DC Fire and EMS respond to a crash on the 3000 block of Pineview Court Northeast. Image by DC FEMS.
We’re not quite halfway through May, but this month alone it’s evident that you don’t have to be in the street to end up in the path of a motorist.
In the first 10 days of May alone, we’ve counted at least six separate reported incidents of drivers crashing their cars where they’re not supposed to be: into sidewalks and buildings. Injuries have been reported; people have been displaced from their homes.
You’d be forgiven for not being able to keep track of it all. So we gathered up all the incidents we could find. Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of where drivers have jumped curbs in DC so far this month: