yes, that bend is a accident area. last time, while preparing
for a safety campaign, we were given a lot of clips of accidents
captured by EMAS and J-Eyes, and oh man, a lot of the accidents
happen there.
there was a case of a guy who turned at a right-turning bend side
too fast and since blind spot, hit a taxi in front at 2am. after
that, at intervals of no less than 20 mins, there are near misses
and even more accidents cos all keep slamming into the sandwich,
and those who tried to escape drifted either into the mess or away,
and the debris just spills onto the middle lane. recovery vehicle
come, with flashing lights, also kena bang. the whole incident
finally ended at 3.30am when they managed to move all the vehicles
to the left shoulder. duh.
i also seen a pickup, for no reason, at lunch time at aye, bright
weather, from the right most lane cannot turn right slide quickly
onto the left barrier. luckily the traffic slowed down enough not
to bang into him.
basically the area is full of blind spots 'cos of the double bends,
but the design was made based on historical reasons (alignment of
and proximity to whitley rd). i suppose what LTA can do is to put
exceeding numbers of warning signs at that junction and speed
camera. come to think of it, why no speed camera there???
