Crash off Hwy 255
Fire engine responding from Arcata Fire to the report of a vehicle into the water. [ [Screengrab from Caltrans Traffic Cam]
A dispatcher requested that firefighters respond with swimmers. However, when firefighters arrived on scene about 10:35 p.m., they found one vehicle off the roadway but no one trapped in the vehicle.
With no patient on scene, most responders were allowed to cancel their response.
According to the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page, emergency personnel found a Mazda about 10 feet off the roadway into a ditch.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
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Zoom zoom!
So in a driver at fault that results in a vehicle with fluids in a watershed in the driver or the insurance responsible for cleanup costs?
Zoom zoom! BAMMMM!
We just returned from Seattle and I have never seen so much aftermath of car accidents along our route. Admittedly, the weather was horrific, but many drivers now seem to have decided the only limiting factor of the speed they drive is whether or not there is another car in front of them. This did not appear to end well for some. But, who knows? Maybe the accidents were due to driving on worn tires? In any case, some people need to take more responsibility on the roads or the carnage will keep increasing.
Self removal from the gene pool in action.
But they can create “collateral damage.” Not good.
The Darwin effect.
California drivers in general refuse to adjust driving for ambient weather and traffic conditions. Snow, rain, wind, sleet, darkness, it’s all the same. Residential street? Pedal to the metal, devil take the hindmost.