Oh, my gosh! Just about 5 minutes ago there was, yet, another two vehicle accident on the corner where our house is located in Pekin, Il!
That's gotta be about 15 accidents on that corner since we've lived here! FYI, everybody seemed to be okay, and a police officer, in his police car, was right there to see it happen. He was so close he almost became part of the scene of the crime, if running a stop sign is still considered a crime.
That's usually what happens. The perp (perpetrator) will not be paying attention (texting or something), and run right through the stop sign on Caroline Street...and WHAMMO...hit the vic (victim), who has no stop sign, driving full speed down 11th Street!
Boom!!! It always sounds like a small bomb has gone off when it happens, and scares the dog!
Give me a sec, 'cause I'm gonna look out the window and see how things are progressing.
I'm back. The victim's car is gone already, and the perp's car is on a tow truck, due to extensive damage to the back end. Wow! That was FAST! It usually takes the cops an hour or more, just to do the interrogations!
At least no ambulances were needed this time. Thank God!
I also thank God that no one has ever been killed on 11th and Caroline! The corner of mayhem and destruction!!
I often (that's often with a silent t, the way it's supposed to be pronounced) feel as if folks are a bit distracted while driving in this 21st Century...Fox.
Yes, I know we were distracted way back in the 1950's, by whining kids, getting White Castle hamburgers out of the boxes, adjusting the radio, pushing in and grabbing the pop out cigarette lighter, rolling down the window by hand, smoking Pall Malls, having the "suicide knob" come off at 65 miles per...but none of that stuff was anywhere near as distracting as TEXTING, for some unexplained, mysterious reason.
So, whatever I was going to blog about today was rudely interrupted by ANOTHER traffic accident that was totally avoidable!
Please pay more attention, drivers of Pekin! I do not want to have to see the city street sweeper have to remove your splattered remains from the pavement, and Chevy (me dog) is suffering P.T.S.D WAY too often from the crashing sound, and you don't want Chevy on your keister, do ya?
