Anonymous wrote:I make that left turn five days a week and if a car is in front of you turning left on to Braeburn Parkway as was the case in this accident, YOU CANNOT SEE oncoming traffic. It is so dangerous for both experienced and inexperienced drivers. It unfortunately was a tragic you waiting to happen.

If you can't see, you don't go. Period. You don't guess, or hope, or make a run for it. You sit there until you can see. I make a daily left turn off Route 28 that is similarly hopeless in terms of line of sight if a car is waiting to turn left from the other side, and I have sat there for upwards of 5 minutes before, waiting to be able to see a gap. It's annoying as all get-out, but when traffic is coming toward you at 50+ mph (speed limit is 40 but is routinely ignored), you can't afford to guess.

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Anonymous wrote:You Americans choose this level of car deaths, just as you chose your level of gun deaths.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/economist-explains-16

Sounds like Sweeden does a great job with managing the roads. Now maybe they can work on empathy. A kind word would have been nice. Imagine if one of those children were yours!!! Jesus!

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What an inappopriate comment, to say the least !

Anonymous wrote:I make that left turn five days a week and if a car is in front of you turning left on to Braeburn Parkway as was the case in this accident, YOU CANNOT SEE oncoming traffic. It is so dangerous for both experienced and inexperienced drivers. It unfortunately was a tragic you waiting to happen.

They were turning onto Pyle, not Braeburn. Well, maybe it's not Pyle Road at that point, but the service road going towards Whitman.

I make that left turn five days a week and if a car is in front of you turning left on to Braeburn Parkway as was the case in this accident, YOU CANNOT SEE oncoming traffic. It is so dangerous for both experienced and inexperienced drivers. It unfortunately was a tragic you waiting to happen.

So Tragic. There was another incident on that same road hours earlier just a mile or two up the road. They had to use the jaws of life to extricate someone involved in a multi vehicle colission around 3 this afternoon on River Rd. between Seven Locks and Bradley.

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine being the mom of any of the innocent passengers. I would be oh so mad at the driver. This doesn't sound like an inexperienced teen driver but a careless or distracted teen driver.

It may have been a mom driving. Some reports describe it as a Whitman family. No real info yet though so it's best not to draw conclusions yet.

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine being the mom of any of the innocent passengers. I would be oh so mad at the driver. This doesn't sound like an inexperienced teen driver but a careless or distracted teen driver.

You could be the driver's mom.

Anonymous wrote:This is tragic. I hope this leads the state of Maryland to take action and review both its driver training requirements and enforcement. How many more lives have to be lost?? This is so heartbreaking.

This is definitely the result of a tragic mistake, but I'm not sure MD's laws are the issue. What driver training requirements are inadequate? As for enforcement, we can't expect law enforcement on every corner, and for this type of accident (failure to yield), the officer wouldn't notice the violation until it's already too late.

There needs to be a traffic light at that intersection or the divide in the road should be closed off so no turns can be made and no drivers can cross the intersection from the perpendicular side streets. It is a very tricky and dangerous intersection. It wouldn't surprise me if the driver was not distracted.

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine being the mom of any of the innocent passengers. I would be oh so mad at the driver. This doesn't sound like an inexperienced teen driver but a careless or distracted teen driver.

We don't even know if it was a teen driver.

Earlier the News reported the accident wasn't related to the school.

Time and time again they speak too soon.

I can't imagine being the mom of any of the innocent passengers. I would be oh so mad at the driver. This doesn't sound like an inexperienced teen driver but a careless or distracted teen driver.

This is just terrible.

I live in Bethesda, and on Friday and Saturday nights I can hear what sounds like drag racing on River Road. I can't imagine how nothing has ever been done about that. It's a dangerous road.

The principal has pushed for some type of traffic control measures at that intersection but was rejected by state. Hopefully, they will revisit but I doubt it.

This is tragic. I hope this leads the state of Maryland to take action and review both its driver training requirements and enforcement. How many more lives have to be lost?? This is so heartbreaking.

Also wish people on this board would reflect on their own driving. The DC metropolitan area is the most dangerous in the country when you consider that Baltimore ranks the 3rd most dangerous, DC is the fourth most and Alexandria is around 10th.