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I'd always wondered about those scenes in disaster movies and dystopian TV series with the queues of abandoned cars backed up behind the site of an accident.
Well (and at this point I'm forced to say: here we go again!) at just gone seven this morning thee was a huge sound as of a crash from outside the front of the house. Yup, a truck has taken out the lights at the end of the bus lane and had come to a halt mere inches from our parked car. Eventually, police car, ambulance, tow-truck. The police have just finished picking up the bits. It'll be interesting to see when the lights are fixed.
I left home at just before eight to pop into the office to pick up my laptop and headset (yesterday we were planning our stress test the connectivity for Friday, but the situation has rather preemtped that) and just by the path onto the common, there was a pair of cars parked up, inspecting damage, exchanging phone numbers....
Not disasters, either of these, but maybe a sign of folks' lack of attention when worried and stressed. Mostly, the road outside is relatively empty.
This is, apparently, the way the world ends, not with a whimper but with the bang of low-speed vehicle collisions.
Well (and at this point I'm forced to say: here we go again!) at just gone seven this morning thee was a huge sound as of a crash from outside the front of the house. Yup, a truck has taken out the lights at the end of the bus lane and had come to a halt mere inches from our parked car. Eventually, police car, ambulance, tow-truck. The police have just finished picking up the bits. It'll be interesting to see when the lights are fixed.
I left home at just before eight to pop into the office to pick up my laptop and headset (yesterday we were planning our stress test the connectivity for Friday, but the situation has rather preemtped that) and just by the path onto the common, there was a pair of cars parked up, inspecting damage, exchanging phone numbers....
Not disasters, either of these, but maybe a sign of folks' lack of attention when worried and stressed. Mostly, the road outside is relatively empty.
This is, apparently, the way the world ends, not with a whimper but with the bang of low-speed vehicle collisions.
