Seattle Police arrested a 28-year-old Capitol Hill man in Saturday night’s reported hit and run involving a Car2Go vehicle striking a bicyclist at the intersection of Bellevue Ave and E Olive St.If you've ever seen a Smart Car up close, you know that it is rather unlikely that you could run over a bottle cap without knowing it.
According to an SPD report on the incident, officers were able to track the driver down at his Capitol Hill apartment with help from the car sharing service. Saturday night, Car2Go was able to provide the name and address of the person who had last rented the car reported by the victim and witnesses at the scene of the 8:30 PM incident and also located the vehicle — still checked out to the suspect — at E Thomas and Harvard Ave where it sat with “fresh damage to the front end.” We’ve asked Car2Go for more information about its policies regarding this type of incident but have not yet heard back from the company.
The 28-year-old booked on investigation of hit and run of a pedestrian told police he was driving the Smart Car at the time of the hit and run but was not aware of having hit anybody.
I wonder whether the driver would have tested over 5 ng/ml?
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Ya know, I've got my doubts about whether it's much safer to be hit by a "SmartCar" at 2000 lbs or so than by an F350 at 8000. Anything over about 5-10mph is going to involve a good long hospital stay.
It would be interesting to see the accident rates for Car2Go drivers vs. other urban drivers. I would guess that occasional drivers would have somewhat higher crash rates.
Agreed that an infringement of the 5ng/ml limit might come into play here, though.
It would be interesting to see the accident rates for Car2Go drivers vs. other urban drivers. I would guess that occasional drivers would have somewhat higher crash rates.
I'm sure consideration of and hedging against that possibility is a big part of their business plan.
I can't speak to Car2Go's policies, but I got a ZipCar membership when we first moved to Seattle (long story, but the short version is that I had to leave our car in NC for a while) and my driving record had to be pretty much spotless within the last several years to join. My wife couldn't join because she had only had an American DL for a little less than three years at that point.
Being a rather occasional driver myself these days (albeit with my own car) I think I'm actually more vigilant, because driving is much less routine. And less likely to crash, because I'm avoiding high traffic times (I pretty much only ever drive on weekends and very occasionally on weekday evenings.)
a Smart, even at higher speed, will tend to have a an impact that is lower on the body than say, a Ford F-150. the lower 3rd of the human body is essentially non-essential.
impacts become progressively worse the higher up the body they go after that.
get yer foot run over... you'll be fine compared to having your head run over.
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