Originally published at: Watch a compilation of 17 car crashes over the years in this dangerous Seattle freeway exit | Boing Boing
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Needs a bingo card. @wazroth?
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I can provide The Standard Bingo Card (v. 1.2) for reference, but we’ll need to see how discussion plays out on the topic before I can make a customized one.
(I feel like we’ve seen this or similar compilations before. Maybe I should review the comment histories there.)
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This may be glean-able from the posting, but from personal experience: this ‘fun’ exit (165B off of I-5) takes one from 55mph and full sunlight, through a rather dark tunnel, hard right turn, to full stop at at a cross street-light in let’say 220 meters (722 feet). And shorter than that if there are already cars stopped at the light ahead of you. If one isn’t familiar/ready for that stop …well, cue the Benny Hill Yakaty Sax music.
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Isn’t this a new “fully self-driving” car video?
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Yeeeeeeeehaaaawww!!
“Looks like them Duke boys have arrived in Seattle!”
Though that blog headline images of when I saw a crash up derby when I was very young, around 4, at a fair. I was crying and upset because they were going to get in trouble for crashing their cars.
I was such a rule follower.
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Reboing!
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Maybe people need to slow the fuck down and stop thinking they’re qualifying for the pole position at the Indy 500 every time they get behind the wheel?
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Let’s add that to the bingo card! @wazroth?
Seriously, though, I’ve taken this exit. Going from normal legal highway speed to this curve is a white-knuckle affair if you don’t know what to expect. You need to brake from 55 mph to about 20 mph in less than 100 yards. On a hairpin turn. Locals slow down out on the highway well before the signs warn about it.
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It did look like a Tesla in there at :56.
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Ah the Union st exit. I’ve never experienced an accident there, but even after taking it many times I still think it’s a bit startling.
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(furiously scribbles in notebook)
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they should paint the street orange there, like a hot wheels track
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I lived about a block away from that exit years ago; I tried to avoid it as much as possible.
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I have hunch it may be a reboing, but I’m probably imagining it.
ETA thanks @DukeTrout
The obvious bingo candidates will reveal themselves quickly. So I’m going to go for “they should put speed bumps on the exit road” 
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I lived in Seattle for two years. I have also lived in 6 other states and driven in 7 other countries. Washington state drivers are the absolute worst I have ever seen! 
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Really? I’ve seen worse.
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Oh that exit. Used a bunch when I lived there. Never really thought about it, but it is a bit weird now that I watch the video.
My complaint was always about the merge from the left onto a busy highway off the 520. Then to get to that exit you have to cross over three lanes, four lanes?
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It’s been a while - but I lived in Seattle in 1988 and then Everett, then Bellingham. But I would have to say you are 100% correct. Absolutely clueless drivers there.
Hopefully they have learned how to merge onto the freeway since then.
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