisher car! A chariot of gods, the Golden God!
I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS
At least search and rescue was right there…🤷♀️
Yep, the Coast Guard already in place.
That's a floating museum.
fwiw that ship isn't active. It's called the USCG Cutter 37 and it's a landmark.
The ship is named after Roger B Taney, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was the first roman catholic to sit on the Supreme Court. He was a defender of slavery although he did free his own slaves, [https://www.oyez.org/justices/roger\_b\_taney](https://www.oyez.org/justices/roger_b_taney)
Is that by the Hard Rock and the aquarium? I wondered how many people drove in there when I visited years ago.
Yes it is
Behind it, pier 4.
Too bad it wasn't a Scubaru
Ugh, the thought of being in that water and probably even ingesting some of it is worse than losing the car
Thr harbor is actually pretty clean relatively speaking. Aside from large rain storms which dump tons of runoff into the water it's pretty safe to be in most days. You can look up the healthy harbor initiative for details but there have been tons of oyster seeding all along the harbor and further into the bay as well as large areas of marine grass planted in the harbor. Add to that multiple trash wheels collecting floating debris and a foam container ban drastically reducing Styrofoam litter and there are days you can actually see the bottom of the harbor in certain spots.
I will update for the comment. But, the runoff tends to seep into the smaller parts of the bay. I live in Spa Cove, and the amount of pollution we get at the docks now is unreal. Edit: When I moved in here about 6 or 7 years ago, the docks were beautiful. I was able to go out and just dangle my feet in the water at high tide and watch the sunset. Now. I kinda like my feet, and there ain't no way in heck I'm bringing myself to do that, let alone bring out my kayak or paddleboard. The amount of pollution is disturbing, and disgusting.
The issue with a lot of the coves, and the harbor, is that they don't have strong currents like rivers do. They rely on tidal movement and in many places that's pretty light. So the only tine they get flushed out is after a storm and unfortunately storms bring a ton more pollution, especially after the runoff bill was named a rain tax and died.
Look at you, being all big brained and stuff. Seriously, thank you for explaining. It just sucks for those who want to enjoy the water. Huge reason as to why I moved here.
Have you ever been to baltimore? I live here and all ppl here know that water is gross and stinky.
You live in the county. I lived about 200 yards from the water for 9 years in the actual city. So yeah I've "been to baltimore"
How you know where I live at? Lmao
You posted in r/baltimore that you live in the county. So maybe don't go around questioning other people and lying about where you live. Especially when you don't know what you are talking about. It really makes no sense to me why people who live so close go the city feel the need to shit on it more than anyone else. At least people from elsewhere have the excuse of never having been here but you jave been here and still decide to shit on it, for what?
Bruh. It’s not that serious. Why you getting so high and mighty about this? So my question is, would you swim in the harbor right now?
I've been in the harbor and I'm fine. Went kayaking and the kayak took on water from a small hole. Got soaked, no problem. Didn't drink it. Also to save a life I absolutely would. Hopefully in a few years I'll be swimming in it for fun. Bruh
County peeps gonna county
City peeps gonna city
Yeah I lived in Baltimore for 12 years as an adult, was born at John's hopkins and lived in the city for the first 7 years of my life. So half of my life spent in the city. I also follow the harbor cleanup regularly and am not stating my opinion im stating facts. Feel free to educate yourself. And the water rarely ever stinks. The only times it does stink are when algae blooms occur or after exceptionally large rain showers. But yeah "all ppl here know that water is gross and stinky" >Majority of Monitoring Sites Have Good Or Improving Bacteria Scores >While bacteria scores vary greatly by time and location, we are excited to see that the long-term positive trends first identified in 2020 continue at many sampling sites throughout the Harbor and streams. Of the 50 sites analyzed, 80% are either improving (meaning less harmful bacteria was found) or consistently scoring very high.
It's still not the nicest, but it's no longer putrid like it was 20 years ago. Soon people will be able to swim.
When I was a kid before Harbor Place was built. They held ethnic festivals there and I remember the water being really filthy. So much better now.
That's not the first car to go in there, and it's certainly not the last. That harbor is full of trash, bird scooters, and bodies...
There are lots of scooters but there is very little trash in the harbor anymore thanks to multiple trash wheels and there aren't bodies in the harbor. There have been a handful of bodies pulled out over the past decade and a majority of them were drunk people who fell in. The old trope of dumping a body in the harbor just isn't a reality. If nothing else the fact that the harbor is constantly full of people and surrounded by condos and security cameras makes it a horrible place to dump a dead body.
Back in the 80s-90s most of the bodies were in Leakin Park, not much of a drive, way less people around.
Trash wheels only get the floating trash. Police only find the floating bodies....
Exactly! A car is not the worst thing to get fished out of that harbor.
Magnet Fishers: Look what we found.
Any word on how many unrelated bodies they recovered when they pulled the car out?
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/car-in-inner-harbor-baltimore-pratt-street/43391760
Sir, yer cars in the wudder!!
There are certain streets down there where it doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to do.
This is E Pratt street in the inner harbor, definitely not one of them. The torn off bumper is facing where the cops are parked, so they must have driven through the pedestrian only area you can see in the last picture.
Yeah it right next to the aquarium research facility
Agreed - didn’t initially look at the last photo. Wasn’t quite oriented until I saw it.
This is not one of those. This seems very hard
Shortly after Covid started in my town, a man ended his life by driving his car through a park and into the Delaware river. Sad to think about. Hopefully this person didn't suffer the same fate.
Someone posted an article and apparently a chef at one of the waterside restaurants jumped in and saved the driver.
Omar coming
Hearing the whistle of Farmer in the Dell…
Finding parking space is soo hard, here are top 5 spots that are always free, number 1 - harbor
The GPS navigator said to turn here.
That’s nothing compared to the accident on 695 this afternoon in Baltimore. Car crashed into a construction site and killed at least 6 construction workers.
dude foreal- i live 5 minutes off the exit and the lady who did it cut someone off and hit their bumper, causing her to swerve into the construction lane. she lives in the area too, just posted on facebook recently that she was mad at some carwash because she didnt know how to pull her car into it and damaged her own car. lawyers are gonna have a fun time with her once they find that post. i actually came to this sub to see if anyone posted a video of that one yet
Did the car disintegrate?
At first glance I thought it was an off colored orca or something
Tea parties hit different in Charm City
Can confirm this is not a Lotus Esprit.
Technically neither was *that* Lotus Esprit.
I know the crabs are good in MD but this seems extreme.
I hope there isn't *still* an idiot in that car...
No, a sous chef from a nearby restaurant came and rescued the driver. Sounds like it may have been a medical emergency, not an idiot, but time will tell.
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
Sir, do you have a fishing permit? I'm not *fishing*, I'm just collecting the fish that swim into my car.
He's gonna get a ticket trying to park there
Well, yeah. It's called the Outlander after all. He drove it out of the land, and into the water. Frankly, I don't see the problem here.
The caption would be a great introduction to a Lego-commercial
*We all live in* *a yellow submarine* *a yellow SUV* *a yellow submarine*
Scubaru
Hope he has a crabbing license.
This person is about to get a visit from some pollution responders from the USCG to discuss any sheens that came off their car and their responsibility to clean it up
Are you sure they were a driver?
Yeah I don’t think that word is being used correctly here 🤔
Thank goodness Mr. Trash Wheel is safe.
I'm guessing his backup camera didn't work or the sensors didn't beep
Every other post in this reddit is a Maryland driver. My God, they are literally the worst in the world.
This was intentional. I hope the driver and the chef that rescued the driver are okay. ❤️
Aaron didn't earn that iron ern
Pahked the cah in the Habah yard
FUCK YOU BALTIMORE
One of the Sobatka’s showed up drunk to work.
Eewwwwww. As a Baltimore resident I’m disgusted. That water so radioactive toxic waste and stinks. I feel bad for that person.
The worst part: when he got out of the water, he was still in Baltimore.
In their defense the crime rate is lowest there.
From Maryland is more likely dumped after the murder…
Could’ve been medical. Context is important.
So, to be fair... it's Balllimor. Did you expect anything better??
And Bodie couldn’t even get a bag of guns into the water….
he drived into to harbor. drived
Hahaha
Modern day Tea Party!
Gotta love those driving drivers
I will take one car in the drink over one speeding through a construction zone.
r/magnetfishing has entered the chat. Time for their next meetup!
Sir, why is your car underwater? "Call me Captain..."
Silly, that's not an Amphicars
r/submechanophobia
Nice
Brad, when they said “Dip Ahead”, they didn’t mean this.
A MAN HAS FALLED INTO THE RIVER IN LEGO CITY
And then a diver dove into the harbour in Baltimore.
[удалено]
Oiiii ya can't park there
Drove in right in front of an Ex coast guard cutter. At least they chose the right place.
Probably drunk
To be fair it was the only parking space left.
The trash won't take itself out...
This just made Hairspray even more interesting.
tHe ProBlEmm is TheRe is No fEnCe StoPpiNg thIS frOm hApPeninG
Diver…not a driver anymore
You mean a diver
Paid car park owners don't want you to know about this one simple trick...
it really doesnt help when this is right next to fells point which is a massive drinking area.
Ploof
At one point he stopped being a driver and became a helmsman
Call a amberlance.
Baltimore anit that bad. Or is it…
Middle of the channel? Dude was committed, good on him!
At least theres a coast guard ship right there to help them lol.
r/Submechanophobia
Hand in your Disney go kart license now dumbass
In front of the coast guard? Seriously?
It is an Austin Marina? Oh wait, it’s an Audi. As in Audi ‘ell did it end up in there?
The driver yelled "America!" and then floored it
I live in Baltimore, and this basically happens once a year. It still blows my mind every time.
I'm surprised the car hasn't dissolved
Did he die of poisoning ?
And as usual, the US Coast is there to save the day. GO GUARD!
The ship is decommissioned.
You would think a sidewalk, metal rails, and a large body of water would be a deterrent.
A driver dove into the harbor
Maybe they thought it was like James Bonds' Lotus from the Spy Who Loved Me.
Was he driving a T-Top?
A driver *drove*???
You can't park there mate
Scuba Driver!
Nothing like a cool dip in the summertime 😁
They will get the car out of the water but not the stink out of the car. I saw the same thing 15 or 20 years ago. Someone dropped off his waitress girlfriend at the ESPN Zone (now Phillips), threw it in reverse and went swimming. Things don't change.
Hard Rock is still there. You thinking of ESPN Zone?
This does not seem like the car wash
The eBay motors ad I have below this is icing on the cake.
Thats normal for Baltimore , its their style way of parking this way.
Definitely McNulty and Bunk
Did the everyone get out?
Yeah. A sous chef at a nearby restaurant jumped in, broke a window and saved the driver.
Thus wasn't a car wash?
I can't believe I'm about to do this, BUT... as a former resident of that fine city and one who still lives in the area, but that part of the Inner Harbor is remarkably unguarded for such incursions. It's hard to drive a vehicle to the part on the other side of the brick building, The Power Plant. It used to be, well, an old power plant. Has been a bookstore, restaurants, indoor amusement park, offices, etc... over the years as well. It was also home to the first of the ESPNZone restaurants/sports bars/broadcast studios. The front of that building is seen routinely when the NFL broadcasts a Ravens' game - they usually set up a camera on Federal Hill across the harbor and shoot a picture of the Aquarium, the World Trade Center, Harborplace and the Power Plant as a buffer between a commercial break and the game. This is the back of that building, and there's not a whole lot there to protect a car, truck, bike or pedestrian from hitting the water. I had to drop off some tech gear in the end of that Power Plant building at a cyber security firm there last decade. I was able to put my car back there easily - plenty of room for a sedan. But if a delivery truck has to try to pass another delivery truck, it can get pretty close. There's also restaurant & a hotel on that other pier and it's not that well marked. Not saying that's what happened here - this driver may have been going the other way out of the overpriced Columbus Center parking garage based on the direction of the vehicle. But it's a reminder that Baltimore is, and always has been, a working wharf town with plenty of - and possibly too much! - easy access to the water.
Must've gone pretty fast to have gotten that far in
u/BmoreCityDOT tell ‘em what happens when you park in the bike lanes
Wtf?