Archive for October 21st, 2018

Driving While Inattentive

Posted by Ed in Oddities, Recumbent Bicycling on 2018-10-21

When you come upon a scene like this, you know someone’s having a Bad Day:

Rt 376 Collision Scene - approach - 2018-09-21

Rt 376 Collision Scene – approach – 2018-09-21

I rode slowly past a line of stopped cars, became a pedestrian, walked through the lawns on the left, then turned back into a bicyclist.

It appeared to be a three-car collision, with two vehicles aligned almost perfectly nose-to-nose in the northbound lane:

Rt 376 Collision Scene - overview - 2018-09-21

Rt 376 Collision Scene – overview – 2018-09-21

The red 2015-ish Forester apparently snagged a rear wheel on the far side of another contestant:

Rt 376 Collision Scene - Forester - 2018-09-21

Rt 376 Collision Scene – Forester – 2018-09-21

Talk about heart-stopping: Mary had driven off to a meeting some hours before. Even though the wrecked Forester differed in enough details to make me absolutely certain it wasn’t ours , Mary got a firmer-than-usual hug when she got home.

A picture not shown: two expressionless officers supervising a guy having great difficulty walking the fog line.

I’ll never know the rest of the story, but the overall outline seems clear.

Other than that, it was a fine day for a ride …

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