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Holy shit!

[Jun. 26th, 2009|10:14 pm]

[	Tags	\|	accident, dramas, shit!	]
[	mood	\|	headache	]

There was just a HUGE accident around the corner from my house! Thank God, no one was killed. It looked and sounded a lot worse than it was.

The tires & brakes squealing and the smashing sounds felt like they lasted forever. Ran out the door (panicking that it was my family, I was never so grateful to not see a silver car....), didn't even have to guess which way to go, the whole neighborhood was headed towards the scene. I love it when people running to gawk suddenly get overcome at the first sight of carnage and have to turn away. *eyeroll* I'm proud of my neighbors though. They were all calm and helpful. No one screaming or freaking out. Although, who knows what would have happened if someone was badly injured.

When I hit the next corner debris was everywhere. Could have made another car from the amount of stuff on the ground.

Apparently, two cars were driving, one ran a light, they smashed and went in different directions. One car had it's front end trashed. Trashed. Other car hit a parked car, jumped the curb and hit a fence - this driver was pinned.

Came upon the trashed car first. Spent a few secs looking for the driver (and signs of blood), but nothing, no one there. If the door wasn't open, I would've pegged it for a parked car.

Ran to the other car where everyone was gathering. Driver was awake, talking and coherant, but his legs were pinned. By the time I got there, all I could hear was he was ok and the Fire Department and ambulances were charging our way (local station house & 1 major hospital are mere blocks away), so I stepped back and let them do their thing.

Fire department pulled out their portable generator and had to cut him out of the car. This guy is a cab driver. He was calling his buddies/company people on the radio right before the EMS people came. His buddies came by and while they were watching him get cut out, some dude from an autobody shop goes up to him and makes a salespitch! WTF? Handing out his card and everything! He's asking them if they got a shop for the car to be repaired, while the Fire Department is cutting the freakin' roof off the car! I was about to remark that it would probably be easier to just buy a new one, but decided to keep my opinions to myself. This being New York and all.... Either way, I'll bet he's gonna be making some good money, that car and the trashed car went to his shop.

As the FDNY cut the cabbie out, they shooed us away so we didn't get hit with debris or anything. I went across the street and stood by the trashed car and stared. For almost 20 minutes. My brain was not proccessing the front of that car. The front bumper was lying twenty feet away. It was hit on the right side. No idea how, but that was the point of impact because half of the front end was lifted up and to the left exposing inside. Another good chunk was ripped off and stuck under the tires, while the rest was dragging on the floor. Mind you, the car was positioned on the right side of the street with the point of impact was facing the sidewalk, so it must have done a nice big spin. But the driver was fine. Walking around and everything. I probably would have gone to the hospital just to make sure. Whiplash and all, ya know? The salesguy took this car off. The towtruck left part of the dangling front dragging on the street as it was towed away. What a racket that was. >.<;;

The FDNY freed the parked car from the cabbie's car. The owner tried to move it, but the rear axels were smashed, so it went 5 feet and the rear tires almost buckled under. It was towed too, but I don't think it went to the salesman's place.

I'm so bad, I was watching and thinking, "man, last time I tried to burn down the house, I got 5 fire trucks! Why does this only warrant 3 fire trucks?" (And a police car, and an ambulance, and some other long truck-like emergency vehicle.)

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