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Our bicycle hobo friend tipped us off to the Livejournal coverage of today's crash at 1st and Seneca. Somehow a driver managed to drive his car through the railing and over the cliff down to Post Alley 30 something feet below without killing himself or anyone else. We tried to take some dramatic action shots but the police have it all cordoned off. For better shots taken earlier by presumably the previously linked Livejournal blogger person see here and here.
We can't really figure out the logistics of this crash, but our personal theory that seems the most credible is the driver must have been going west on Seneca and lost control and smashed through the railing. On the other hand maybe he was going north on 1st, thought he could turn left on to the 99 ramp, realized that he couldn't, got pissed off and depressed about it and decided to just end it all.
Who knows? We're just glad it didnt happen to us. That's one hell of a drop.
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That's actually what happened. He was coming down Seneca and had no brakes. To avoid hitting exiting Viaduct traffic head on, he swerved and went through the railing. Lucky bastard walked away from the car onto the stretcher. More images here: http://wesaturtle.net/blog/?p=699
It was so loud when he hit the dumpster. We couldn't get to him at first because the car was spewing gasoline. Also, the dumpster that he landed on had been moved into that position just a short while before it happened.