July 18, 2006
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Okay, just got back from running a couple of errands. Almost saw what would have been a bad accident!
I was on Camp Bowie Blvd. heading west, coming up to the intersection with Byers, in front of the shopping center containing Kay's Hallmark. An important facet of the situation is that Byers crosses Camp Bowie at a sharp angle, instead of intersecting it perpendicularly, hence those coming from the west on Byer can easily see the oncoming traffic on Camp Bowie that's coming from the east:
The large, reddish street is Camp Bowie (it's made of bricks, accounting for the color), and the street going straight east-west is Byers. I was roughly where the bus is...a bit farther back, though...and the pick-up truck was in the left lane, ahead of me. The light was red. Redder'n red. Couldn't possibly have been more red.
Truck totally ignored it, sailing majestically through the intersection.
Well, until he nearly slammed into the woman driving an SUV who was coming through from Byers, heading east. She paid no attention to this rather large pick-up truck that wasn't even slowing down, never mind stopping, not until it was maybe twenty feet from her, if that. They both slammed on their brakes and swerved right, missing each other by inches.
As the woman drove on past me, getting onto Camp Bowie, I saw her twist her head around to glare at the receding truck, obviously telling whoever it was she was talking to on her cell phone all about her scary near-miss.
Yup, she was on the cell phone, which doubtless explained why she didn't notice the truck at about 11 o'clock not stopping.
Finally caught up with the truck at the intersection with Horne, and surprise surprise! HE was on HIS cell phone!
Imagine my astonishment.
So here were two drivers, both obviously paying a lot more attention to their phone conversations than what was going on around them, as he blithely runs a red and she doesn't notice a truck she can easily see at 11 o'clock isn't stopping as he should.
Do NOT talk on the phone while driving!!!!
Comments (5)
Wow, both the closeness of the crash and how you presented it on the blog!! You are da one!!! Or whatever it is kids say. Very well done! Isn't it fun what one can find on the internet!
I know Camp Bowie well.
Hey, look who survived his trip to the dentist!
Dentists....ick!
So many accidents are caused by cel phone users. We were behind a girl in a convertible smoking a cigarette, talking on the cel phone and piddling with stuff in her car, amazing. My husband has a hands free thingy for his phone and will call if he's hung up in traffic, but hangs up once traffic starts to move again (okay sometimes he will drive almost all the way home complaining about the other drivers, but his hands are free and if you could hear the conversation you'd know better than to try to converse with him about anything other than the way people drive). I don't have a hands free thingy on my cel phone, and most of the time I forget to charge the battery or turn the phone on. (and I drive a stick shift, so dialing and driving is out of the question, I find it easier to tell one of the kids to call for me).
Hey!! I like my dentist! He is afraid of dentists himself so he makes sure that you are in absolutely no pain
I like that thought, going to a dentist who is himself afraid of having his teeth worked on!
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