A driver had quite the scare after her car was T-boned and dragged through a dangerous intersection in East Dallas earlier this week.
Ben Sharon caught video footage of a bewildering scene in front of his skateboard and graffiti store, Rec Shop, at around 1:15 p.m. on December 13. A cement truck struck a white car and continued to move forward for several yards despite the car being wedged across its front.
The driver of the cement truck eventually stopped when the car began catching friction against the curb.
“It was pretty crazy to look outside and see that,” Sharon told WFAA. “I definitely wasn’t expecting it.”
While the owner of the cement truck — SRM Concrete — has yet to comment on the incident, the driver of the white car was reportedly shaken up but not injured. Sharon explained that while Dallas police never showed up, Dallas Fire-Rescue tended to the woman and drove her home in her car, suggesting it was no worse for the wear.
Sharon suggested that East Dallas’ notorious “3G” intersection, where Garland Road, Grand Avenue, and Gaston Avenue meet, played no small part in the accident.
“There’s no other intersection like it,” he said. “Every direction here has to split into another direction, so it really confuses everybody coming through here.”
The intersection has been the subject of a years-long debate between residents and the Texas Department of Transportation. A TxDOT presentation outlined five proposals for the intersection: a modified T, a roundabout, and a reverse T with options of a Grand to Garland bypass lane, a free right turn from Grand to Garland, or Grand being intersected by Gaston and Garland. The last option, which had already been given the green light by the City, was selected and went into effect this fall.
“It’s not any better,” Sharon remarked. “[It’s] maybe worse.”
Overall, driving in Dallas isn’t for the faint of heart, as suggested by a Forbes ranking in which the city tied for first place with Atlanta for being the city where motorists are most likely to be involved in a collision, as previously reported in The Dallas Express.
