One block away from my house is a street that the city has opened up as a "bypass" through the residential areas. The fire department and police use it as a way to jump to the other side of town going north or south. Our little side street has also been widened and turned into a way to skip across town east/west.
Yesterday I was under my car, changing the oil, when I heard brakes screeching then a crash, then another crash. It was not serious, just stupid.
A kid had tried to whip off a left turn from the north/south street onto our east west street in front of an oncoming car, but a utility company had the side street closed so a man-in-a-hole could do stuff underground.
Apparently, the kid realized that the road was blocked and stopped in the middle of his left turn in front of the oncoming car, who could NOT stop. The oncoming car banged into the kid's car head-on, then bounced off and smashed into the utility truck.
I rolled out from beneath my car to have a look and there were five people standing around already talking on cell phones. No one was hurt, apparently, but everyone's insurance will go up, because a kid who should have been in school won't take the time to drive safely. Probably a one second pause on the kid's part would have prevented the whole affair.
:lol: