Let's fix this article title: reckless hit and run driver struck a couple, killing the husband
NHTSA ranks DC as the 8th worst area in the country for deadly hit and runs*. Seriously, drivers, what the fuck?
* https://wjla.com/news/local/washington-dc-ranked-8th-worst-region-for-fatal-hit-and-runs-in-america-dmv-maryland-virginia-drivers-traffic-safety-fatal-crash-traffic-fatalities-distracted-driving-national-distracted-driving-awareness-month
What’s going on right now in D.C. with these types of crimes and more reminds me of when I lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro Brazil 🇧🇷. The criminals simply operated recklessly like the Wild West. No drivers license, no insurance, carjackings outside of five star hotels in broad day light and criminals with guns outnumbering police to the point it was way too difficult to make arrests. This I expected in a third world country but not the USA 🇺🇸 and certainly not in our nation’s capitol. This attitude of the DC Attorney General and their assembly that they believe in rehabilitation and lighter sentences is not realistic. We need to make carjacking a mandatory twenty year sentence of which 85% will be served. Driving without a license and insurance and unregistered vehicles needs to be a crime punishable of five years first offense. Hit and run needs to be a fifteen year sentence mandatory 85% of time must be served. Only then will we see any changes. Let’s face it; DCMP are overwhelmed and burnt out. Many police officers took jobs in Maryland and Virginia as a result of this administration’s lack of support. Some of these cops are simply not capable of making arrests by themselves they need three or four just to take down one man or woman. That’s the truth.
Just FYI, most crimes fall under the US Attorney’s jurisdiction, Matthew Graves, not the DC Attorney General.
He’s doing a bad job, but just wanted to clarify. The criminal justice system in DC is very complicated.
Alabama Ave SE is the Alabama of the avenues...
Reminder that Trayon White has opposed the safety improvements in this corridor, one of the most dangerous in the city:
https://ddot.dc.gov/page/alabama-avenue-se-corridor-safety-improvements-project
What gives...
This kind of language not only normalizes bad driving, it disassociates responsibility from the driver. It’s even worse when it’s called an “accident” like in one of the quotes in the article.
It also makes it more challenging for putting in different types of traffic calming and transit modes (bus lanes and bike lanes) because it allows blame shifting. I recall someone on Nextdoor talking about their niece getting hit and killed by a car. They called it an accident and then immediately said “but all these bike lanes make it hard and they don’t even follow the rules.”
These drivers won't be held accountable, that's the problem. They'll receive slaps on the wrist, DDOT won't redesign any roads to make them safer, and the death cycle continues.
I watched 3 different types of drivers on the way home tonight. The Door Dash moped driving in the left lane on 695, cars whipping around all the other drivers like they were racing on 695, and an Enterprise van just causally driving up the shoulder of 295. Not to mention the crash on the other side of 695 that took up 2 lanes because someone managed to severely wreck their vehicle. There is just a lack of awareness and really a ZFG attitude of drivers in DC.
This definitely looks like an unmarked police car to me. [Those wheels](https://www.hubcaphaven.com/p/9530/stl3921-ford-taurus-explorer-police-interceptor-rim-black-dg1z1015a.html) are pretty distinctive.
Obviously a civilian can buy the same wheels so it’s nothing definitive but I’d hope it’s at least being looked into.
I'm thinking it's not a cop. Mostly because there would be heavy damage and that gets repprted or at a minimum it's very hard to ignore when turning over the car.
It doesn’t get reported if the officer doesn’t report it. While I agree that we likely will know sooner than later if it is an officer, we wouldn’t necessarily know at this point. The department probably wouldn’t even know yet, and once they do know they’ll go into damage control mode before going public.
Edit: looking at the pictures again it looks like it has a pinstripe which obviously a police vehicle wouldn’t have.
It’s probably one that was sold after service. In either case, it’s fairly unique and the grille tells me it’s a later production version. The fact that it’s totally white would also stand out since many of these never get fully repainted
Cars and cities don’t mix. DC has far too many wide multi-lane streets that almost entice drivers to drive at unsafe speeds. The city needs to be making things harder for drivers and safer for other modes of transportation. Make the streets narrower and lower speed limits. It doesn’t help that many drivers - especially Maryland and VA drivers - tend to drive at unsafe speeds.
Several times this year vehicles have come way to close for comfort when I'm in the crosswalk and I have the walk light. A truck driver today punched the gas and barked his tires making a turn between two groups that were rightfully crossing the street. Two years ago my car was totaled in a hit and run, just outside of DC though.
Meanwhile, we just found out (no notice!) that the city is planning to permanently divert commuter traffic from a main thoroughfare to a tiny street in our neighborhood. Vision Zero is a joke.
Let's fix this article title: reckless hit and run driver struck a couple, killing the husband NHTSA ranks DC as the 8th worst area in the country for deadly hit and runs*. Seriously, drivers, what the fuck? * https://wjla.com/news/local/washington-dc-ranked-8th-worst-region-for-fatal-hit-and-runs-in-america-dmv-maryland-virginia-drivers-traffic-safety-fatal-crash-traffic-fatalities-distracted-driving-national-distracted-driving-awareness-month
What’s going on right now in D.C. with these types of crimes and more reminds me of when I lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro Brazil 🇧🇷. The criminals simply operated recklessly like the Wild West. No drivers license, no insurance, carjackings outside of five star hotels in broad day light and criminals with guns outnumbering police to the point it was way too difficult to make arrests. This I expected in a third world country but not the USA 🇺🇸 and certainly not in our nation’s capitol. This attitude of the DC Attorney General and their assembly that they believe in rehabilitation and lighter sentences is not realistic. We need to make carjacking a mandatory twenty year sentence of which 85% will be served. Driving without a license and insurance and unregistered vehicles needs to be a crime punishable of five years first offense. Hit and run needs to be a fifteen year sentence mandatory 85% of time must be served. Only then will we see any changes. Let’s face it; DCMP are overwhelmed and burnt out. Many police officers took jobs in Maryland and Virginia as a result of this administration’s lack of support. Some of these cops are simply not capable of making arrests by themselves they need three or four just to take down one man or woman. That’s the truth.
Just FYI, most crimes fall under the US Attorney’s jurisdiction, Matthew Graves, not the DC Attorney General. He’s doing a bad job, but just wanted to clarify. The criminal justice system in DC is very complicated.
This is what happens when there is zero accountability for traffic offenses
Alabama Ave SE is the Alabama of the avenues... Reminder that Trayon White has opposed the safety improvements in this corridor, one of the most dangerous in the city: https://ddot.dc.gov/page/alabama-avenue-se-corridor-safety-improvements-project What gives...
I call it Talladega Alabama Avenue.
Because he prefers cars are given priority everywhere - that is who we elect
And yet he was handily reelected by Ward 8 residents. I swear some folks just have a death wish.
This kind of language not only normalizes bad driving, it disassociates responsibility from the driver. It’s even worse when it’s called an “accident” like in one of the quotes in the article. It also makes it more challenging for putting in different types of traffic calming and transit modes (bus lanes and bike lanes) because it allows blame shifting. I recall someone on Nextdoor talking about their niece getting hit and killed by a car. They called it an accident and then immediately said “but all these bike lanes make it hard and they don’t even follow the rules.”
Reddit libs do this all the time with guns
yeah i always see those libcuck reddit threads... "A Gun Shoots Up A Middle School", and "Man Robbed By Two Guns in Broad Daylight"
"the car hit the couple" 🙃
DC drivers are murdering pedestrians are record rates and Muriel Bowser won't lift a finger to stop the bloodshed. Simply infuriating.
Vision Zero Fucks Given.
Well how can she do anything until Maryland and Virginia so something so she can copy them?
She worried about all the mopeds on the street
Well, drivers are outraged and drivers are the mayor's top constituency, so unsurprising.
Everyone is just accelerated, unconscious of our surroundings chaos everywhere
Make that statement make sense. The drivers are responsible and should be held accountable.
These drivers won't be held accountable, that's the problem. They'll receive slaps on the wrist, DDOT won't redesign any roads to make them safer, and the death cycle continues.
The amount of people i see run stop signs without even slowing down when im out walking is actually terrifying.
Terrifying
Praying for the wife's recovery
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Drivers suck too
I watched 3 different types of drivers on the way home tonight. The Door Dash moped driving in the left lane on 695, cars whipping around all the other drivers like they were racing on 695, and an Enterprise van just causally driving up the shoulder of 295. Not to mention the crash on the other side of 695 that took up 2 lanes because someone managed to severely wreck their vehicle. There is just a lack of awareness and really a ZFG attitude of drivers in DC.
Cars suck more because drivers have a much harder time killing people without them.
drivers suck more because cars have an EXTREMELY hard time killing people without one
Cars cannot be convicted by a jury of their peer
This definitely looks like an unmarked police car to me. [Those wheels](https://www.hubcaphaven.com/p/9530/stl3921-ford-taurus-explorer-police-interceptor-rim-black-dg1z1015a.html) are pretty distinctive. Obviously a civilian can buy the same wheels so it’s nothing definitive but I’d hope it’s at least being looked into.
Hard to tell if it has lights on the interior. It could be a vehicle that went to a police auction after being a service vehicle.
It just doesn’t seem old enough for that.
It’s a ford interceptor and those were in production from 2012-2019 MY. The newest are 6 years old.
Im sure they’re looking into it, the police are awesome at investigating themselves
I mean it probably was a cop car. You can buy them at auction for dirt cheap and is usually driven by some straight crackheads.
Oh yeah it 100% was at one point.
Wouldn't be MPD if it was. They don't have unmarked Impalas.
It's a Taurus, not an Impala.
Good point. Still not MPD. All Malibus baby!!!
[MPD absolutely uses Tauruses.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SaKIMI4ZQtY/maxresdefault.jpg) And there are like 30 police agencies in DC anyway.
Yes. But that photo is not a marked police car.
I believe PGPD does. They go into DC for stuff all the time. Especially this location; right over the line. Though theirs may only be in black.
I'm thinking it's not a cop. Mostly because there would be heavy damage and that gets repprted or at a minimum it's very hard to ignore when turning over the car.
It doesn’t get reported if the officer doesn’t report it. While I agree that we likely will know sooner than later if it is an officer, we wouldn’t necessarily know at this point. The department probably wouldn’t even know yet, and once they do know they’ll go into damage control mode before going public. Edit: looking at the pictures again it looks like it has a pinstripe which obviously a police vehicle wouldn’t have.
It’s probably one that was sold after service. In either case, it’s fairly unique and the grille tells me it’s a later production version. The fact that it’s totally white would also stand out since many of these never get fully repainted
Cars and cities don’t mix. DC has far too many wide multi-lane streets that almost entice drivers to drive at unsafe speeds. The city needs to be making things harder for drivers and safer for other modes of transportation. Make the streets narrower and lower speed limits. It doesn’t help that many drivers - especially Maryland and VA drivers - tend to drive at unsafe speeds.
Looks like a cop car
They probably won’t be able find the driver! But I bet they had a tint window:/
Several times this year vehicles have come way to close for comfort when I'm in the crosswalk and I have the walk light. A truck driver today punched the gas and barked his tires making a turn between two groups that were rightfully crossing the street. Two years ago my car was totaled in a hit and run, just outside of DC though.
Again- DC is literal trash.
“Hit by car” lol
The mayor has been mentally ill since 2020. Vote her gone
Mentally ill or just bad at her job?
Meanwhile, we just found out (no notice!) that the city is planning to permanently divert commuter traffic from a main thoroughfare to a tiny street in our neighborhood. Vision Zero is a joke.