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Laura ([personal profile] kyrielle) wrote2004-06-16 09:57 pm
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Various random thoughts.

When I left home this morning, I debated whether to bring my camera or not. I decided not to. The bird will either taunt me or it won't, I figured, I have not yet got a picture of the little attention-hound, so that is not likely to change. (It did, by the way, coming along the ledge while I was talking to someone, who got to see it for the first time.) Of course, I saw several things on the drive in alone that made me want the camera, then. None of them were really photo-worthy on thinking about it, though it's a lovely day out, so you can heave a sigh of relief I did not have it. One was a car with a badly-smashed-up front end, being hauled away on a flatbed tow. Normally I would not give this a second glance - just a nasty wreck and the aftermath.

What made it noteworthy was where I saw this tow truck - pulling out of the trailer park off of Elligsen right by Argyle Square (the shopping center with Costco). If it was hauling the car out of there, presumably the car was in there. Which confuses me. This car looks like it had a nasty collision with something solid at at least 30-40 MPH if not more - the hood was seriously bent up, the left front of the car smashed back and in and the wheel well there distorted. You couldn't sanely do more than 5-10 MPH in that trailer park; I doubt you could get going fast enough before you crashed; but there was no way this car would've moved even two feet after that accident, other than being loaded on a tow.

I kind of want to know how it ended up there, but I really don't. Maybe the tow truck went the wrong way and needed to turn around...but I don't really buy that answer either.
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[identity profile] wytchchyld.livejournal.com 2004-06-17 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe the car was pushed there after it was hit? I know that when my car was totaled, it was pushed off the road and into the parking lot of the bank after the police where there, because it was blocking traffic and was going to be awhile before the tow showed up?
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[personal profile] kyrielle 2004-06-17 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
As I say, there's no way this car would've moved two feet after the accident without a tow. I could be wrong, but from looking at it, I think you could only push it if you had the strength to force it as a dead weight - I don't think the front tires could turn, and at least the one I could see was flat as well as having the wheel well on it. I suppose if the accident were in the intersection, maybe it got pushed in - but then the tow wouldn't have been coming OUT of the driveway, but rather would have blocked the right lane and part of the intersection, I think...I don't think you could get it in far enough to let the tow approach it.

Obviously, ONE of these is possible unless the guy got lost and turned around in there, which I really doubt as there are visibly better spots to turn around anyway. One of them happened. But...yeah. Boggle.

[identity profile] blushing-satyr.livejournal.com 2004-06-18 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Depending on the wreck, and the entrance or the like into the parking lot...

The accident happened, and the car was pushed /by/ the accident, into the parking lot. I've seen things like that before. :)

But yeah, I well understand the whole 'WTF?!?' attitude. :)
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