Strange events at work today. After a good brown-bag talk that Simon, Don, and I did on our Government Relations department, and an hour-long PAC call that went mostly according to plan, I was down talking with Val in the basement. I heard a car alarm, but didn’t think anything about it. Alarms are always going off, as everyone who lives in an urban or suburban area know, and most folks have habituated to them.

But, this time, there really was something going on. I was on my way back to my office, two floors up, when one of our interns asked if I’d heard the accident? I said no, but I’d heard a car alarm but just ignored it. He replied that no, there was an accident, right in front of our building. A car was upside down! I ran upstairs to my boss’s office and looked out the window. Right out front, there was a small car upside down!

A woman was sitting on the curb and lots of bystanders were around. I would find out later that the woman was the driver of the car and she’d wandered out of the flipped car and sat down. She seemed okay and ambulances, fire trucks, and cops were starting to filter into the street.

My friends and I tried to figure out what happened, since 7th St where we are isn’t a big street. Cars are parked on either side and it’s sometimes hard to even get two cars down the street. It seems the car slammed into a parked car with its right tire, just enough to get it moving upwards on that side. It flipped and slid a small way (only a few meters, probably) on its roof. After about 2 hours, the car was on a tow truck, the woman had been taken away in the ambulance, and the street was being swept up. Here’s one picture and click to see the rest. I took them with my cell phone, so quality isn’t the best, but it’s okay.

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