Last night Bridge and I were in my apartment when we heard a horrendous car crash outside. I thought it might be somewhere a few blocks away or maybe on the highway (which runs right by my apartment building) but Bridge was adamant that it might be somebody closeby and they might need help. I don't know what my problem was but I was more or less convinced that somebody else, somebody closer to the accident would call 911 and make sure everyone was okay. Bridge however couldn't sit still, something in her told her that she needed to go outside and see if she could help. So we agreed to go take a look.

This is what we saw directly in front of the apartment complex:

I-10 is in the background at the top. It runs right next to the cul-du-sac where I live, it's elevated about 35 feet, and there is a grassy embankment with a few trees on it that slopes down to the cul-du-sac. The Ford Explorer that is laying on it's side was cutoff by another vehicle and the Explorer was forced off of the freeway. A woman who lives in the corner unit in the building saw it happen. She says the truck flew off the interstate and was in the air before it hit ground and then flipped over to land on it's side.

When we got outside we saw a man with a mohawk lifting an older woman out of the passenger side window (which was now facing upwards). Turns out she was almost completely unhurt -- a few scratches on her arm was all the damage she had incurred. There was a man in the car with her who was also unhurt. They both had their seatbelts on.

Bridge gave the woman her sweater and then ran and got a chair from the apartment for her to sit on. The car that the Explorer landed on belonged to a guy across the hall from me.

The fire trucks showed up a few minutes later, three of them, and the police as well. None of us could believe that no one was hurt. They took the man and woman to the hospital in an ambulance despite the protests of the woman. The medics said that there could be some internal injuries that aren't noticeable from the outside. So to be safe they needed to go to the hospital to get checked out.

The car that cut in front of the Ford Explorer on the highway which resulted in the Explorer barrelling off the embankment apparently pulled over briefly and then drove away. How can they live with the thought that they might be the cause of somebody's death? The CHP is investigating. Unfortunately the owners of the Explorer don't have insurance. So things get complicated for the three other vehicles that were also damaged. But at the heart of things is the fact that nobody was killed.