[Screengrab via PIX11]
Police are searching for the BMW driver who cruised along the bike-jogging path adjacent to the FDR, abandoning the vehicle after it became wedged between the highway's retaining wall and Con Ed at 15th Street early this morning.
Per PIX11:
Police said the driver of the car fled the scene and was nowhere to be found.
Authorities do not know where the car entered the sectioned-off path or how it got stuck there.
WATCH: Tow truck lifts car out of bike path where it had been previously wedged on the N/B side of the FDR Drive near 14th street. No reports on injuries. HEAVY delays beyond Brooklyn Bridge @PIX11News pic.twitter.com/qs2QuWZUfn
— MARISSA TORRES PIX11 (@MarissaTorresTV) August 29, 2019
In July 2018, a woman driving a Porsche Cayenne managed the same feat...
@NY1 @patkiernan How did the driver even manage this? Blocked the fdr path this morning. #Bailedthrough thesunroof @Porsche pic.twitter.com/wBLY4yLhsx
— michael feldstein (@majy10016) July 27, 2018
Thankfully no one was injured in either reckless driving incident.
12 comments:
looking at their phone and not the (bike lane) road.
That’s actually a 2 way bike and jogging lane, and one of the worst bottlenecks for cyclists and pedestrians in the entire city. Maybe the car was attempting to make it wider.
Jesus thats scary. I use it all the time. Fyi. Not for bikes to be ridden through. You are supposed to get off and walk it, as per signage, but no one does.
The only way to enter this area with a car is all the way down on South St. right by pier 36.
How the fuck does one manage to do this?
So in both cases the drivers walk away scot free. Minus a luxury auto I suppose. And then of course law enforcement acts all bewildered as to what could've happened or who could possibly have done it, as if there's no way to identify owners of registered automobiles.
Wish that law enforcement would go after these people with at least half the fervor with which they go after cyclists running reds. In my book, ending up miles deep into a park on a pedestrian only path, too drunk on alcohol to realize that a car doesn't fit into a four foot wide pedestrian corridor, should be considered a serious offense, like a felony. These were both obviously early morning DUIs which could easily have taken innocent lives. At the very least shows a blatant disregard for others' lives. How can you have a society where you just kind of look the other way at these kind of offenses.
If you want to murder someone in NYC, do it with a car. You'll walk free, for sure.
Agree with what anon @10:08 said
I rode by there yesterday and there was still debris all over the path from the bumper that exploded when they ran out of room. I had to dodge several large pieces of plastic and metal. The least these drivers could do is clean up after themselves after an accident, but drivers regularly leave the debris from their accidents all over the place for others to trip over or to get a flat tire.
Perhaps the Department Of Sanitation should start a policy to clean up after these accidents and send the driver the bill. But only after they figure out how to get their stinky garbage trucks off of 10th Street and park them somewhere else.
Also, to add to 10:08’s comment, how did these drivers not notice all the pedestrians, cyclists and joggers during their 2+ mile drive on a road that had no other cars? It’s as if making dangerous U turns is only an option on Avenue B or on a busy 2 way street.
This won't be a problem or a possibility for much longer, that's for sure.
BMW driver.
Wow. I'm shocked. /s
Not for bikes to be ridden through. You are supposed to get off and walk it, as per signage, but no one does.
A person walking alongside their bike takes up twice as much room as a person riding it. Just what you don’t want in a tight spot. Guess that never occurred to the genius that thought up this silly signage.
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