Beautiful sunset with a not so beautiful view (Jake Buchanan/St Petersburg, FL)
People watching turned interesting when a distracted man hit his gas pedal instead of his brake. This resulted in a torn-off bumper and many shocked people. From 2021-3-27
photo posted by jake in Monday, March 29, 2021
Well, this is probably the strangest sunset photo I've ever taken. We had a traffic incident happen on the street outside our balcony tonight. It seemed like a bit of road rage when it happened, but I actually think it was an accident. Coincidentally, we got our patio cam back online this afternoon and caught the entire thing on video.
The guy on the right in the orange ball cap ran over the island in the middle and hit the white car. His tire had ran up on the island as he approached the end of the street; he overcorrected in response and then shot over the island to avoid a car in front of him, hitting the parked white car. Crazy sequence of events. Luckily no one was hurt (including a pedestrian who was walking right for the white car and, had it happened 10 seconds later, might have been directly in the path of the oncoming car).
Meanwhile, the sun did its thing, in somewhat spectacular fashion.
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photo posted by matt in Saturday, March 27, 2021