Three Car Accident - The 4 Way Stop Rule Of Power Outages

This happened just after the power went out in a large part of Pierce County. Witnesses stated that the car nor the SUV on it's side stopped or yeilded when the intersection went dark. The driver of the other SUV was not at fault, and was stopped waiting to make a right turn. Banged up it was, but it went home that night.

No life thratening injuries, just some pissed off drivers!

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[goose1220]

NNOOoooOOOOooOOoOo....  another subaru... what's the world coming to?! It's like people see a little rain drop/snow/wind and all of the sudden they forget how to drive...

[VX2100DV]

I agree, and thier driving is only getting worse!

[Partspare]

In general, controlled intersections tend to actually get more efficient when the stop lights quit working. Since it's a stated fact that neither driver yielded at the intersection, this incident is simply a result of careless driving and not really a function of the intersection or prevailing conditions.

[VX2100DV]

I agree. But for some reason this winter, either through inattentiveness, or just not caring, the number of these types of accidents took a big jump and more than likely a record has been set. Sort of like the record number of CO2 poisonings we had in the December outage.

[AuntBee09]

gees, that looks bad. there were so many ppl that didn't know wat to do with uncontrolled intersections when the power went out. it was kinda scary

[VX2100DV]

This is the only accident that happened during this outage. It was worse with the December 14th windstorm. A lot of people became dumb drivers at those intersections. Scary!

[BuggsBonnie]

@DarkMuu666....that sucks. At least the moron didn't kill you. Thank goodness for that.

[DarkMuu666]

Yeah, I lost my car to the Tulsa power outage of 07 because some moron in an SUV didn't notice there was a stop sign. :(

[BuggsBonnie]

It is absolutely amazing to me how many driver's don't know that an intersection becomes a 4-way stop during a power outage. It's crazy. You have to be very careful because I've seen so many people just blaze through these intersections when the power is out. Beware of the idiot drivers....they kill innocent people every day.

[videofanatic9]

u need to edit this, this vid coould get removed for showing the lisence plates

[nytemareXXX]

wtf?...your a moron...speak english...

[ikuybaka]

Well a lot of white lady don't stop so.. there you go

[PAULABCDEFG12]

Those SUV's are so easy to turn over, but at least it was able to drive home.

[tman383]

Ouch.