Crash on Vanderbilt Ave - anyone hurt?

Holy bejebuz! I hope everyone is OK. And once I find out that's true I'm going to get right to being pissed that those trees are gone. We just got those trees!

I saw the driver get taken away on a stretcher. He was conscious and in a cervical collar - but I couldn't really tell much beyond that. Hopefully he's ok.

Aside from the tree, he's lucky there was nobody standing in the median crosswalk. I'm stilll kind of confused how he managed to take out the tree and then end up lodged on the opposite side of the median.

^^^ It's more like the electronic version of "damn, there was a Jeep on the median on Vandy - anyone know what happened and is everyone ok?"

Well, if this post didn't exist, we'd be answering the "what happened to the trees on Vanderbilt?" post that would likely appear.

I'm pretty sure what happened was the guy drove up onto the median - clipped the tree support for the first tree, took out the 2nd tree entirely, drove through the pedestrian cutout and then _over_ the metal "safety" bollards before coming to a stop with the bollard under his rear tire. Yikes.

I was always a little skeptical that those bollards could stop a speeding car...I don't think I'll be standing in the median any more when traffic is flowing.

this is how it must have looked from the inside & then the out

We saw him last night as we were walking home from Le Gamin (yum, BTW). He seemed to be searching for something in his wallet and slightly disoriented, perhaps just shaken from the accident. I don't know if I felt bad for him, it was more like I felt upset and concerned that this was the second crash on the same damn median in 3 days. WTF?

It looked like he went strait into it from Park, but that seemed weird, maybe he was making a last minute or wide right turn onto Vanderbilt and didn't see the guard bump things. The driver looked sad in his car, it seemed like a mental mistake but his car was pretty smashed and literally stuck.