Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Car crash on Wightman Road
Some time this morning this black car driving northwards swerved to avoid a car speeding south in the middle of the road between Hewitt and Alison Roads. The driver avoided a head-on collision but smashed into the red car which was pushed backwards into the lime green car. Both of these belong to my neighbours:
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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So, not being funny, but the force needed to move the red car back and do the damage it has clearly done to the green one might indicate that the black car was itself doing more than 20mph, or am I wrong?
I hate driving on Wightman, my heart is in my mouth every time I have to navigate those chicanes- there are so many lazy drivers who cut the corners, and I always wonder if this is the moment I lose my wing...
I should add I am really sorry for your neighbours having to now deal with this.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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You are probably right in thinking the black car must have been moving faster than 20mph but, so far as I know, there were no witnesses. I met only my neighbours who had the story from the driver of the black car. It was said that the police wished to identify the driver who didn't stop.
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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1
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The trouble (well one of them) with a lot of these SUVs is that they are heavy which means they do more damage when they crash into something.
Wightman is a terrible road though, it feels like a lot of drivers are heading straight for you
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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WIGHTMAN Road is the most local example of the very best that the council's Highwaymen can do.
A few years ago, roughly a million pounds of public money was spend on tinkering. Which at least managed to delete their misconceived Pavement Parking.
That showed (a) it is technically possible to remove pavement-parking and (b) demonstrates that the retention of the remaining 100+ roads with pavement-parking is likely to be a political decision.
SUVs are indeed heavier than the average motor (Musk's ugly Cybertruck weighs three tonnes).
However they are also part of a trend in new vehicles to bloat. As a small example, compare the girth of the four or five-door "Mini" with the original 1960s Mini.
Drivers of fatter and wider cars are likely to find it harder to avoid collisions.
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on
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I wouldn't want to question the driver's honesty, but the story of another car being involved can be used to justify an accident that was simply down to speeding. Maybe some doorbell/CCTV footage may emerge. I always drive with front and rear cameras, and I'd strongly advise anyone else to do the same.
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Hi
I saw the headline for this and thought it was about a car crash i witnessed about 2 weeks ago, maybe 13th March, around 10:30pm.
I was coming home from work and the road was closed off by police, 3 police cars, 2 ambulances and at least 1 fire engine. Crowd of residents had come out to see what was going on.
2 car collision and one of the drivers looked to be stuck in their vehicle, hence fire brigade.
Wightman, as it stands, with drivers driving how they are, is dangerous. IN fact, the various factors - narrow road, chiccanes, no separate cycle lane meaning drivers do short speedy overtakes on the opposite side, turning from joining road onto Wightman pushes the car turning onto opposite risde of road etc etc - mean high risk of accident which is playing out.
I didn;t take a photo, should have and I should have emailed one of our local coucillors which i now may.
Re the speed of the black car red car lime green car collision. Even if the driver was doing 20mph. If they swerved suddenly with no time to brake, a 1 Tonne vehicle moving at 20mph carries huge force. So could very well have been at that speed when it hit the red car.
Paul
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Permalink Reply by John Grover
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OOPS !!!!!!!
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