Dave Brown

Kaboom!

My ride to work today featured not one, but two accidents.

The second was, as far as I could tell, pretty minor. A guy hit one of the slippery spots in the Shintoshin Tunnel (which has these weird rainy bits all the time), and spun out, banging into the wall. As far as I can tell, nobody was hurt, but he still apparently managed to do enough damage to merit police attention.

But the first was considerably more spectacular. I first saw the flotilla of cops that’d closed off a couple of lanes of the road so they could clean up the mess. Then I saw the car with its entire front end bashed in.

Then I looked again, and saw the van that the car had hit. Several feet away. With a huge dent on its side. Which was at this point, facing skywards. Apparently the guy had knocked the van over on its side and made it slide up onto the sidewalk a decent distance.

I just hope everyone in the van was wearing their seatbelt. When I tried looking for news of the crash on Google News, I couldn’t find anything, which presumably means that nobody was injured or killed.

Seatbelts, guys. Wear them.