SFist: Scenes From an Accident at Pine and Battery

jnice

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:56:29 -0800

that place behind it makes tasty pasta but takes too long

Jonathan Neil

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:50:04 -0800

It appears to be a Lexus RX350.

bluecanary

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:36:15 -0800

I couldn't tell, it was just some small suv-ish type thing. I was mainly looking for evidence of death/blood/entrail spillage, didn't pay too close of attention to the car itself.

wsanders

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:24:45 -0800

I wondered what the racket was, I heard it from my vantage point on the throne in the men's room, so I was prevented from springing into my superhero costume and responding. It sounded like a bunch of stuff falling. Is that a Honda CR-V on it's roof? Or a Kia? At any rate, if you're speeding at 50-plus down Pine or Battery, like pretty much everyone does when traffic is not jammed up, it's pretty easy to oversteer and roll, particularly if you're been hit in front or behind an axle.

bluecanary

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:05:09 -0800

I don't know. It didn't even look like the car was damaged that badly. It must have been hit at just the right angle or something. All I could see was that a side mirror was damaged. And like I said, there was minimal damage to the red car. Just left a bumper in the road and the front was dented in, but not horribly smashed or anything.

Brock Keeling

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:48:36 -0800

"what would cause a car to flip like that?" packed action.

MalcoveMagnesia

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:46:26 -0800

what would cause a car to flip like that? a sideswipe? a stunt ramp?

bluecanary

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:42:56 -0800

At any rate, it appeared the red car came down Pine, and t-boned the grey car at the intersection of Pine and Battery. The red car pulled over immediately, onto Battery, facing Market, so I don't think anyone was coming down Pine the wrong way.

bluecanary

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:39:52 -0800

I saw it. It looked like something out of Die Hard. As best I could figure out, the guy in the red car was going the correct way down Pine (the correct way IS toward the ocean, right?). It appeared to me (and I did not see the initial impact, only the grey car flying through the air), that either someone was running a red light, or the grey car was turning right onto pine and not watching for traffic coming in his direction.

Joel

Tue, 27 May 2008 11:46:30 -0800

Wow, I work around the corner from there and was wondering what all the racket was.