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Out of boredom, I decided to dissect Nick’s accident thread from a couple years ago. Should’ve known something was up right away.

http://www.shift518.com/showthread.php?t=11001

@Sully93vr4

heard about it, sucks.
I guess thats what happens when you go the wrong way down a ONE WAY street… :eek

@NickAlero

Yup. Took some pictures too down there last night. There is NO do not enter sign on that one way road.
I can get the tickets dropped due to improper signage, which is one less thing to worry about, and thats all good and such, but I still have no car.

A little detail about the road, I used it everyday since January 14th to get there/back to/from RPI. If there was correct signage I think in over 250 trips through that neighborhood, I would have seen SOME kind of sign.
I dislike Troy heavily at the moment.

@NickAlero"

When Troy learns how to mark their roads I’ll be all set.

Whoever asked what street, it was Jacobs and 15th. Jacobs is now marked by a no entry sign halfway up the hill on the right side of the road, wasn’t there when I went through it, or through all of this last year apparently.

@NickAlero

Thanks for the well wishes.
I personally am OK, as is the other driver. No injuries is always a plus in accidents.

I was driving up Jacob’s St. in Troy, NY, at about 4:45. I am looking for 15th street, so my eyes are on road signs. Stop signs line the road around me. Every offshoot street has a stop sign. I see two roads ahead, one up a hill, and one directly ahead. Having seen stop signs on all previous roads, I proceed through the intersection. In the intersection, I look down and see double yellow lines. I know instantly I’m on 15th Street. I look left, and there’s a car hitting me. She strikes me in the front fender, and I strike her as I spin, sending her off the street.

I get out of my car, leaking oil, coolant, brake fluid, power steering fluid and anything else you can think of all over the road. Smoke plooms from under my car. I go over to her, to make sure she is ok, and she gets out of the car. We talk, as a bystander calls the police.

The road I came out of was a one way street, I was going in the opposite direction. The officer who arrives first gives me a ticket for going the wrong way, so naturally, only seeing the one way sign at the top of the road where I crashed, I ask to see the DO NOT ENTER sign, since there legally needs to be one, as not every driver knows Troy inside and out. There is none. The officer takes the ticket back, and rips it in half, cursing out his Troy. I lol’d a bit, this was the only funny part of my day.

I am at fault, but if it works out, this may be deemed to be the City of Troy’s fault. A new DO NOT ENTER sign went up a few hours after the accident.

We’ll see what happens with it all.

@1320-20V

So 250 trips down the same street and you never noticed all the parked cars were facing in the same (and opposite) direction???

Sorry about the car.

@NickAlero

Cars are parked BOTH ways, so that is an issue with using that logic.
If there was ANY hint of the road being a one way, I would have noticed it.

hmmm…

Every time I’ve been down the street, the cars face the same way

No signage eh?

15th and Jacob

14th and Jacob

13th and Jacob

12th and Jacob

… you get the idea

Obviously G maps has been updated since his accident in 09, but the signs have been there forever.

Couldn’t even own up to an accident that was 100% his fault years ago. Kid will never change.