Category: Accident of the Month

Here's this month's Car Accident which actually happened in September but I thought I'd save it for October as it was only a day or two after the first one. The bonehead on the motorbike shot by us doing twice the speed limit on Murray Street as we were on our way home from work, leaving us in his exhaust as he rounded the turn on to Ioco Road in Port Moody. A minute or two later we rounded the same corner and came across the scene shown in the photos below. It appears Speed Racer was travelling so fast that he couldn't stop when the driver ahead applied their brakes and stopped at a pedestrian crosswalk. How dare they! Speed Racer collided, was launched off his crotch-rocket into the…

During my trips back and forth between the Tri-Cities and Vancouver I tend to witness a fair number of motor vehicle accidents, from minor fender-benders to gory head-ons with fatalities. Which gave me the idea of incorporating a new feature on this blog, namely 'Car Accident of the Month', a pictorial representation of the most interesting and creative accidents I see. I'll start this feature with a dandy. This astute motorist managed to roll his/her car on to its side at the corner of Hastings and Cassiar on a clear, relatively dry day without the aid of movie special effects or even a capable stuntman. An obvious attention seeking showoff but worthy of this month's award, here's the first in a series of bonehead, vehicular missteps on the streets of…