Evan Smith Photo
Reader Evan Smith sent in this photo of a car accident Friday morning on Townsend Avenue by the Morris Cove seawall.
He came upon the crash around 6 a.m. Friday.
“The driver overshot the right-hand uphill bend at the end of the sea wall section and ended up hung up on a wooden guardrail post,” Smith reported. He said the state Department of Transportation “generally does a good job keeping Townsend Avenue (state route 337) clear and keeping this section well salted, but the salt is less effective at these low temperatures.”
New Haven saw about 13 car accidents overnight, police said.
Many many moons ago I crashed in this exact spot, was going slower than dirt and still lost control, this was the spot that made me fear driving in snow till this day. It needs to be heavily sanded.