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Hit and run on M Street


Older black 4w drive-type vehicle just involved in hit&run on M Street beside The Roosevelt. Took off east on M Street. Must be damaged, call 911 if you see’em

11 comments

John M 09/07/2014 at 3:15 PM

Car and driver have been located.

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crd 09/07/2014 at 3:27 PM

That was quick, glad to hear it!

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Max 09/07/2014 at 5:21 PM

It looks like this wasn’t the case here, but I’ve noticed a lot of cars parked behind the “no parking sign” such that it becomes very difficult to drive between the median and the car that’s parked there. I’ve been on a 45 bus that had to go up to N and back down to M on 26th street because he couldn’t get through. It’s a hit and run waiting to happen.

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Eric S. Huffstutler 09/07/2014 at 6:01 PM

Great. Throw the book at him but I would bet a dollar to a doughnut that they don’t have a penny’s worth of insurance as to why they fled!

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Bragda Pilates 09/07/2014 at 8:37 PM

Fast. Eric, good point well made

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Eric S. Huffstutler 09/07/2014 at 8:55 PM

There are all kinds of parking issues in the area as well as bad drivers.

By city code no one is suppose to park within 25-feet of the corner allowing people coming to the intersection to see around cars. When they are up to the corner you have to pull almost completely out into the intersection to see what is coming your way and could be too late.

Then there are people who like to cut corners rather than pull out further into an intersection and make a proper turn I know I had two different cars front bumpers clipped and damaged where I use to park indoors on the end of a row! When I pull up Canal Street to make a right onto 14th heading for Dock, people coming off 14th onto Canal will just about be on top of me cutting the corner.

And sorta related, Friday I was almost hit where a person behind someone at a stop sign just followed that person rather than also stop while I was pulling out. (and also illegal “rolling stops”)

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Kai 09/08/2014 at 9:12 AM

What about the parking situation on E Marshall near 18th and Cedar (as you come up the hill from the I-95 / Broad St. East exit)? This is a major entrance to the Church Hill / Union Hill / Fairfield area and is often a squeeze to get through now because of the parking situation there. Worse, people seem to double park on a regular basis at the corner there (18th and Cedar) – making safe navigation through the intersection an even greater challenge.

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Eric S. Huffstutler 09/08/2014 at 10:34 AM

Kai, I feel your pain as I pass through there too while people drive down the middle and you can’t make the turn onto it either. Are these people living at Cedar Broad and if so, why are they not parking in the parking lot provided for them in/under the building?

If they are VCU people then the city should enforce a restriction because I am sure it poses a fire hazard as well as traffic one?

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