On my way home tonight from work, my bus was detoured off of Ste. Catherine Street around my transfer point. Having a few minutes to wait for my connection, I wandered back to the corner of Ste. Catherine and St. Denis to see what happened. I figured from the overturned phone booth and broken glass that there had been some vandalism.
Then I saw this:
Near as I can tell, the police car (marked “media relations”) was driving down St. Denis Ste. Catherine, while a passenger car was driving on Ste. Catherine St. Denis. The police car broadsided the passenger car, sending it into the southeast corner where it took out the traffic light/lamppost and phone booth, spreading glass everywhere.
Fortunately, it didn’t look as though anyone was seriously hurt. The front end of the police car absorbed much of the force of the impact as it was designed to do.
A gallery of shots from the scene appears below (thank you, WordPress 2.5!)
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- Two cars from right
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- Broken street furniture
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- Wide shot
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- Police car from front
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- Police car from front right
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- Passenger car from right closeup
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- Passenger car from right
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- Police car from left
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- Phone booth closeup
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- Broken glass
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- Police car from right
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- Phone booth
Wait a sec… if the civilian car is smashed on the passenger side, and if that was caused by the cop car, then the civvy must have been driving the wrong way up Ste. Catherine. (In your scenario, the cop would have hit the civvy on the driver’s side.)
Was the driver’s side also smashed?
You’re right. The other way around makes more sense, especially considering where the passenger car ended up.
That also means the cop car did a 180 after crashing.
One step closer to confirming my suspicion that The Amazing Fagstein is, in fact, Peter Parke—I mean, um, Spider-Man.
Nice shots. J J Jameson will be pleased.
The best news to garner from the scene is that Trinity made the call in time. F’ing agents.