Monday, June 9, 2025

The Car Crash

I went over to Starbucks and CVS this afternoon.  This road was blocked because of these two bucket trucks at work reinstalling a huge power pole.  I stopped and asked one fo the flagmen if the pole had been hit by something.  And, wow, did he have a story!  He said that late last night a probably stolen Mercedes SUV came toward where I am standing through the intersection I am looking at.  There is a little jog in this street, and the car was moving at over 70 MPH!  Thank heavens there was no other car going through the intersection!  When the car missed the jog in the road and hit this giant power pole, the impact broke the pole in half!  Then the car continued toward me and hit yet another, smaller power pole!


This is the second pole the car hit.  Notice the splintered wood from one of the power poles in the foreground!  I cannot imagine the power of the impact.


The splintered wood from one of the power poles, and in the dark area in the background, pieces of the car.


Look at all these pieces from what was once a car!  I would love to see what the car looks like!  The flagman said that the driver got out of the wreckage and ran away!  I guess that says a lot about Mercedes construction and air bags!  Wow!  I keep thinking that if another car had been in the intersection and had been hit by this car, everyone in that car would have died.  That is beyond imagining.





 

2 comments:

Joan Edwards said...

Very frightening to think of what could have been if another car was in the area. I cannot believe the driver was able to run away.

Anonymous said...

Must have been a drunk driver because they always seem to survive a crash when everyone else gets hurt. Thank goodness the poles were the ones getting smashed instead of cars & drivers. Betsey