when bizarre things happen in the middle of the night.
it's been a strange night. alvin and i were sitting upstairs having conversation number 342 about why i'm leaving (also, about how i've been acting shitty lately), when the dogs ran outside and started howling. it was eerie. soon after we heard the squeal of tires on asphalt and the sickening thud that a car makes when it runs into, say, another car. i've heard cars smash into things before and this was by far the worst crash noise i've ever heard. i park my car on the street and my first thought was, no! someone hit my car! but what actually happened was way weirder than that.
we ran outside along with a bunch of our neighbors and saw a man staggering around but no obvious signs of damage. i had taken the phone with me to call 911 but someone already had--and it was oddly and completely unclear what had happened. so the fire trucks and ambulance arrived and then staggering dude was on the ground, and then a bit later he was covered up. someone pointed out that dude's car had landed perfectly on top of our neighbor's car that was parked in their (very long) driveway, about 50 feet from where dude was lying and we were standing. this happened at the intersection of our street and a cross street where the streets form a T--apparently dude was driving super fast down the cross street, got to our street and didn't stop in time, and somehow his car flew through the air and hit a building before landing on top of neighbor people's parked car. it was unclear whether he was thrown from the car or got out on his own, and i'm trying to avoid thinking about why the ambulance wasn't in any hurry to take him to the hospital and why he was covered a few minutes later. and then the ambulance still wasn't moving and that's just really not good.
everyone is gone now. the street was washed off by the nice firefighter people and dude's car is still hanging out on top of the car belonging to the neighbors who, unfortunately, aren't home. how weird is it going to be to come home to that? it was surreal. i'm glad no one else was hurt, but i'm not so sure dude walked away from that one.
we ran outside along with a bunch of our neighbors and saw a man staggering around but no obvious signs of damage. i had taken the phone with me to call 911 but someone already had--and it was oddly and completely unclear what had happened. so the fire trucks and ambulance arrived and then staggering dude was on the ground, and then a bit later he was covered up. someone pointed out that dude's car had landed perfectly on top of our neighbor's car that was parked in their (very long) driveway, about 50 feet from where dude was lying and we were standing. this happened at the intersection of our street and a cross street where the streets form a T--apparently dude was driving super fast down the cross street, got to our street and didn't stop in time, and somehow his car flew through the air and hit a building before landing on top of neighbor people's parked car. it was unclear whether he was thrown from the car or got out on his own, and i'm trying to avoid thinking about why the ambulance wasn't in any hurry to take him to the hospital and why he was covered a few minutes later. and then the ambulance still wasn't moving and that's just really not good.
everyone is gone now. the street was washed off by the nice firefighter people and dude's car is still hanging out on top of the car belonging to the neighbors who, unfortunately, aren't home. how weird is it going to be to come home to that? it was surreal. i'm glad no one else was hurt, but i'm not so sure dude walked away from that one.
posted by sarah at 8:09 PM
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whoa....
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