§ April 20, 2007
Fun at the office
The windows in our office building (the windows I sit right in front of) look directly out over Campbell road in Richardson. Its a fairly busy road (three lanes on each side). The company relocated to this office space around March of last year. Since that time we've seen people run into light poles, get in a few finder binders, and come really close to smashing each other to bits, but today took the cake.
Around 5:30 or 6:00 PM people are quietly working away trying to wrap things up, or playing a round of pinball at the office pinball machine, when all of the sudden you hear a really loud BOOM out on the street. There was no screeching tires, no horns honking, just a loud thunderous crash sound. Our office is one big room, everybody sits at tables looking at everyone else, and we all popped up to take a look outside.
All three lanes headed east are bumper to bumber. There seems to be four or five cars seemingly fused together. There's a large SUV (I'm guessing a ford explorer) missing most of its "what used to be a hood / engine area of the car", the guy inside is hidden behind a wall of air bags. Four cars seemingly fused together (at first it looked like much more because of all the traffic) end to end.
The poor sod at the back was the red SUV. He had plowed into the back end of a huge suburban, who had then managed to get up under the bumper of the buick sedan in front of her, who then ate the back end of a nissan.
The gal in front faired the best with what looked like a banged up rear bumper.
The buick sedan who was next was firmly supplanted on the hood of the suburban looked to be done in.
The suburban looked pretty much unscathed except for the transmission fluid which was now starting to leak from the car at an alarming rate. It had taken the brunt of the (assumingly) 45 MPH impact of the SUV. I can only imagine what would have happened to that poor buick had the suburban not been between them. The force of the impact was so strong that it had smashed the Suburban's transmission causing what looked like a large pool of blood (transmission fluid is red) to seep from beneath it.
The people involved started to get out of their vehicles (except the guy in the SUV) and try to figure out what the heck just happened. It was a while before anyone made any calls on their mobile phones (like to call the police), but the Richardson police have a pretty heavy presence on that road and it wasn't long before there were teams of cops blocking off traffic and getting things sorted.
That pretty much killed the rest of our work day, and provided us with some (albeit morbid) entertainment.
I snapped a photo with my phone (which totally doesn't do it justice, but its a crappy RAZR and the shots where I zoomed in, ended up actually just being cropped pics of this one).
The windows in our office building (the windows I sit right in front of) look directly out over Campbell road in Richardson. Its a fairly busy road (three lanes on each side). The company relocated to this office space around March of last year. Since that time we've seen people run into light poles, get in a few finder binders, and come really close to smashing each other to bits, but today took the cake.
Around 5:30 or 6:00 PM people are quietly working away trying to wrap things up, or playing a round of pinball at the office pinball machine, when all of the sudden you hear a really loud BOOM out on the street. There was no screeching tires, no horns honking, just a loud thunderous crash sound. Our office is one big room, everybody sits at tables looking at everyone else, and we all popped up to take a look outside.
All three lanes headed east are bumper to bumber. There seems to be four or five cars seemingly fused together. There's a large SUV (I'm guessing a ford explorer) missing most of its "what used to be a hood / engine area of the car", the guy inside is hidden behind a wall of air bags. Four cars seemingly fused together (at first it looked like much more because of all the traffic) end to end.
The poor sod at the back was the red SUV. He had plowed into the back end of a huge suburban, who had then managed to get up under the bumper of the buick sedan in front of her, who then ate the back end of a nissan.
The gal in front faired the best with what looked like a banged up rear bumper.
The buick sedan who was next was firmly supplanted on the hood of the suburban looked to be done in.
The suburban looked pretty much unscathed except for the transmission fluid which was now starting to leak from the car at an alarming rate. It had taken the brunt of the (assumingly) 45 MPH impact of the SUV. I can only imagine what would have happened to that poor buick had the suburban not been between them. The force of the impact was so strong that it had smashed the Suburban's transmission causing what looked like a large pool of blood (transmission fluid is red) to seep from beneath it.
The people involved started to get out of their vehicles (except the guy in the SUV) and try to figure out what the heck just happened. It was a while before anyone made any calls on their mobile phones (like to call the police), but the Richardson police have a pretty heavy presence on that road and it wasn't long before there were teams of cops blocking off traffic and getting things sorted.
That pretty much killed the rest of our work day, and provided us with some (albeit morbid) entertainment.
I snapped a photo with my phone (which totally doesn't do it justice, but its a crappy RAZR and the shots where I zoomed in, ended up actually just being cropped pics of this one).
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago on April 20, 2007
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