The internet can't look away from Seattle's 'Crash Corner' - KING5.com

SEATTLE — Life is seldom dull astatine the country of clang and crunch. 

"The country is accelerated and dangerous," said nonmigratory Joy Hollingsworth.

23rd Avenue East and East John Street is 1 of Seattle’s most-watched intersections, acknowledgment to Hollingsworth.

"I conscionable attraction astir the community," she said.

Hollingsworth is simply a third-generation nonmigratory of this household home.

"My grandma moved present successful 1946," she said.

She's seen the streets of her beloved vicinity turn much and much dangerous, twelvemonth aft road-rage-filled year.

"People are trying to debar the freeway, and truthful 23rd is conscionable their outlet," Hollingsworth said.  

A fewer years ago, Hollingsworth began filming the thoroughfare utilizing information cameras mounted extracurricular her home.

"You cognize what," she recalls thinking. "I'm gonna constituent a camera and spot if we tin drawback immoderate reddish airy runners."

Since then, she’s documented astir each car crash, nighttime and day.

"Ten to 15 accidents year-round," she estimated.

Though determination person been nary known fatalities since she started filming collisions successful 2018, determination person been immoderate precise scary adjacent calls.

"Probably the worst 1 that I've seen is simply a small kid from 1 of the mediate schools successful the country get deed connected a scooter," Hollingsworth said. "Thankfully he's okay, but that was truly scary."

While visiting during an day unreserved hour, we witnessed 1 car locking up its brakes successful the intersection, and different traveling successful the incorrect direction.

Most wrecks are the effect of drivers moving reddish lights.

"There's a batch of T-bones."

Speed is besides a origin successful astir of the crashes. And nary 2 collisions are the same.

"One was this motortruck that was carrying a ton of wood, and it got clipped, T-boned," she said.

Just a fewer seconds earlier, a pedestrian had been walking successful the precise spot wherever the immense load of wood landed.

Hollingsworth’s videos person helped constabulary lick a fewer cases.

"Any clip of the time they cognize I person a camera pointing here," she said.

The footage has gotten the public's attraction with thousands of online views.

"Hopefully, possibly the cameras bring an consciousness to folks that this is simply a unsafe corner."

Her videos person besides helped person section officials to instrumentality steps that should marque the intersection safer.

"They were capable to spot however atrocious it was," Hollingsworth said. "They're making the lights for the awesome beryllium a batch bigger."

They're besides placing easier-to-see crosswalk signals, and improving the sidewalks to marque them safer and much disposable astatine crossings. With immoderate luck, those changes volition assistance marque beingness astatine the country of 23rd and John blissfully boring.

"I conscionable privation to marque definite that the corner's safe."