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Hi I'm glad that you and your wife were not injured. I used to drive transit busses. I'm curious, I've never seen an articulated bus like that, any idea who makes it. Also, is your Orange line running on regular streets, special lanes. or something else? Butch
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On 5/11/05, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed: Maybe people should just learn what a red light at a crossing really means. Darwin should take care of the rest. Ouch! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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Rob Studdert wrote: On 4 Nov 2005 at 21:24, David Oswald wrote: The one I was in was the third in the first four days of operation of the Orange Line. It was by far the worst though; certanly the only one with injuries. They're now looking at a lot of options; more meaningful warning lights at the intersections, crossing arms, etc. Currently they've implemented the 10mph through intersections policy, and have posted traffic cops at key intersections until they can get the whole situation sorted out. Maybe they should paint the orange line buses bright orange instead of ghost gray. Maybe people should just learn what a red light at a crossing really means. Darwin should take care of the rest. Yes! One of my favorite pet peeves! Always blame the implement, not the operator! Smack someone with a baseball bat, and everybody blames that damned bat! Ought to *outlaw* them ~ they're very dangerous! Only cops should have bats! Bottom line, pilot error. Human failure once again. But, it seems that today avoiding blame is de rigueur! Nobody's ever at fault! Odd, what? keith whaley Rob Studdert
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Cotty wrote: On 5/11/05, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed: Maybe people should just learn what a red light at a crossing really means. Darwin should take care of the rest. Ouch! Cheers, Cotty A valid sentiment, truth be known. It's happening all the time, but the process is not so described often enough... Used to be The devil take the hindmost. Reference to Darwin just brings it up to date. keith
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Hi! 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. Sobering... Very sobering... Boris
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Dave, Apparently your accident was not a fluke. I heard there was another accident with the Orange Line buses, the second in its first week of operation. I guess now they are going to slow the buses down to 10 mph when crossing intersections. Derek
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Derek wrote: Dave, Apparently your accident was not a fluke. I heard there was another accident with the Orange Line buses, the second in its first week of operation. I guess now they are going to slow the buses down to 10 mph when crossing intersections. Derek Well, that should certainly make them easier to hit.
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Logical... Doug Brewer wrote: Derek wrote: Dave, Apparently your accident was not a fluke. I heard there was another accident with the Orange Line buses, the second in its first week of operation. I guess now they are going to slow the buses down to 10 mph when crossing intersections. Derek Well, that should certainly make them easier to hit. -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
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The one I was in was the third in the first four days of operation of the Orange Line. It was by far the worst though; certanly the only one with injuries. They're now looking at a lot of options; more meaningful warning lights at the intersections, crossing arms, etc. Currently they've implemented the 10mph through intersections policy, and have posted traffic cops at key intersections until they can get the whole situation sorted out. Maybe they should paint the orange line buses bright orange instead of ghost gray. Derek wrote: Dave, Apparently your accident was not a fluke. I heard there was another accident with the Orange Line buses, the second in its first week of operation. I guess now they are going to slow the buses down to 10 mph when crossing intersections. Derek
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On 4 Nov 2005 at 21:24, David Oswald wrote: The one I was in was the third in the first four days of operation of the Orange Line. It was by far the worst though; certanly the only one with injuries. They're now looking at a lot of options; more meaningful warning lights at the intersections, crossing arms, etc. Currently they've implemented the 10mph through intersections policy, and have posted traffic cops at key intersections until they can get the whole situation sorted out. Maybe they should paint the orange line buses bright orange instead of ghost gray. Maybe people should just learn what a red light at a crossing really means. Darwin should take care of the rest. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
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Another shot that would surely sell would be one of the emergency workers extricating the woman from the car. Paul On Nov 3, 2005, at 2:23 AM, Cotty wrote: On 2/11/05, David Oswald, discombobulated, unleashed: 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 Well done David. FYI - next time (!) try and get the casualty in the same frame as the bus - that would have been the pic the paper would have wanted. I know it's easy to say that, but shuffle right to the front, go vertical, casualty and team at the bottom of frame, the front of the bus at the top. A couple of shots rattled off before you're asked to step back and bingo. Under the circumstances, you did well. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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On 11/2/05, David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. ;) nice series -frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Neat looking bus, but I don't see any damage. There was a similar incident a while ago, in Minneapolis, I believe, where after a bus accident, more people showed up claiming injury, than were actually on it at the time of the incident. Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident. 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 PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
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On 11/2/05, David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. A few years back, in St. Louis, a Metro bus was involved in a minor accident. There were only a handful of people riding on the bus. By the time the ambulance arrived the population of the bus had tripled, most of them complaining about neck pain. Go figure. Anyway, nice series. Thanks for sharing. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- You have to hold the button down -Arnold Newman
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OOPs, I commented thinking there was only one image posted! Duh Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident. 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 PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
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I still don't see any image of damage to the bus. Seems that would be a shot sure to be taken. Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. OOPs, I commented thinking there was only one image posted! Duh Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident. 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 PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
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You have to admit that the accident wasn't exactly metrolink's fault. Stranding the survivors for 90 minuets is, (brings to mind an old joke, I wonder where they were planning to bury them...). David Oswald wrote: Yes, there was a 90 minute delay. Here's why. An officer eventually escorted us to the Woodman stop. But he forgot to inform the metrolink authorities of where we were. So OrangeLine buses were being re-routed past us. We even went and asked a metrolink security officer and he impatiently just said, You're gonna have to work with us on this. 20 minutes later we found an apparent supervisor. She said she didn't even know we were waiting. I said, There were 40 people travelling on the bus. You took 12 away to medical attention. It doesn't take much of a mental leap to realize that you've got 28 people stranded here. A few minutes later they sent a bus by. It's funny because I'm not a normal rider. But sometimes on our day off we jump on the subway to go to the civic center or to hollywood, rather than driving through traffic. Today I was telling my wife that the new Orange Line sounded really convenient, and that we ought to give it a try to see where it goes. We rode less than one stop from the park-and-ride lot before we were struck and delayed 90 minutes. ...very convenient. Dave Derek wrote: Oustanding job! I'm a Westsider who doesn't get to the valley much, so this is the first I've seen of the Orange Line. Where are the pictures of your wife smiling with the firemen? (My wife wants to know). Derek P.S. You had a 90 min delay? Sounds like LA mass transit at work! Thanks. I was just kind of snapping away, but too timid to really stick my nose in it. I was afraid that eventually they would ask me to stop if I got too aggressive. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have worried. They were all too busy with their big scene to bother me. As I look the shots over I quickly see they're nowhere near my best work. I guess I myself was a little flustered, plus, as I mentioned, I didnt' want to be too obvious. The thought did cross my mind that if I got too obvious they would assume I was just a passer-by with a camera rather than one of the accident victims, and escort me out from within the police taped boundry. Tom C wrote: Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the Fresh Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots. Tom C. From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800 The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem. Tom C wrote: 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
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There have been photographically ddocumented incidents of people jumping onto buses after accidents in New York. Kenneth Waller wrote: Neat looking bus, but I don't see any damage. There was a similar incident a while ago, in Minneapolis, I believe, where after a bus accident, more people showed up claiming injury, than were actually on it at the time of the incident. Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident. 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 PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
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We were not allowed out of the bus until after that took place. Paul Stenquist wrote: Another shot that would surely sell would be one of the emergency workers extricating the woman from the car. Paul On Nov 3, 2005, at 2:23 AM, Cotty wrote: On 2/11/05, David Oswald, discombobulated, unleashed: 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 Well done David. FYI - next time (!) try and get the casualty in the same frame as the bus - that would have been the pic the paper would have wanted. I know it's easy to say that, but shuffle right to the front, go vertical, casualty and team at the bottom of frame, the front of the bus at the top. A couple of shots rattled off before you're asked to step back and bingo. Under the circumstances, you did well. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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There was no damage to the bus. She hit its wheel, and you would never know it looking at the bus. Kenneth Waller wrote: I still don't see any image of damage to the bus. Seems that would be a shot sure to be taken. Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. OOPs, I commented thinking there was only one image posted! Duh Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident. 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 PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
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In a message dated 11/3/2005 5:13:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. ;) nice series -frank Real visual reporting. Very nice. Though I don't think the accident was. I imagine you could have willingly skipped it. Marnie aka Doe
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I figured that was the case. You did well considering the limitations. Paul We were not allowed out of the bus until after that took place. Paul Stenquist wrote: Another shot that would surely sell would be one of the emergency workers extricating the woman from the car. Paul On Nov 3, 2005, at 2:23 AM, Cotty wrote: On 2/11/05, David Oswald, discombobulated, unleashed: 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 Well done David. FYI - next time (!) try and get the casualty in the same frame as the bus - that would have been the pic the paper would have wanted. I know it's easy to say that, but shuffle right to the front, go vertical, casualty and team at the bottom of frame, the front of the bus at the top. A couple of shots rattled off before you're asked to step back and bingo. Under the circumstances, you did well. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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There was no damage to the bus. She hit its wheel.. That's a really hard part of the bus to hit. No collapse, so her vehicle took the full brunt of the impact. Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. There was no damage to the bus. She hit its wheel, and you would never know it looking at the bus. Kenneth Waller wrote: I still don't see any image of damage to the bus. Seems that would be a shot sure to be taken. Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. OOPs, I commented thinking there was only one image posted! Duh Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident. 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 PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
PESO: The scene of an accident.
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
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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
Re: PESO: The scene of an accident.
The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem. Tom C wrote: 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
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Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the Fresh Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots. Tom C. From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800 The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem. Tom C wrote: 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
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Thanks. I was just kind of snapping away, but too timid to really stick my nose in it. I was afraid that eventually they would ask me to stop if I got too aggressive. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have worried. They were all too busy with their big scene to bother me. As I look the shots over I quickly see they're nowhere near my best work. I guess I myself was a little flustered, plus, as I mentioned, I didnt' want to be too obvious. The thought did cross my mind that if I got too obvious they would assume I was just a passer-by with a camera rather than one of the accident victims, and escort me out from within the police taped boundry. Tom C wrote: Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the Fresh Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots. Tom C. From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800 The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem. Tom C wrote: 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
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Ahh... don't fault yourself. You were there with your tools, doing exactly the same thing a newspaper photographer would have done if they were present. Hanging a little low was probably a good idea... but really no one should be paying attention to a photographer when there's a crisis... Tom C. From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:36:28 -0800 Thanks. I was just kind of snapping away, but too timid to really stick my nose in it. I was afraid that eventually they would ask me to stop if I got too aggressive. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have worried. They were all too busy with their big scene to bother me. As I look the shots over I quickly see they're nowhere near my best work. I guess I myself was a little flustered, plus, as I mentioned, I didnt' want to be too obvious. The thought did cross my mind that if I got too obvious they would assume I was just a passer-by with a camera rather than one of the accident victims, and escort me out from within the police taped boundry. Tom C wrote: Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the Fresh Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots. Tom C. From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800 The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem. Tom C wrote: 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
Re: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Oustanding job! I'm a Westsider who doesn't get to the valley much, so this is the first I've seen of the Orange Line. Where are the pictures of your wife smiling with the firemen? (My wife wants to know). Derek P.S. You had a 90 min delay? Sounds like LA mass transit at work! Thanks. I was just kind of snapping away, but too timid to really stick my nose in it. I was afraid that eventually they would ask me to stop if I got too aggressive. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have worried. They were all too busy with their big scene to bother me. As I look the shots over I quickly see they're nowhere near my best work. I guess I myself was a little flustered, plus, as I mentioned, I didnt' want to be too obvious. The thought did cross my mind that if I got too obvious they would assume I was just a passer-by with a camera rather than one of the accident victims, and escort me out from within the police taped boundry. Tom C wrote: Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the Fresh Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots. Tom C. From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800 The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem. Tom C wrote: 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
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I haven't posted those. I'll post them later. At the moment, a news agency or two has been given the URL to these photos to use if they need shots of the incident. I didn't want shots of her posing with a big grin showing up in the LA Times. Derek wrote: Oustanding job! I'm a Westsider who doesn't get to the valley much, so this is the first I've seen of the Orange Line. Where are the pictures of your wife smiling with the firemen? (My wife wants to know). Derek P.S. You had a 90 min delay? Sounds like LA mass transit at work! Thanks. I was just kind of snapping away, but too timid to really stick my nose in it. I was afraid that eventually they would ask me to stop if I got too aggressive. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have worried. They were all too busy with their big scene to bother me. As I look the shots over I quickly see they're nowhere near my best work. I guess I myself was a little flustered, plus, as I mentioned, I didnt' want to be too obvious. The thought did cross my mind that if I got too obvious they would assume I was just a passer-by with a camera rather than one of the accident victims, and escort me out from within the police taped boundry. Tom C wrote: Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the Fresh Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots. Tom C. From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800 The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem. Tom C wrote: 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
Re: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Yes, there was a 90 minute delay. Here's why. An officer eventually escorted us to the Woodman stop. But he forgot to inform the metrolink authorities of where we were. So OrangeLine buses were being re-routed past us. We even went and asked a metrolink security officer and he impatiently just said, You're gonna have to work with us on this. 20 minutes later we found an apparent supervisor. She said she didn't even know we were waiting. I said, There were 40 people travelling on the bus. You took 12 away to medical attention. It doesn't take much of a mental leap to realize that you've got 28 people stranded here. A few minutes later they sent a bus by. It's funny because I'm not a normal rider. But sometimes on our day off we jump on the subway to go to the civic center or to hollywood, rather than driving through traffic. Today I was telling my wife that the new Orange Line sounded really convenient, and that we ought to give it a try to see where it goes. We rode less than one stop from the park-and-ride lot before we were struck and delayed 90 minutes. ...very convenient. Dave Derek wrote: Oustanding job! I'm a Westsider who doesn't get to the valley much, so this is the first I've seen of the Orange Line. Where are the pictures of your wife smiling with the firemen? (My wife wants to know). Derek P.S. You had a 90 min delay? Sounds like LA mass transit at work! Thanks. I was just kind of snapping away, but too timid to really stick my nose in it. I was afraid that eventually they would ask me to stop if I got too aggressive. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have worried. They were all too busy with their big scene to bother me. As I look the shots over I quickly see they're nowhere near my best work. I guess I myself was a little flustered, plus, as I mentioned, I didnt' want to be too obvious. The thought did cross my mind that if I got too obvious they would assume I was just a passer-by with a camera rather than one of the accident victims, and escort me out from within the police taped boundry. Tom C wrote: Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the Fresh Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots. Tom C. From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800 The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem. Tom C wrote: 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
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On 2/11/05, David Oswald, discombobulated, unleashed: 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 Well done David. FYI - next time (!) try and get the casualty in the same frame as the bus - that would have been the pic the paper would have wanted. I know it's easy to say that, but shuffle right to the front, go vertical, casualty and team at the bottom of frame, the front of the bus at the top. A couple of shots rattled off before you're asked to step back and bingo. Under the circumstances, you did well. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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That's good advice, and I actually noticed the absence of such a shot afterward when I was reviewing the pictures. I should have gotten in closer and shot wider from that perspective. Most of those shots were taken at the long end of my 16-45.. Cotty wrote: On 2/11/05, David Oswald, discombobulated, unleashed: 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 Well done David. FYI - next time (!) try and get the casualty in the same frame as the bus - that would have been the pic the paper would have wanted. I know it's easy to say that, but shuffle right to the front, go vertical, casualty and team at the bottom of frame, the front of the bus at the top. A couple of shots rattled off before you're asked to step back and bingo. Under the circumstances, you did well. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
