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[quote=Anonymous]A bus crashed into Ambar's Shaw location this morning after it was hit by a car. Pic from the Fire Department's twitter account:

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFD6WKXX0AAqj8r?format=jpg&name=large[/img]

Thankfully this happened around 7am and not during the brunch service, otherwise it could've been a mass casualty event.

Someone on Reddit looked up the plates bc they were visible in a pic and they are Maryland tags with nearly $1,000 in unpaid tickets, all of which are for moving violations. https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1sc7qlb/metrobus_crash_shaw/

This is ridiculous. At what point is the city going to hold out of state drivers accountable and demand better for the people who actually live here. And I grew up in Virginia, I'm NOT saying Virginia and Maryland drivers are all inherently bad, but so many of these traffic fatalities are caused by out of state drivers with multiple unpaid tickets. In Virginia this would not happen because you either go to court to contest the ticket or you pay the fine by your court date. If you miss your court date and don't pay the fine, you face consequences.

I don't understand how we're going to get to zero pedestrian fatalities a year when this is allowed. [/quote]

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