I wasn't planning on taking any photos tonight. I was sitting at my computer, and heard a familiar squeel-thump! Though it was more of a clang than a thump. I grabbed my cell phone and camera and walked up to the twin bridges. As I walked up I called 911 when I saw a car facing southbound in the northbound lane, with a wheel sitting some distance away. There were several people standing around. None of them were the drivers of the cars, though one rather inebriated fellow had been a passenger. The drivers, one definitely drunk the other likely high on something else, both hightailed it off on foot, in opposite directions.
I think this one, while not the sharpest, best captures the moment: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9566589543/ For fans of bent sheet metal, the rest of the set: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157635184466984/ Having lived here a big chunk of the past 40 years, several of them before I got my drivers license, I've seen a lot of wrecks in front of my house, for values of "in front" < 250m. I learned several things before I even got my drivers license: 1) Almost all of the wrecks were caused by drunks, with teenagers driving beyond their abilities coming in a distant second. 2) People who wore their seat belts did not get hurt. 3) People who didn't wear their seat belt got hurt. And as a bonus, for them that really enjoy pictures of wrecks, crashes and other destruction: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157608363486923/ -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
