No injuries in loud downtown crash
By adamg - 5/12/11 - 9:52 pm
Roving photographer Jake Wark caught the aftermath of a crash around 6 p.m. on New Chardon Street, in which a car jumped the curb and a raised planter to plow into a building. Car was seriously damaged, building was cracked, a window taken out, but nobody injured, he reports.
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Roving photographer?
How can you write that with a straight face? Isn't Wark's day job as spokesman for the Suffolk County DA?
Who said I wrote that with a straight face?
The Onion has its Area Man and I have my Roving Photographer, who wanders around shooting spot news.
You're right, Jake's day job is at the DA's office. Note the time of the time of the crash, though. He was on his way home at the time (from his office right around the corner from where the crash happened).
This isn't the first car photo of his I've run. The first was even more dramatic.
Speaking of the DA's office,
Speaking of the DA's office, do we know what charges were filed against the suspect?
No charges were sought, at
No charges were sought, at least as of this morning. The operator and two witnesses cited mechanical failure of some sort. When the car wouldn't stop, he steered into the wall.
Sorry about the accident, and hope nobody was hurt, but
one has to ask why the driver of the car was using a car that clearly had something mechanically wrong with it in the first place, instead of getting the car checked out and fixed if and as necessary before before driving it and having mechanical failure set in.
Miki,
it isn't clear that the person knew the car had problems when s/he started operating it. Person might have been driving and suddenly couldn't slow the car down. Didn't we all learn in driver's ed to stop a runaway car by sideswiping stuff until you're slow enough you can plow into something, rather than taking out pedestrians or anything? It seems as if this person acted appropriately.