Ever see an accident?

[lesliepear]

I remembered this after something astrojetta posted today:

Saturday after leaving Alan's disasterous doctor appointment - I was looking up the block to make a left turn when I saw a dark blue car go flying and heard a crash. I made my turn, pulled over to park and went up the street to see what happened bringing my cell phone. (Mark and Alan were in the car). A car had pulled out of a driveway into a second car on the street which went into a parked car on the other side of the street. I called 911 and stayed until I could see that everyone was ok (they were, but I suspect the dark blue car is totalled as the front wheel was bent badly) and that I could give my name as a witness. I felt it was the right thing to do.

I had a similar thing happen 20 (!) years ago when I lived in Massachusetts. I had put my stuff on the trunk of my car after leaving a convience store was rummaging through my purse for my key when I saw a car accident. The details are fuzzy now but it involved someone entering or leaving a parking lot and someone on the street. And I remember someone was shook up or out of it. I stayed until the police came and I was called or contacted by at least one insurance company about it.

It's definitely the right thing to do. And fortunately insurance companies can't charge or blame you for it!

Comments

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I saw a very minor accident yesterday. A large vehicle (SUV or Minvan, it was hard to tell from my vantage point) swerved a little too close to the bus I was riding on, and took out the tail lights on the bus. Then the stupid car just drove off! Meanwhile the bus driver had to stop and phone it in, and she got several people to sign statements as witnesses to the fact that it was utterly not her fault. The bus was at a bus stop at that moment and not in motion. She never made it to the back of the bus (where I witnessed the whole thing) so I didn't get to sign her statement.

I didn't feel any impact whatsoever, proving that a city bus can beat up an SUV! :-)

[mrscake.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree that you did the right thing. Glad everyone was OK.

[eloren.livejournal.com]

Must have been a morning for it. Turning onto the road to drop the little people at daycare, I saw a bright yellow Porche Boxter that may or may not ever drive again - it looked like the driver had started to cross traffic coming out of a fast food place and was clipped by a mini-van. I think the Porche might belong to someone at my office, cause there is such a car usually in our parking lot, and I haven't seen it today...