FJ Cruisers of Northern California

how's the man ?

Of course, I am.

I was driving on I-580 in Oakland (somewhere near Bozlys). Not much traffic in the morning. Maybe 15-20 cars in sight. There were 2 cars in front of me, maybe 300ft away. We were driving ca 70mph. Suddenly one of the cars change 2 lines and then loose control, just where bouncing from line to line. The other car slowed down a bit seeing it in the mirror and then the bouncing car hit it from the side and make it spin. It spined 180 degrees, run through 3 lines and smashed with its side into a concrete wall (at speed maybe 40-50). I bet you, it looked nasty.
All cars in sight slowed down a bit but noone stop. I look ahead of me, and you know what ? the guy who caused the excident start accelerating! 100% hit and run case.
I stopped and run to see if the guy in the smashed car was alive. supprisingly noone else stopped (come on, what is wrong with people?, there were 15+ witnesses and noone gave shit about what they had seen, and I tell you it did not look like a regular fender bender but like a serious crash!).
fortunatelly a few seconds after the crash a HWP car enter the freeway from the exit nearby. the HWP officer didnt see the accident itself but realized that the guy who casued it was running away. he started the pursuit.

the guy in the smashed car was alive but did not seem to understand me, he was in shock and had some problems with arm and sholder...i dont know what happen to him later as he was taken care of people from two fireengines that came few minutes later..

anyway, there were more HWP cars coming to block the freeway. i was the only witness and i was happy to testify. in the meantime i learnt that the pursuit was successful. with my testimony there was no others questions asked, clear case. guy is in jail (to be realised for 20k$ if I understoo correctly from the policeman's radio).

To summarize, I am sad to see that people do not care to stop and help others.
Lesson learnt is that if you care to stop, testify you may really help the police to clean this world from idiots that hit and run.

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Permalink Reply by C4B_ROCKs on May 3, 2010 at 1:29pm

Good looking out Magic..

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Permalink Reply by DivnGirl on May 3, 2010 at 1:34pm

It truly is sad to hear only our Maciek stopped to help. Back in college, I was the one who totaled my car on 101 (solo accident). And thank goodness for the one car who blocked me from on-coming traffic and the two other folks who got out of their car to push mine three lanes to the side of the 101. I never had a chance to thank them for caring about someone they didn't know and for putting their lives on the line to make sure I was out of harms way. Maciek...even thought the victim was in shock and out of it...I'm sure he too is greatful for a little humanity in this world and appreciates all the ways in which you helped him that day!

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Permalink Reply by WTFMatt on May 3, 2010 at 8:38pm

Way to go Magic! A fine example for all!

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Permalink Reply by manoweb on May 3, 2010 at 8:56pm

What I do not understand, the guy that you helped was IN FRONT of the one that caused the accident, but got involved because he slowed down?

I remember when I was in Russia few months ago, we were traveling from city to city and we would regularly stop to take care of rolled over vehicles at the side of the dark and icy road... In California it never rains or snows, it's so strange there are so many accidents anyway

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Permalink Reply by Bz on May 3, 2010 at 10:18pm

Al, we have some of the craziest drivers around....

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Permalink Reply by magicthechemist on May 3, 2010 at 10:22pm

Alesio, yes, two cars were driving at the same speed, one in the back start bouncing between the lines, one in front slow down so both cars became at the same level and then they crashed.