r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dangerous_Deal_1945 • Jun 03 '26

Video Seattle light rail service was suspended after a driver somehow got their SUV onto the tracks 30 feet above street level

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u/DrunkSpiderMan Jun 03 '26

Agreed. The amount of people who've almost killed me by not paying attention is too damn high

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u/Unable-Log-4870 Jun 03 '26

I had a friend whose grandpa hit and killed a cyclist. That cyclist was a cardiologist, in a rural area. There weren’t many cardiologists around. That could very well have resulted in the death of several people due to lack of medical care availability.

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u/Daveinatx Jun 03 '26

Live in Scottsdale?

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u/Captain_Pungent Jun 03 '26

Was crossing the road earlier today at the regular traffic lights but there was roadworks so the temp lights were also in place. Some fuckwit decided he was too important to wait with all the other cars and tried to jump the queue. If I'd been crossing from the other side of the road I wouldn't have seen him and there's a very high chance he'd had hit me. Fuckin clown bastard. Shame the folks doing the works didn't put a jackhammer through his precious Merc and just yelled like fuck at him. The sheer entitlement