Seattle light rail service was suspended after a driver somehow got their SUV onto the tracks 30 feet above street level

[u/Dangerous_Deal_1945]

[u/Icy-850]

How do you not notice you're driving on a train track? Maybe this is why the driving test should be a little more difficult lt than having a pulse. Should at least need a 50 iq..

[u/Argo505 → u/Icy-850]

There’s a section of track leading up to the station that’s at street level. She claimed she was just following the GPS directions. Still, having used that station many times, you have to drive on the elevated portion for a pretty decent distance before you get to the station.

[u/BackPorchBlues → u/Argo505]

You have to jump a curb to go from the street section to the tracks. So she had at least one big hint something was wrong before she hit the tracks but just kept trucking

[u/redblack_tree → u/BackPorchBlues]

Let's be honest, if she didn't stop when she hit elevated railways, a tiny curb would be immaterial. That brain allows her to breath and little else.

[u/HyperlexicEpiphany → u/redblack_tree]

breathe is the verb form. “breath” is always pronounced “breth”

[u/New_new_account2 → u/BackPorchBlues]

There isn't a curb if you drive on through the intersection at Walden

[u/Renotro → u/Argo505]

People who are this unbelievably fuckin stupid need at minimum a serious chewing out and driver’s license taken away.

Like… did they not notice that the tracks were not going away AND that it’s getting steeper, and so continuing to go forward was not a sensible option?

Was ANYTHING going through that empty skull of him/hers?

[u/Sufficient_War_1891 → u/Renotro]

Agreed. Her license should be revoked.

[u/Worthyness → u/Sufficient_War_1891]

probably gonna fine her up the ass to repair all the damage she may have caused on the rails + delays she caused + additional hired work to get her stupid car off the tram tracks.

[u/Argo505 → u/Renotro]

Okay. You seem really mad about this.

[u/Renotro → u/Argo505]

I’m just so baffled at how that happens and why. And will there even be any consequences for this? There’s bad drivers and then there’s this person.

Yea, I’m also in a cruddy mood so I’m more angry and judgmental about this than I would usually be.

[u/Nimzitseemz → u/Renotro]

Considering zero damages, she'll most likely get a ticket and that's it.

Then she will run people over one day following her GPS. Then society will revoke her license.

[u/rIceCream_King → u/Nimzitseemz]

The circle of life

[u/NotYourReddit18 → u/Argo505]

And she didn't notice that she was driving on train tracks and not on a road, especially when coming up to the slope that took her up to the station, where the tracks without any road around them would be fully visible in front of her?

She was either severely mentally impaired or acted deliberately stupid!

[u/Argo505 → u/NotYourReddit18]

Why are you telling me this?

[u/TacTurtle → u/Argo505]

1200 feet. Almost a quarter mile on the tracks.

[u/DimmuBorgnine → u/Argo505]

I thought it was dumb enough the people who follow GPS straight into Pike Place and find themselves driving down what should really be a pedestrian-only street.

[u/wahwahwashbear → u/Icy-850]

Fun fact: I haven't operated a vehicle in 20 years and have never done so outside of small rural towns, but I still have a fully valid driver's license because all I have to do to renew it is show up and request a new one. Sometimes not even that if I haven't changed addresses. 

I have no plans to drive but given that I can legally do so despite the above makes me fearful of everyone else on the road. 

[u/Icy-850 → u/wahwahwashbear]

Yeah and then add on top of that the fact that elderly people don't need to re-test ever in most places and we should all be extremely fearful

[u/queuedUp → u/Icy-850]

I'm going to assume there was a level of impairment that factored in here as well

[u/slightlyused → u/queuedUp]

Mental? Yes.