Horrible news that’s all too common here. Hope she fully recovers.

Oo word, I’m way more active on Insta, but the next mixer I’m thinking will be queer centric.

Woohoo!

Played “beat the light”

https://www.wfsb.com/2023/02/26/18-year-old-sustains-life-threatening-injuries-after-being-struck-by-truck-new-haven/

https://www.wfsb.com/2023/02/26/18-year-old-sustains-life-threatening-injuries-after-being-struck-by-truck-new-haven/

Just bought tickets! Very excited

Thats New Haven. While Yale is especially bad, people all over the city cross when and wherever they please.

I’m NYC it is lol

Yale police send emails to active employees.

They also send text messages about ongoing “situations” and anything that comes up. So you need to stop.

Second, I am friends with several Yale police. I get details. I’ve been out of the loop for the last year, but it’s not hard to ask about what’s going on. Something always is.

Yeah, this area is quite safe.

Given how hyperbolic your comment is (yea, nobody has been shot in front of the architecture school or in the broadway triangle…) I’m really not inclined to believe you absent a news article corroborating a single violent crime in that area.

The amount of sexual assault and attacks that happens there obviously have not reached you over 4 years. I worked near there for 4 years.

Yale as a whole is a mess anyway.

That’s quite possible one of the safest areas of New Haven. It is so far within the Yale umbrella that it might as well be a freshman courtyard. It’s also right next to the Study.

I lived two blocks down from there for nearly five years and never experienced anything like you’re describing.

If the car wasn’t speeding and driven under intoxication, and doesn’t have time to react, it can be fully the pedestrian’s fault.

Yep. I’m very careful driving in the area of Yale because of this. They DO NOT pay attention when crossing. Amazing no one taught them this.

Agreed so much. The infrastructure needs to discourage dangerous driving.

So it’s ok to run them over because they didn’t have the right of way?

Very nice. New Haven is a neighborhood with lots of people, including children who do not always have great situational awareness. It has a 25mph speed limit and traffic lights. There would be fewer accidents if drivers stopped treating it like their personal raceway.

Whatever dude. I never said it was "OK" so go ahead and knock that bullshit off right now.

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Ask the Yale Police if that area is safe.

FWIW it was reported in On the Scene media that the apparent driver remained on scene.

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Just to add to the chorus of “you are wrong”

You can review this OLR article, which discusses the instances where pedestrians do not have right of way (including outside of a crosswalk or when the intersection is controlled by a traffic signal)

You are correct that we don’t know the circumstances but Elm/York is controlled by a signal, so it is possible the student here was crossing against the signal.

I run outside a lot and my wife works at Yale New Haven. She frequently reminds me of how many people who had the right of way still end up in the ER. It is very unfortunate but you need to be aware of your surroundings and wary of bad drivers. This is not victim blaming it is just good advice that’ll maybe keep you alive when encountering bad drivers.

Breaking a minor law that was advocated for by industry shouldn't result in serious injury or death. Do Yalies have abysmal situational awareness? Yes. Should infrastructure also decrease the amount of times 2000lb moving objects have the potential to hit 120lb ones? Also yes.