AI6YR BenMar 2

Daily Cameraa: Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Dominiq Ponder dies at age 23

Junior football player died after single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning

"...Ponder’s vehicle was going westbound on Baseline Road when he lost control of the car on a right-hand curve, went across the eastbound lane and hit a guardrail, according to the release.

“The vehicle continued through the guardrail,” the CSP release stated. “The Tesla then struck an electrical line pole and rolled down an embankment landing on its wheels and catching on fire. The driver was pronounced dead on scene.”...

#tesla #incineration #death

Show threadMcNadoMDMar 2
@ai6yr the most surprising part of this is that there was a guardrail. Now I’m curious where on Baseline…
Show threadAI6YR BenMar 2

@mcnado

Here you go... looks like he must have been going too fast and failed the right turn, went through the guardrail and into that power pole there, and undoubtedly rolled off somewhere beyond the power pole. Amazing actually he didn't continue into the house beyond the power pole.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Newland+Ct+%26+Baseline+Rd,+Colorado+80303/@40.0001032,-105.1949428,3a,75y,259.07h,83.95t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQXfMUKXCAaxt2F5HfD-Z5Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D6.053895491847186%26panoid%3DQXfMUKXCAaxt2F5HfD-Z5Q%26yaw%3D259.0692840349005!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x876bf267ec53a623:0xe5c5554b523b27a7!8m2!3d40.0009161!4d-105.1970111!16s%2Fg%2F11gf45ww9d!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Show threadMcNadoMDMar 2
@ai6yr figured it must have been there. Westbound on Baseline is not a high guardrail dense area. The lake would have eaten his car if he was much farther on…
Show threadAI6YR BenMar 2
@mcnado Right and left turns here after long straightaways in our neighborhood do the same thing. Even worse of course are "T" intersections. Never, ever buy or rent a house or sit at a coffee shop table at the end of a T-intersection, LOL. Just like, never sit at a cafe table with a handicap parking spot and no planter or bollard in front 😬 (that one, having heard too many stories from paramedics about deaths and lower limbs lost at those tables locally).. this you know, of course.
Show threadMcNadoMD

@ai6yr these guys have put a second set of large(r) boulders on their lawn, and their neighbor put up a giant LED board with a flashing red arrow.

https://www.9news.com/article/traffic/home-5-car-crash-16-months-denver/73-592a599a-a19c-46eb-83e1-6981c4d83972

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Show threadAI6YR BenMar 2
@mcnado Holy carp!!! I'd move.
Show threadMcNadoMDMar 2
@ai6yr the worst part is the city could just put bollards on the parkway median on Monaco there, but noooo
Show threadSupermoosieMar 2

@mcnado @ai6yr

Cheaper to glue some solar powered driveway lights down.

Show threadMcNadoMDMar 2
@SuperMoosie @ai6yr the problem is people flying up a 35 mph road at 70 mph, ignoring the giant reflective arrow, crossing the parkway, hitting the median, losing control, and going airborne off the curb on the far side of the other lane of the parkway, before going another 30 yards up the lawn and into the house.