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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 10:17am on 2005-09-06 under ,

The sound of an economy car getting stuck partway under an eighteen-wheeler (and, I think, getting dragged a short way based on where they ended up) is very different from the sound of two passenger cars striking each other.

(The semi is stopped partway through a left turn. It blocks both travel lanes and both parking lanes of Lombard Street.)

[ETA: The sound of the truck being backed off the car is ... disconcertingly screechy. (Actually, if I could count on all my readers to hear the French "an" sound in their heads when reading -- instead of the English "an" sound -- I would have attempted the onomatpoeia as "scranchy".)]

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posted by [identity profile] misia.livejournal.com at 02:25pm on 2005-09-06
Oh, well done. That's got class, style, and points for innovative blocking of a major arterial.

Golly, I hope everyone's okay.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:40pm on 2005-09-06
Three ambulances, but the body language of the gawkers makes me think it must not be too gory. The truck was blocking my view of the passenger compartment of the car. Now that they're separated, I see that the front end seems to still be mostly car-shaped, and the damage is concentrated along the passenger side -- lots of body damage, but the shape of the passenger compartment is intact. The medics must have had to do something to somebody, because I saw them picking up their own litter just now, but my guess (as well as my hope) is that the driver got off lightly injury-wise.
 
posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 05:14pm on 2005-09-06
What is up with thast new icon?
 
posted by [identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com at 06:16pm on 2005-09-06
skranchy? scraanchy? scrahnchy? scraahncy? skraahnchie?:)

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