On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:40:07AM -0400, knarf wrote: > The first one and 10790 really stand out.
Thanks. Also, thanks to Dan, Godfrey and Bruce. > > Hope no one was hurt too badly. Nobody was hurt too badly to leave the scene, on foot. If you look at my other wreck photos, the woman driving the Jag left on foot, in heels, and lived in Los Gatos (25 miles away over mountain roads). This was the first time I've ever heard of a double hit and run. > > Cheers, > frank > > Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >I wasn't planning on taking any photos tonight. > > > >I was sitting at my computer, and heard a familiar squeel-thump! Though > >it was more of a clang than a thump. I grabbed my cell phone and camera > >and walked up to the twin bridges. As I walked up I called 911 when I > >saw a car facing southbound in the northbound lane, with a wheel > >sitting some distance away. There were several people standing around. > >None of them were the drivers of the cars, though one rather inebriated > >fellow had been a passenger. > >The drivers, one definitely drunk the other likely high on something > >else, both hightailed it off on foot, in opposite directions. > > > >I think this one, while not the sharpest, best captures the moment: > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9566589543/ > > > >For fans of bent sheet metal, the rest of the set: > >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157635184466984/ > > > >Having lived here a big chunk of the past 40 years, several of them > >before > >I got my drivers license, I've seen a lot of wrecks in front of my > >house, > >for values of "in front" < 250m. I learned several things before I > >even > >got my drivers license: > > > >1) Almost all of the wrecks were caused by drunks, with teenagers > >driving beyond their abilities coming in a distant second. > > > >2) People who wore their seat belts did not get hurt. > > > >3) People who didn't wear their seat belt got hurt. > > > >And as a bonus, for them that really enjoy pictures of wrecks, crashes > >and other destruction: > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157608363486923/ > > “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
