Hmm… I wonder if that rather large snowbank pilled up in the middle of the road had anything to do with this accident?

This one not due to ‘warmer winter temperatures’?

No slinky… but somehow this would be Harper’s fault? ;-)

Lady driver…lol

It looks like the white SUV was travelling south on Winnipeg and collided with the red sedan which was driving east on 9th and was likely turning right onto Winnipeg south.

If that is the case, then the SUV had the right of way, unless the traffic signal was red or amber.

Anyone else have a scenario that fits the positioning of the cars, the damage, and the debris on the road at the intersection?

BTW, if that is the scenario, the snowbank would have acted like a soft no post guardrail and prevented the SUV from possibly entering the northbound lane of Winnipeg.

Could be the red car was traveling south-west on Winnipeg and the SUV was turning onto Winnipeg from 9th by the old blue corner store for Duchess kids and didn’t see the car over the snowbank until too late.

There are skid marks visible from the debris to the front tire of the red 4 door in a fairly straight line.

But the RCMP will figure it out

Could be, and they will…. not sure whether anyone will follow up on it though to let us know. Usually does not happen.

We have learned that we must mind our own business, and many will take the opportunity to tell us so. :-).

You are right though. Winnipeg Street is a little askew of a North-South direction. I was using it nominally.

Maybe if the city plowed some fricken roads, visibility would improve. And,,, Shame on you for thinking that this maybe a female driver and her fault,,,ppl get into accidents in this town no matter what the gender,,,more men than not I would say.

willyj on December 31 2013 2:29 AM YOU SAY:

“Maybe if the city plowed some fricken roads, visibility would improve. And,,, Shame on you for thinking that this maybe a female driver and her fault,,,ppl get into accidents in this town no matter what the gender,,,more men than not I would say.”
Shame on YOU willyj for just taking a look at this picture and then blaming the city. Take a good look at that picture. If people in this town, cannot drive on a wet black-top road, with NO snow on it… and cannot see over that amount of a windrow in the middle – I suggest they should NOT be on the roads at all. Male or female. As you can see in the picture posted that the snow in the middle doesn’t even come close to the bottom of their windows. That would mean they have 100% visibility. No excuses willyj.

Shame on ANYONE who cannot drive in the conditions above and then blame it on gender or the city! Look both ways, proceed ONLY when safe to do so.

Texting! Maybe someone was distracted.

I’ll put my guess in as the same scenario as Gus, another “slow to 40km/h to turn right on a red” driver that this town seems full of.
Of course that is speculation from the picture. It could also have been Harper :D

hello I can see where willyj is coming from, the city does not clear snow very well, I know that the last snow fall I got about 8 inches Saturday night. I went to town on Sunday and nothing was done not the highway not the main roads, also some streets had turned from two lanes to one and a half. the only cleared pavement I saw was in parking lots. maybe this accident was not from snow, but the point is the city is not good with snow.

Hello?, I tend to agree with you on this one! While I wouldn’t wish a traffic accident on anyone, not even a small fender bender, the fault for any accident can’t be attributed to a wet road, any icy road or even a pile of snow. The wet road, icy road and the pile of snow aren’t doing anything! They just lay there, doing nothing at all! Sadly, the fault for most accidents falls to often to the loose nut behind the wheel! Somebody didn’t signal, or didn’t yield the right of way, or zigged when they should have zagged! I’m sure that we have all heard the one about how the tree jumped out in front of the driver!

In this case, it seems like the accident wasn’t too serious and thankfully there were no serious injuries, other than to a few pocketbooks! Hopefully some will take this story as a warning to slow down, pay attention, drive with both headlights and taillights on, wear seat belts, etc.

Many years ago, the late actor Michael Conrad portrayed Sgt. Phil Esterhaus of the TV series Hill Street Blues. He used to end every episode’s roll call with the same warning to his men “Let’s be careful out there”! Words to live by when we put the key in the ignition and give it a turn!

Not many days ago there was another TV character who would exclaim while belonging to this scenario with the word, “Doh!!”. Carry on.

Someone took a picture of one of the vehicles and it’s driver just before the accident!

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People#1 on December 30 2013 6:52 PM

No slinky… but somehow this would be Harper’s fault? ;-)

I think Harper ought to be grateful to you for standing up for him regardless of what troubles he gets himself into. ;-)