January 23, 2008

slow down, or at least pay attention

As i was driving to the house today, (see following post for reason why) i see two mini vans both heading for the same intersection at very high speeds. Apparently i was the only one who saw it coming. They met pretty much in the exact center of the intersection without having touched their brakes. One van spun around, went backwards and died, and the other jumped the curb and came to rest about 10 feet from the front door of a house.
I pulled up a couple seconds later to find one woman running circles around her vehicle and the other woman looking totally confused and wondering what happened. I immediately called Ames police and was greeted by a very rude woman who pretty much yelled her questions at me. 20 minutes later the police finally show up. One womans husband was able to drive clear from north ames and still beat the policeman by a good 5 minutes. crazy.
One woman was fine and the other had to get checked out by the ambulance people (that showed up 5 minutes after the policeman). One van is probably totaled (dodge caravan) and the other was actually not too bad (Montana)
both women were in a hurry to pick up their kids from school. too bad for them they didn't car pool.

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