skater
04-13-2004, 12:08 AM
It looked like a car pulled out in front of a Prelude in the wet weather, and the Prelude hit the car in the drivers side doors - his front bumper was still partially embedded in the side of the car, in fact. The odd part was that the Prelude then apparently bounced off and ended up facing the other direction, four lanes over (two lanes in the direction he was going, one left-hand turn lane, and one lane the other direction), against the drivers side of an SUV that was in the fifth lane over. A large swath of broken glass and plastic traced his route.
(Clarification: the road there is two lanes in each direction, with a left-turn lane in the middle. He started in the right lane heading west, and the right-front corner of his car ended up against the left side of an SUV that was in the right lane heading east. He went all the way across the road, and was facing the other direction.)
I was sitting in my car about 100 feet from the accident (behind a building) and didn't even know it had happened. Traffic in that area flows around 40-45 mph or less because it's right after a traffic light. While he may have been going faster, I doubt it because it's not a safe area to drive fast in (lots of entrances and exits to shops), and you'd have to be stupid to try it.
The road was wet, and, although I only took a quick glance, I think he had some low-profile tires that probably aren't too good in the rain... That's the only thing I can account for him bouncing off the other and spinning clear across the road. Or maybe he tried to take off after the accident for some reason and instead caused a second one...at which point he gave up? That doesn't seem likely either. (The damage from the SUV didn't look nearly as bad as the damage from the first impact.) It was very odd - I can't understand what would throw that car that far.
--RJ
(Clarification: the road there is two lanes in each direction, with a left-turn lane in the middle. He started in the right lane heading west, and the right-front corner of his car ended up against the left side of an SUV that was in the right lane heading east. He went all the way across the road, and was facing the other direction.)
I was sitting in my car about 100 feet from the accident (behind a building) and didn't even know it had happened. Traffic in that area flows around 40-45 mph or less because it's right after a traffic light. While he may have been going faster, I doubt it because it's not a safe area to drive fast in (lots of entrances and exits to shops), and you'd have to be stupid to try it.
The road was wet, and, although I only took a quick glance, I think he had some low-profile tires that probably aren't too good in the rain... That's the only thing I can account for him bouncing off the other and spinning clear across the road. Or maybe he tried to take off after the accident for some reason and instead caused a second one...at which point he gave up? That doesn't seem likely either. (The damage from the SUV didn't look nearly as bad as the damage from the first impact.) It was very odd - I can't understand what would throw that car that far.
--RJ