03-19-2011, 03:11 AM
As to the wreck on Kaloli, Pam and I saw the whole thing. This is what I wrote elsewhere:
Pam and I saw the whole thing. The car almost hit us coming out of either 17th or 18th onto Kaloli but managed to stop. We carried on driving east back towards home but it came speeding after us, overtook at very high speed and still accelerating. On that steep bit of road at around 20th the car was likely doing around 70mph (my estimate), took off and when it landed the driver lost control and went off the side and flipped the car a few times. I was the first one at the scene and thought I'd find the driver dead but he was alive. No way we could get him out though with the car upside down and partly crushed although if there had been a fire we may have tried dragging him through one of the windows. So I and by now a couple of other people just tried to comfort the driver and try and keep him still until help arrived (Pam was on the phone to 911).
Police, ambulance and a firetruck soon arrived and got the guy out. Remarkably he was able to stand up. Pam and I gave a statement but were both pretty shaken up. I really thought we had just watched someone die and if we had been a couple of seconds earlier we would have been T-boned by him.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/
Pam and I saw the whole thing. The car almost hit us coming out of either 17th or 18th onto Kaloli but managed to stop. We carried on driving east back towards home but it came speeding after us, overtook at very high speed and still accelerating. On that steep bit of road at around 20th the car was likely doing around 70mph (my estimate), took off and when it landed the driver lost control and went off the side and flipped the car a few times. I was the first one at the scene and thought I'd find the driver dead but he was alive. No way we could get him out though with the car upside down and partly crushed although if there had been a fire we may have tried dragging him through one of the windows. So I and by now a couple of other people just tried to comfort the driver and try and keep him still until help arrived (Pam was on the phone to 911).
Police, ambulance and a firetruck soon arrived and got the guy out. Remarkably he was able to stand up. Pam and I gave a statement but were both pretty shaken up. I really thought we had just watched someone die and if we had been a couple of seconds earlier we would have been T-boned by him.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/