Crash!

Not us... we were just witnesses.  We were leaving the Oaks Mall and waiting at a busy intersection for a green arrow.  The light was red for the traffic going in our direction.  All of a sudden the lady in the lane next to us started pulling out against the red light.  Jeff and I both noticed what she was doing and I said something like, "This is not going to end well."  She made it across two lanes but an SUV was coming in the far right lane and clipped her in her rear bumper.  It sent him sailing across the intersection where he hit the center divider and flipped over.  There were cars everywhere so it was lucky no other cars were hit.  Jeff stopped and I got out and went across the street to where other people had helped the man in the SUV get to safety and a place where he could sit down.  He was bleeding from the head and dirty but otherwise coherent.  I wanted him to know Jeff and I had witnessed the whole thing so I gave him a note with our name and phone number. By then the police were there (everyone including Jeff had called 911) and the policeman asked me for my driver's license and other info so he could take my statement and make a report.  As many cars as were around, only a few had seen the whole accident play out in front of them.  One other man was there and said he saw it the same way I was reporting it.  Scary how quickly those things can happen and we had Jacob in the backseat with us, too.  It was nice to see how the people in our community sprang into action.  You see those reports so often where no one wants to get involved.