They said she was charged with fleeing the scene of an accident involving death, a Class D felony.RockChalkSTL wrote: ↑Apr 07, 2025Didn't she tell the police that she was nowhere near the accident? I feel like that's the biggest no-no she committed.
And has had several other traffic violations.Baltimore Jack wrote: ↑Apr 07, 2025She also admitted she'd been drinking and smoked Marijuana that day.
She shouldn't be behind the wheel again IMO
Terrible but very common these days. Nothing will change until there is a political will to enforce traffic rules. I've seen pillars set up in front of buildings on main roads all over north city cause of this.quincunx wrote: ↑May 14, 2025Screenshot_20250514-065436.png
In this instance it’s very clearly road safety design improvements and not police enforcement that is the answer.flipz wrote:Terrible but very common these days. Nothing will change until there is a political will to enforce traffic rules. I've seen pillars set up in front of buildings on main roads all over north city cause of this.quincunx wrote: ↑May 14, 2025Screenshot_20250514-065436.png
Clearly? This isn't some funky intersection that is hard to navigate. Manchester in the grove is one of the best pedestrian roads in STL and Boyle is smaller. If anything the person was clearly driving too fast. Nobody is enforcing speeding or anything else really.Debaliviere91 wrote: ↑May 14, 2025In this instance it’s very clearly road safety design improvements and not police enforcement that is the answer.flipz wrote:Terrible but very common these days. Nothing will change until there is a political will to enforce traffic rules. I've seen pillars set up in front of buildings on main roads all over north city cause of this.quincunx wrote: ↑May 14, 2025Screenshot_20250514-065436.png
Yes. Clearly. Like obviously clearly.flipz wrote: ↑May 14, 2025Clearly? This isn't some funky intersection that is hard to navigate. Manchester in the grove is one of the best pedestrian roads in STL and Boyle is smaller. If anything the person was clearly driving too fast. Nobody is enforcing speeding or anything else really.Debaliviere91 wrote: ↑May 14, 2025In this instance it’s very clearly road safety design improvements and not police enforcement that is the answer.flipz wrote: Terrible but very common these days. Nothing will change until there is a political will to enforce traffic rules. I've seen pillars set up in front of buildings on main roads all over north city cause of this.
The only thing they seem to be able to come up with is speed bumps every 200 ft.
Enforcement is a limited resource. We didn’t slash our violent crime rates substantially over the last couple years by having the police focus on writing speeding tickets. There’s only so much we can reasonably do with that.Baltimore Jack wrote:Lack of enforcement is incentive to speed.
Let these a holes know they can be caught and have the book thrown at them.
Totally agree. Making some of these fairly basic changes to the road would be such a more effective and efficient way to improve safety and reduce speeding.Auggie wrote:Yes. Clearly. Like obviously clearly.flipz wrote: ↑May 14, 2025Clearly? This isn't some funky intersection that is hard to navigate. Manchester in the grove is one of the best pedestrian roads in STL and Boyle is smaller. If anything the person was clearly driving too fast. Nobody is enforcing speeding or anything else really.Debaliviere91 wrote: ↑May 14, 2025In this instance it’s very clearly road safety design improvements and not police enforcement that is the answer.
The only thing they seem to be able to come up with is speed bumps every 200 ft.
The Grove is one of the best pedestrian areas in the city, yet it doesn't feel like that when you're walking. The asphalt is terrible, there's no daylighting at intersections, none of the crosswalks are raised, the traffic lights are all on wires, there's no use of bollards, there's no speed humps to force cars to slow down, the lanes on Manchester are needlessly wide, the curbs are too short....etc etc etc.
All of these factors result in people driving too fast. And what do you think a cop would do? Try to pull them over? What happens when they flee? Now everyone is at even greater risk.
The clear and obvious solution to car violence is to build our infrastructure in a way that lowers the incentive to speed and recklessly drive. The cities in this country that have very low traffic accidents and deaths didn't get their numbers through police enforcement.
