Vehicular crashes in the press -- most are routine affairs, where drivers miscalculate or daydream and crash into telephone poles, walls, or each other.
'Special effects' crashes, however, confirm the suspicion that some "strength in numbers" credo is occasionally permitted to dominate the roadways; one lone car or truck quite suddenly 'strays' as if choreographed to do so, in a way that seems right from some social science perspectives yet becomes spectacularly destructive.
San Francisco, CA: A car crashes through the storefront window of a daycare center, and continues on to the inside, plowing through classrooms and furniture. In the same city, a car is wrapped around a fire hydrant, breaking it such that water streams into and fills the convertible seating section.
Oakland, CA: A semi-tractor-trailor truck carrying petroleum product flips and rolls on a freeway overpass moving towards the San Francisco Bay Bridge and peninsula; flames "engulf" the truck and completely burn the overpass until it becomes ash. A local pediatrician disappears but her car is found underwater in the harbor.
Stuart, FL: Not once but as multiple incidents, a car leaves the roadway and crashes into the front of a house. A car wrecks Christmas decorations within the domain of historic downtown Stuart, at a roundabout crossing featuring a sailfish statue. A car is somehow bent into the shape of an arch quite precisely, as if the new shape is a predictable option.
After reading about such crashes and learning the truth from others, we are glad that newspapers and television journalism exist to warn about such incidents.
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