The driver and passenger fled on foot last night after running their car into a bus stop in the 1100 block of Montello Avenue.
Sorry for the quality of the pictures on this one, but you get the idea.
Here's a small version of a very shaky (you don't want to see a larger version) shot of the car:
And not so blurry, but way too dark:
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Does everyone see how that bus sign was right in that man's path? I think he should sue the district. They will pony up -- not admitting fault of course.
That's interesting. I heard a car spin its wheels and accelerate quickly away last night and was wondering where the gunshots were to accompany it (didn't hear any). I wonder if this was that car.
wow.
i can't believe that the bus stop sign actually stopped a car in motion.
forget those big concrete barricades around dc.
let's put up bus stop signs.
so, was this car stolen or just filled with contraband? i can't imagine why a regular joe would run from the scene of this. maybe they didn't have insurance or a license and worried about getting arrested? weird.
Unbelievable! Reminds me of the police chase gone bad that resulted in a three car accident at the intersection of 5th & H last Friday. One car was lodged in the side of the bldg formerly the Reading Lounge. They had to take the top off the car to get the driver out. Luckily there were no fatalities. Similarly, the occupants of the car the police was chasing also fled on foot.
I think it was a stolen car.
It looooks better than the one that drove thru my yard destoying everything at 13th & Florida a month ago hitting 6 cars and airbouring on the other side of the street at 13th I upside down in a van. Go figure. And the driver had a rental car ($25 a day) with no insurance.
Mad About Insurance.
just saw this (washingtonpost.com) and thought you might enjoy it since it's also a fundraiser
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Nightlife Agenda
By Fritz Hahn, Rhome Anderson and David Malitz
washingtonpost.com Staff Writers
Thursday, April 19, 2007; 12:00 AM
The tightly intertwined relationship between fashion and popular music is a subject more suited for masters' dissertations and impenetrable sociological tomes than our pithy column, but there's no better way to experience the two than the STYLEistics events at the Rock and Roll Hotel. Local clothing and jewelry designers display their wares in fashion shows and sell them to the public, celebrity DJs rock the house and the crowd soaks in the atmosphere as well as cheap drinks. Tonight's edition features music by JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre, 11 D.C.-based designers (read more about them on the Web site of promoters Brightest Young Things), free drinks, clothing giveaways and a whole lot more. Doors open at 7, and admission is free until the DJs start at 9. (Sparks and all rail cocktails are half-price until 10, too.) Ten percent of the proceeds go the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
I wonder if alchohol was involved, anytime somebody runs away like that, they are often hiding something. http://districtmatters.com
Looks to me like the car sideswiped a parked car (visible on sidewalk in photo #1; note big dent in LF fender) and then came to rest on the sign pole. The pole sure didn't do that damage to the white car's RF bumper.
It does appear to be a sideswipe. Car theives are such lousy drivers.
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