I witnessed a head-on car crash once - while walking along the adjacent pavement (sidewalk, to you, I guess). Late at night, car coming down the hill at extremely excessive speed, suddenly swerved into the oncoming lane and smashed into a car coming the other way. Both cars bounced off sideways and went spinning around over the pavement just ahead of me (fortunate I wasn't walking a bit further ahead of where I was). Airbags went off, guy in the car that was hit started screaming.
Fortunately the ambulance and police arrived amazingly quickly - people in adjacent houses must have called them immediately. I didn't have a clue what to do (didn't even have a phone).
I constantly see the wreckage of car crashes on that road - knocked down garden walls, broken windcreen glass all over the place, demolished traffic lights, wrecked cars being lifted out of the road with a crane. People just see a long straight road and drive like maniacs.
Seems like most of the protection they put in cars is for front-on collisions, meaning it protects the driver of the vehicle that drives into others - the very one likely to be responsible for the collision seems to be the most likely to walk away from it.
Fortunately the ambulance and police arrived amazingly quickly - people in adjacent houses must have called them immediately. I didn't have a clue what to do (didn't even have a phone).
I constantly see the wreckage of car crashes on that road - knocked down garden walls, broken windcreen glass all over the place, demolished traffic lights, wrecked cars being lifted out of the road with a crane. People just see a long straight road and drive like maniacs.
Seems like most of the protection they put in cars is for front-on collisions, meaning it protects the driver of the vehicle that drives into others - the very one likely to be responsible for the collision seems to be the most likely to walk away from it.
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