I witnessed a wreck today.

Glad to hear nobody was seriously hurt.  And big kudos to you for checking on everyone right away.

Now just think, if you had left home 30 seconds earlier, it might've been you entering that intersection first...

...and not on a bike. Stupid F%$#ing people....

Wow - she was still on the phone?

I like how New York has made using a hand-held cellphone illegal while driving. 

I see this all the time in Houston.... stupid girl!  Glad you were ok and checked on everyone and noone else was seriously injured! 

Ok, I have to admit it was kind of cool since no one got hurt. My undergrad is in Mech Engineering and seeing how the BMW crumpled the front but not a bit of damage done beyond the windshield was pretty amazing. The SUV had a big bumperguard on the front of it and sustained no damage at all. Which has had me wondering, is he safer with a bumperguard that protects the vehicle or without a bumperguard so the front of the truck can absorb the impact. Once we knew everyone was OK, the driver of the fire and rescue SUV that was in the wreck said, "I wish I had my camera on - that would have been a great video."

Strangely, until someone mentioned it, I hadn't even thought about if I'd been on my bike. I did think seriously about riding my bike out there. I was going to a park about 12 miles from the house to meet my son's boyscout troop for a few hours. I decided to drive so I could head to the gym for a swim later. After thinking about the possibility of being on a bike, I wish I'd have hurt the little rich girl (j/k but you know what I mean). Stupid kid. And it won't be long before mine are driving. 

Well if the service provider isn't dropping the call, why should she?

They made it a primary offense in NJ, too!  Now those irresponsible drivers that just can't wait to pull over to talk, now can be pulled over for not using a hands free device.  It's also illegal to text message as well.

I'm on patrol this week and have already written at LEAST a dozen tickets.  Everyone please be safe!

Man, I could never live in NJ: Can't text while driving, can't drive around with the snow hat still on my car, can't pump my own gas.

I actually had a gas station attendant that was running around with his head cut off trying to service 6+ cars, say he was going to call the police on me if I didn't get back in my car and STOP pumping my own gas!!

I hate people

I remember when I would visit my sister down in houston, the first thing she instructed me on was, while driving and the light turns green,, don't go,, look around because someone is most likely running the light.   that one bit of advice has saved my bacon a couple of times..

I'm glad she got the brains in the family 

In Houston, that's the three count rule.  I count to three before moving into the intersection after the light changes.  I also am very careful about slowing or trying to stop as the light turns yellow so I don't get rearended by the folks that run red lights. 

Dangerous stuff!

and making me wonder if you read the original post - I didn't see anything in the original story about the 2 cars turning left trying to beat a light, but rather were proceeding when their left turn signal came on.

I saw a wreck a back in Fla on my way to the Keys.

I was driving along and some jacka$$ passes me on the left using the left turn lane of a two lane highway.  His buddy is stuck behind me and tailgates me for miles.  I pull over to let him pass.

I end up following these two until the highway becomes four lanes.  They start weaving between all the cars in front and racing each other.  The one buddies car tags the other baddies car and sends it into the oncoming traffic on the other side of the bridge.

I stop to help out and see something I never want to see again behind the drivers side.  Poor lady never saw it coming.