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major_clanger) wrote2008-08-22 06:31 pm
major_clanger) wrote2008-08-22 06:31 pm
A bad day for someone
Looking out the window, I noticed police tape across the access road running between the police station car part and the telephone exchange (both of which my flat overlooks). At first I wondered if something had happened in the access road, but then I saw that there was more tape over the far side of West India Dock Rd and that there was a lot of police activity. Wondering what was going on, I grabbed my camera bag and walked down to the end of my street, from where I have a view back along West India Dock Rd.
I'm clearly not news photographer material, because having seen the cause of all the activity, I decided that taking any pictures would be too morbid.
It's not exactly clear what happened, but evidently a motorbike had a pretty nasty smash right outside Limehouse police station. Given the location, it's tempting to assume that one of the vehicles involved might have been entering or leaving the car park, but I have no way of knowing. All I can say is that from what was left of the bike it must have been a pretty violent collision. No sign of the driver, although there was an ambulance in attendance. There were also about twenty cops, which is not surprising given that the accident took place literally on their doorstep and just next to a major road junction (needless to say, the whole area is now snarled up even worse than normal for 6pm on a Friday).
Of course, for someone (or their family), things are a lot worse than getting home late from work.
I'm clearly not news photographer material, because having seen the cause of all the activity, I decided that taking any pictures would be too morbid.
It's not exactly clear what happened, but evidently a motorbike had a pretty nasty smash right outside Limehouse police station. Given the location, it's tempting to assume that one of the vehicles involved might have been entering or leaving the car park, but I have no way of knowing. All I can say is that from what was left of the bike it must have been a pretty violent collision. No sign of the driver, although there was an ambulance in attendance. There were also about twenty cops, which is not surprising given that the accident took place literally on their doorstep and just next to a major road junction (needless to say, the whole area is now snarled up even worse than normal for 6pm on a Friday).
Of course, for someone (or their family), things are a lot worse than getting home late from work.
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It always puzzles me that there's so much apparent interest in odd, freakish deaths, or deaths on public transport, but so little attention goes to run-of-the-mill road deaths. Not long ago, I heard a traffic news reporter say breezily, "The air ambulances are just taking off, so things should be getting back to normal any time." Can you imagine that in coverage of a plane or train crash? I guess we're all in some kind of collective denial because it really *could* be us.
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