On the drive back to school, about 12:30 p.m. PST, she was travelling in the left-hand lane on 16th Street (a one-way street, travelling north) when the car in the middle lane (on her right) decided to turn left onto C Street (an illegal movement) across her path with no warning whatsoever. A collision resulted.....
Here is the car of the driver who crossed E.'s path, showing the collision point on the left fender.
Upon collision, E. swerved to the left, smashed through the fence of John Muir Park at 16th and C Streets, and plowed deep into the park. Because it took her fifty feet, or more, to come to a rest, the violence of the collision was greatly mitigated. Surprisingly, her air bag did not deploy.
The collision point on her right fender, together with demolished wheel.
The iron fence snapped free upon collision and got wedged under the front end.
Not much lumpia was left in the container she had placed on the front seat for the trip back to school.
Lumpia everywhere on the dashboard and on the floor!
Left turns onto C Street are permitted from the left lane. The option to continue straight is also permitted. What is not permitted is to turn left from the middle lane: an option the dumbass driver in the red car decided to exercise, and without warning either.
Demolished landscaping.
E., looking forlorn.
Wheel thrashed.
Looking SSE towards the intersection. Fortunately, E. did not hit any park benches, or the park sign, or anything else besides the fence and the landscaping.
Lumpia everywhere, behind shattered glass!
The car was a bit awkward to hoist upon the tow truck.
I don't know how she did it, but E. managed to thread the narrow space in-between the cement sign, and the metal traffic light post, without hitting either obstacle, and thus averted much of the violence of the collision.
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