Car door killed on Wall Street

Normally I wouldn't mention an event like this but it involved climbers and tourists.

A tourist was driving down 279 spotted the climbers and was gawking, as a result he drifted towards them. Car door was open. He took the car door off.

No injuries.

On the climbers part, the car was parked less than a foot away from the white line. The open door would have extended out onto the highway.

The lesson to be learned is not the fault of each party, but that there is a danger, so please keep those kids close to the wall and away from the highway.

Crazy but not surprising. People drive FAST on that damn Potash Road and of course the climbers are close as well. Everyone be safe.

Oh I forgot - this is MP - what I should have said was - no photo...didn't happen

I think the car door had it coming, you need to pull over as much as you can with the door closed, then to leave it open . . .

glad nobody was hurt.

RIP car door

jacob m s wrote:I think the car door had it coming, you need to pull over as much as you can with the door closed, then to leave it open . . . glad nobody was hurt. RIP car door

Let's keep the comments about the door civil. Respect the car door's family and friends.

Bill Kirby wrote: Let's keep the comments about the door civil. Respect the car door's family and friends.

But was the door wearing a helmet?

I see people open their driver's side door, without looking to see if a car is coming, all the time. I've often wanted to deliberately take that car door off with my car, to teach them a lesson. But I won't do that. But I fantasize about it!

The driver was speeding the car was more than a couple of feet from the white line and the door was not over the white line. It was 100% the drivers error.

Wow! Can believe this made the web. The driver was speeding, the door was a slider and still the legal distance from the white line. Insurance company has admitted liability of the driver.

Here's the picture that shows the location of the van, confirms it happened and that Dallas R cannot judge distance, does not know a car from a Minivan or that the door was a slider. We removed the door to get it back to town.

Now for the grain of truth in the OP "there is danger, so please keep.....away from the highway.

van

Is that the actual van? Amazing that there is no other damage to it.

cdec wrote:Wow! Can believe this made the web.

It made mountain project... don't flatter yourself. 95% of the stuff on here is total bullshit based on 5% fact.

Sucks your car door got F'd, glad no one was hurt.

cdec wrote:Wow! Can believe this made the web. The driver was speeding, the door was a slider and still the legal distance from the white line. Insurance company has admitted liability of the driver. Here's the picture that shows the location of the van, confirms it happened and that Dallas R cannot judge distance, does not know a car from a Minivan or that the door was a slider. We removed the door to get it back to town. Now for the grain of truth in the OP "there is danger, so please keep.....away from the highway.

Truth, I was on an anchor when it happened so could not say how fast the driver was going.

Truth, I did not investigate the type of car that is was. Really can't say if that is the actual car. I drive pickups, know them pretty well. All the others are "cars". Minivan, SUV, sedan; still a car.

Truth, I did not measure the distance white line from car, only observed from 4 routes down.

Truth, driver hit the door.

Bottom line, and purpose of the post, you'all be careful on wall street. Folks tend to drift off road a bit and puts other folks in danger. Be alert, don't get hurt.

Truth is I own the "car" and have had to deal with the police and the insurance company.
The facts are the driver who hit my vehicle was speeding, distracted and deemed to be at fault. The "car" was photographed in the exact position it was in when it was hit and we did so to submit to the police and insurance company. It was parked legally and in no way our fault.

It would have been great if you had just posted the last paragraph of the last post. As it was the OP was sensationalized, inaccurate, disengenuous and made based on little to no actual knowledge of wtf happened.

Be careful out there is right.

My sympathies go out to the car doors family and friends. Let us know when the kickstarter campaign starts.

^^^^
No need for a Kickstarter, insurance has it covered. Plus we are a big, rich commercial guide service profiting off the masses of gym to crag climbers and ruining climbing for those that remember how it used to be when they started climbing.... last summer.

If this accident had happened in Eldo, the minivan would have just shaken it off and been fine.

most surely, Yur gonna Die!

YER GONNA DIE!!

Austin that is awesome! thanks for the laugh!

Its amazing there aren't more accidents there. I wonder why there seems to be zero enforcement of the climbing and Indian Writings slower speed zone. Could we get one of those speed limits signs with the built in radar that displays your speed. I don't know how truly affective they are. But it would be a good start. Also climbers should respect the road by parking as far from the white line, leashing their dogs and not belaying in the road.

But everyone know this already.

Sorry to keep this thread going, but are you saying that the door was a slider? That the "tourist" hit the door in so precisely that there wasn't even a scratch or a dent anywhere else on the van?

And I love the OP's designation between tourists and climbers, because we all know everyone climbing at Wall Street is a Moab local.

Dallas R wrote: On the climbers part, the car was parked less than a foot away from the white line.

cdec wrote:Here's the picture that shows the location of the van, confirms it happened and that Dallas R cannot judge distance

My wife would say that Dallas was measuring using boy inches, not girl inches.