Pretty sure that's just one of the dark seams in the road.
Yeah, it looks like that line was a road seam, not a skid mark:
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Pretty sure that's just one of the dark seams in the road.
I am curious about the extent of the front end damage to the model x. Even if there is nothing between the car and the concrete divider, I would have expect a severely crumpled front structure rather than a one that's completely sheared away. It's almost as if the car hit it sideway rather than head on. Just very strange to me.
I nominate TEG as the Official Forensics Investigator of TMC.
I really am impressed at how you have analyzed so much of this and pointed out numerous factors involved in this crash. Many of which potentially could have avoided a tragic death.
...The SMART CUSHION® attenuators use a patented system for stopping vehicles. The system is speed dependent and stops small and large vehicles by automatically regulating the stopping force exerted on a vehicle. Essentially, the system provides the necessary forces based on the speed of the vehicle automatically compensating for the mass of the vehicle...
...Maintenance: SMART CUSHION® impact attenuators are low-maintenance units. In a two-year inservice evaluation report submitted to the Federal Highway Administration, the average cost of parts to repair the SMART CUSHION® impact attenuator was $39, excluding two catastrophic impacts. More than four out of five of the reported repairs only required two shear bolts costing under $2. A trained, two-person maintenance crew can return most impacted SMART CUSHION® attenuators to full service within 30 minutes. This short repair time reduces the maintenance workers' exposure to traffic and minimizes motorist inconvenience. Side impacts usually result in no damage to the impact attenuator....
And the paint is pretty bad too, although am sun makes that hard to see regardless.This looks particularly confusing to me:
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That is from today. I could totally see someone reading that and thinking they needed to get out of the HOV lane and start moving to the right there.
It was probably a good idea to lay that barricade warning sign flat. If it were left up, winds and passing cars could blow it over, causing a traffic hazard, including cars changing lanes or swerving to avoid an object on the highway. From Hourly Weather Forecast for Mountain View, CA (94043) - The Weather Channel | Weather.com, looks like it could get windy on Sunday.Here is what it looks like today:
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Someone collapsed that barricade warning sign and set it on top of the smart cushion rails. Is that sign just left there to open up again when the next accident happens?
Someone put one cone on each side now instead of both on the left. I wonder who is deciding the cone placements there?
The X chewed up those warning chevrons.
It's likely Caltrans.What gov't agency has authority to maintain road safety devices and what is their contact information? And who supervises them and has firing and funding authority for them? Someone needs to make some changes.
At least sand or water barrels should be dropped the same day after the accident is cleared.
Deadly negligence by the agency failing to maintain the road safety devices.