If Only No One Saw!

It halloween night and I was up late just chatting and stuff online. My room is at the front of the house, and I heard this loud noise outside, like someone knocking over metal garbage cans. At close to 2am, this is a strange sound, so I peeked out the window.

I’m not sure I believed what I see, but I cupped my hands around my eyes, to get a good look. Somebody had just ran into the concrete lightpole in our front yard, and knocked it clean down. It was hard to see, but I didn’t see any other cars on the road, or any movement. Then I see a man emerge from the vehicle, I was weary of going outside, since it seemed this man was probably drunk. I opened the window to ask if he’s ok, but he begins walking away. Where’s he going? He was walking on the road, crossing the street….no….he was walking towards another vehicle. That car began backing up…fleeing the scene?!?! I grabbed my phone and head downstairs, called the cops!

As I was standing outside on the phone, somebody drives by and stops to see if everything was ok…and leaves. Shortly after, my neighbour’s son came out (he was up too), and recanted what I just told the police. The cops finally show up with a few other people, first a tow truck driver from down the street looking to make a few extra bucks, but can’t because the cops have a contract with another company. He hangs around anyways. Then Mr. Driver’s parents show up, and lo and behold, the car that was backing up earlier at the time of the accident reappears!

Here’s a quick synopsis, both my neighbour and I saw Mr. Driver walk off and leave the scene. The car he was walking towards, witnessed the accident, then followed Mr. Driver, who called his father to come pick him up. Mr. Father, tried to pass off to the police that HE had been driving, being sober and all. The cops told us, that the Mr. Driver had worked all day, then went to a halloween party, and had 3 beers. By the looks of it, he fell asleep at the wheel. From the time I heard the noise to the time I was “free to go”, after giving my statement etc, took an hour.

Here’s some aftermath:

Where the lightpost once stood..that whitish suff to the right is rubble…he hit it hard enough that it crumbled

This tree is the house next door (not the neighbour that was awake)….it was knocked down by the light standard.

~ by Amir on November 2, 2008.