Crash on 66 on Saturday

[Anonymous]

I don't think they should be allowed to put up jersey walls for construction projects on the shoulder. There's no shoulder on that stretch of road on the right so there's nowhere for cars to go to avoid a crash or get out of the way.

[Anonymous]

Allowing all these dockless cars is a policy that should be reexamined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^And then cars come up fast in that lane-next-to-the-exit-lane because they think they are just driving on a highway and end up slamming on their brakes because of people in the lane with them trying to merge into the exit lane.

And cars who don't know the right lane is now essentially the exit lane are trying to get out of it. Meanwhile cars in the left lane are going 80 mph, until someone realizes their exit for the airport is coming up and tries to move over 3 lanes but can't get into the line that's formed almost back to the parkway merge.

What I don't understand is if they expect there to be a few accidents a day there, why haven't they done anything about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like that stretch of 66 between Fairfax County Pkwy and Rt. 28. Really, I don't like the stretch between Rt. 50 and Fairfax County Pkwy. Shoulders are scarce, people drive fast, and traffic backs up from cloverleafs feeding onto rt. 66 west. I think the design was not meant to support the heavy traffic that area gets. Traffic comes to a sudden slowdown during rush hour from feeder lanes off the parkway. It's always a bit of a roller derby through that area.

Don't believe the County when they tell you they're widening the roads to alleviate traffic. They're really doing it to help their developer buddies. That's what the county told the public the last few times they've pushed road work through that area, and it's encouraged development which leads to continued heavy traffic.

They're not doing it for safety, either - another popular excuse for building more/bigger/faster roads for drivers to crash on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

A 2007 BMW, driven by 40-year-old Jonathyn Bland, was traveling west on I-66 when it struck the vehicle in front of it.

The BMW then collided with the tractor-trailer, driven by 34-year-old Shahbaz Singh of Fairfax.

The tractor-trailer then collided with several vehicles — including a Toyota Rav4 — before overturning. The Toyota Rav4 went off the right side of I-66 and over the jersey wall and then caught on fire.

Bland and Singh were transported to Reston Hospital for treatment of their injuries. They were both charged with reckless driving

I don't get why Singh was charged. Someone ran into him, his truck overturned. How was he reckless?

I haven’t seen either Singh’s or Bland’s tickets posted in the Fairfax County General District Court. This would show the particular statute under which they were charged. I wonder why they are not posted. It’s been several weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Allowing all these dockless cars is a policy that should be reexamined.

What is a dockless car?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trucks should not be allowed on roads during the day or heavy traffic.

iTA

[Anonymous]

Maybe the truck driver swerved to avoid the BMW in an unsafe manner. A BMW hitting a truck doesn't make it overturn. The truck driver must have tried to evade it. I can certainly sympathize if he was trying to not kill the guy but obviously you have to know that you're a truck and act accordingly.