*crash*

[hellziggy]

hellbob & I were within moments of being in a car crash last night. A police chase no less...
We were heading to a friend's house and didn't remember her exact street address, even though we know what street she is on, and the general area. So we were heading north on Emerson and turned left on Lowry so that we could then go south on Fremont (silly one ways) realized that we hadn't gone far enough north so we circled back to Emerson. As we approached Lowry the second time we saw an accident in the intersection. There was already a cop there, one car was off to the left on Lowry on the sidewalk. Then, about a half block up was another car. A Toyota SUV that was pretty mangled both on front & back, and there were a few parked cars that were pretty banged up.
Pretty scary, since we know we were within minutes of being in that intersection at the wrong time.
Then, today, I was watching a taped show from last night and the Kare 11 news went live to the scene of that same accident. That's how I learned that it had been a police chase. A cop had spotted a car driving recklessly and tried to pull it over and the driver decided that trying to flee was a better idea.

Comments

[jenett]

Yikes. There was a rather big accident (it was dark, so I didn't see details, much, just that there was a lot of glass on the street, and something like 4-6 police cars) at Snelling and University last night, too.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was kind of freaky at the time but we didn't really think about it today until I saw that on last night's 10pm news.
Party was fun though! We got to see Becky & Ty along with a whole mess of other people we don't see often enough! :)

[genevra.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad you didn't die in a horrible crash last night!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

We wouldn't have died. We were both wearing our seatbelts and our car has side airbags in addition to the normal ones.
Besides, our car is worth more crashed than not!

[hellbob.livejournal.com]

Actually, we would have been rear-ended by an SUV travelling at high-speeds. The airbags wouldn't have helped us at all since they only deploy on impacts from the front or sides. We were pretty well almost-dead the whole time we were waiting for the light.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Well, it would have depended on which time through the intersection and where we were at.

[jmanna.livejournal.com]

Iiick. I think by Japanese astrology, this weekend was a bad weekend to travel.

We should all just got back to horse drawn carriages. Drunk horses just eat grass.