Totally unsurprised: The Mazda that drove onto the Seattle Light Rail tracks was from Utah

Utah's predominant license plate features an arch rock formation from the Arches National Park.

On the light rail tracks at Mount Baker Station in Seattle.

I am totally unsurprised that the person involved in the incident in Seattle ("How did an SUV get onto (and off) the Mount Baker light rail platform?," Seattle Times), was from Utah.

 Every person from every other place thinks X drivers are the worst.  But Utah drivers are so timid.  They won't enter an intersection when the light is green, they wait behind the line, so traffic backs up. 

It's interminable sometimes to get through a four way intersection because people hesitate and/or if you're traveling straight in the other direction, you wait for that car to clear in the other lane, rather than moving simultaneously.

Scary.  Terrifying.

So many wrong way drivers on the freeways, often resulting in crashes and deaths ("I-80 closed after fleeing suspect causes wrong-way crash near Salt Lake City," Fox13, "Wrong Way Accidents: What They Are and How They Occur").

And there are multiple accidents every year on the light rail, mostly in Salt Lake but in the suburbs too ("One person injured following collision between TRAX train and vehicle," Fox13).

Outside the Delta Center, where professional basketball and hockey games are played in Downtown Salt Lake City.

There is no question that "design flaws" do contribute to these kinds of accidents.  Car-centric people have a hard time conceptualizing mixing traffic with a train car.

And wrt wrong way crashes, to be fair, when we were growing up, mostly you entered a freeway from the right side of the road.  

I can see an impaired person thinking that's the case, not paying attention to signs, and entering on the right, despite the Wrong Way and Do Not Enter signs ("Driving in the Right Direction: State Efforts to Combat Wrong-Way Driving," National Conference of State Legislatures).

But a lot of it isn't the result of design flaws so much as it is driver error and recklessness.  It's hard to design that out of the system when so many people are imprinted with an automobile-centric and dependent mobility paradigm.

Especially in the Salt Lake Valley.  Utah is touted as being environmentally forward through its Envision Utah program ("Progressive Planning in Conservation Communities") but it's the epitome of sprawl.  

And the Legislature and Executive Branch are pretty much pro-growth anti-environmental, unless they have no other choice, like with the Great Salt Lake (" This article is more than 1 year old Utah’s Great Salt Lake rings climate alarm bells over release of 4.1m tons of carbon dioxide," Guardian).