Off Subject: Blacktown Police Traffic Accident

I was driving home from Blacktown shops at a quarter past eleven this morning and was slowed down by a long line of traffic. The flashing lights of a several fire-engines immediately caught my eye and I searched for the gigantic blaze that would warrant the attention of so many fire-fighters. That was when I saw the ambulance and the dozen police officers swarming around.

Still, I was too far from the action to actually see what had happened, and I soon realized that this was due to the traffic lights having been turned off. My car rolled forward slower than a bicycle towing a rhino, but eventually I could see the emergency that had caused the pileup.

It was a single smashed up police car sitting in the middle of the intersection, and close by was a traffic light bent completely at right angle. The front of the car looked like a giant had decided it looked tasty enough to crunch with the hood of the car missing or completely smashed in (it was difficult for me to see because the car was facing away from me).

Now, I’m sure I’m not the only one who immediately imagined a rookie cop putting on the sirens and going on a ‘fast and the furious’ joy ride (this is Blacktown after all), but there could well have been a high speed car chase where the traffic violator had run a red light (no pun intended).

I wish I could have stayed around to find out more, but alas the Police officer directing the traffic waved me forward and he looked extremely irritated at how long I had paused to take a look.