Still waiting for the photos to come in. Great job! Gigantic kudos for
having your camera with you. My camera is always with me, if not just
outside in the car.
Looking forward to seeing them as they download. Work Pentax in there
somehow.
Tom C.
From: David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: "pentax-discuss@pdml.net" <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:30:36 -0800
Los Angeles introduced a new bus line on the 29th of October. It is a
rapid line that runs on a road all its own called "Busway", thorough the
middle of the San Fernando Valley, connecting Woodland Hills / Warner
Center with the Metrolink subway system starting in North Hollywood. The
busyway has synchronized traffic lights that keep the bus moving all the
time. This means that as the busline road crosses major streets, traffic
stops on those surface roads.
I rode the Orange Line today as a novelty, to see how the experience was
going to be. My wife came with me. We had been on the bus for less than
two minutes, when suddenly it was struck by a fast moving car that ran its
red light. The car broadsided the bus. The car was seriously damaged, and
driver taken to the hospital in critical condition (she was later upgraded
to stable).
We were then put through a triage routine by the first responders to
determine who (if anyone) was injured. Mostly any injuries were just
people pretending to be injured, thinking their gravy train had come in.
Despicable really. Anyway, it held us all up by about 90 minutes.
Fortunately I had my camera.
Taken with the *ist-DS, and the DA16-45 lens....
http://users.adelphia.net/~daoswald/pictures/index.html
Warning: It's about 4.5 megabytes of photos that will load.
I posted the pictures quickly because a woman riding on the bus with us is
married to a reporter. Quickly he was on the cell with me requesting any
of the pictures I took. ...I had to remove the ones where my wife was
posing, smiling next to the firefighters. It seemed a little inappropriate
after the fact. ;)
Dave
