At 10 p.m. last night we heard the wailing of sirens, then saw a helicopter descend amidst the houses several blocks away. About half an hour later the helicopter rose and headed south. Today’s news explained the unusual activity in our sleepy suburb. A young woman had sped along Edgewater Blvd. and crashed her Thunderbird into a house. Firefighters used the jaws of life to extricate her from the pancaked car, and a helicopter transported her to Stanford Hospital. Her condition has improved to serious from critical.
Fortunately, no one else was hurt. However, a support post was sufficiently damaged to cause the building to be declared uninhabitable, and the elderly resident will have to move out.
Five years ago we had seen a similar accident a block up the street. No one was home in that one, and the young man driving the car walked away. The homeowners have since built a brick-and-iron fence around their property.
Edgewater Blvd. seems safe enough to me at the speed limit of 40 mph (25 while school is in session), but parents whose kids attend the two nearby schools may beg to differ. The City will probably increase police patrols and install four-way stop signs or speed bumps to slow drivers down. Traffic restrictions, like artery plaque, build up and are rarely reversed.
The accident in 2004.
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