A driver who failed to stop at a red light caused a car crash at the Egan Drive and Mendenhall Loop Road intersection at about 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, according to the Juneau Police Department.
Sgt. Chris Gifford wrote in a release that the 65-year-old driver of a 1999 Dodge truck failed to stop at the light while traveling inbound on Egan and slammed into a 2004 Chevrolet Tracker, driven by a 36-year-old woman.
The woman, whose name was not released, was taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, police said. The Chevrolet was totaled.
Police identified the 65-year-old man as Timothy Corrigan and said he was cited for failing to stop at a red light. His vehicle sustained about $5,000 in damages.
Police do not suspect alcohol or drugs were involved in the crash, JPD spokesman Sgt. Chris Burke said in an interview. Texting wasn’t a factor either, he said.
“It was more of driver inattention,” he said.
• Contact reporter Emily Russo Miller at 523-2263 or at emily.miller@juneauempire.com.
Comments (13)
Add commentdriver inattention
yeah and I must have passed 10 people while I was driving from the valley to town, who were either on their cell phones or -I suspect- texting. Please folks, PAY ATTENTION when you're driving. Our traffic flow will only increase now that spring & summer are almost here. Thanks and God bless.
I doubt...
...that the 65 year old guy was texting.
Whatever happened to the grand AKDOT vision of putting in interchanges for each intersection on Egan?
both of you guys
lol
yellow light
Does not mean hurry up and get through the light before it turns red....
read the article Superhero
he didn't run a yellow light, he ran a red light. pretty big difference. Perhaps you should reread a DMV drivers manual in the near future. A yellow light is to "clear the intersection", a driver needs to access A, if there is enough time to stop safely when a yellow light is present taking into consideration traffic around him or her, weather conditions etc. This is a direct quote out of the Alaska DMV drivers manual > "YELLOW BALL
A red light is about to appear. Stop unless you are already
within the intersection, or so close to the intersection that
you cannot stop safely. If the light changes to yellow as
you enter the intersection, you may proceed with extreme
caution. "
Egan really wants to be a Freeway...
...at least to a point, possibly as far as Brotherhood Bridge. Merging ramps and exit ramps for the four main intersections and a resolution for the Fred Meyer's thing would finally fix Egan and make it as safe as it can be.
I think that people are simply used to running full speed - 60 mph at a yellow traffic light. I believe that the public in general will realize how much safer a drive thru freeway type system will be after it is built, not before.
I also think a under or overpass solution with exit/entry ramps for Egan could be possible at the Nugget Mall intersection with Egan. Traffic wanting Glacier Highway from Nugget Mall could avoid the Egan traffic altogether by ducking or going over the whole thing on a overpass.
Another small adjustment needed is the West bound entry to Brotherhood bridge. There is always a dope trying to pass on the right to cut off people in the left lane in a forced merge situation.
countthis
I think superhero was trying to say he probably had time to stop but decided to speed through the yellow light and miscalculated his time. In other words: he ran the red light.
too busy painting new lines
hey Lat DOT is too busy painting new lines and making the medium a skosh wider at that intersection to "improve visibility" to think about a real solution for that intersection. I make that left hand turn every single day inbound off of Egan at the Fred Meyers intersection and the work DOT did there improved NOTHING. I wonder how much money was spent to supposedly make it safer? What a joke. Build a flyway or an overpass there DOT before more people get killed or do you have to have a certain "body count" to justify the expense??
fin
that's exactly it.. I guess people like to argue for the sake of arguing, rather than thinking about what a person is actually trying to say..
The solution
All that needs to happen is have a video feed of the intersection wi-fi'ed straight to a trooper vehicle at the far side of the interestion.
Run a red light, get pulled over and fined. It's not rocket science. But wait, lawyers will agrue it's an invasion of privacy or there's not probable cause or some other B.S.
Keep That Pork A Rollin'
Well, folks are now lobbying for big scale changes at urban intersections. So who's going to pay for this "want." Not from our local government, which can hardly make payroll. Nor our state government, which is about to give away $2 billion/yr. to our oil company owners, even though we can't properly fund our schools as is, or build a safe ferry.
So where do the bucks come from? Oh yeah, the feds--that nasty bunch of people who keep interfering in our lives. Quit poking your noses into our affairs you officious 'crats--just send the pork.
Driving and... READING!!!
I passed a car, in a school zone, in which the driver was READING! Not sure if it was a map or a newspaper, but he had a large paper open in front of him!!! smh