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Hectic three car crash

Posted Jun 23, 2011 at 9:16 am by
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Gnarly car crash at 19th and Valencia.

At 19th and Valencia. Captured here by DocPop.

SF Appeal says only minor injuries. (whew!)

Second pic sent in by tipster Ben, who writes “The other car involved, a hybrid honda civic, came out relatively unscathed. Yet another tragic story of when hybrid drag racing goes wrong.”

16 comments

16 Responses to “Hectic three car crash”

  1. Barbara Graber says:
    June 23, 2011 at 9:36 am

    That looks terrible, glad no one was badly injured. This answers my hovering helicopter question.

  2. Justin says:
    June 23, 2011 at 10:08 am

    Rode by this morning. Pretty crazy. Didn’t see the other car though.

  3. why says:
    June 23, 2011 at 10:23 am

    Ryan Dunn had a lot of fans

  4. Dave says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:13 am

    fucking Prius drivers.

  5. Ryan says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

    Struggling to understand how an accident of that magnitude could occur in that location.

  6. Jay says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

    Wow! How do you even have a crash of that magnitude on Valencia?

    • Sameer Bhansaki says:
      June 23, 2011 at 12:38 pm

      Larger minivan. Running a red light. 715am, empty street, speeding like s/he doesn’t give a damn. Pretty easy to knock another car over under those circumstances.

  7. JJ san says:
    June 23, 2011 at 11:51 am

    Did that roof come off from the Jaws of Life, or from the crash?

    • Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable says:
      June 23, 2011 at 12:13 pm

      I’m betting jaws of life. Too clean a removal otherwise.

      • Sameer Bhansaki says:
        June 23, 2011 at 12:36 pm

        Saw it this morning — it was the jaws of life. Weird angle for this car, though. The minivan that hit this car was stopped facing north on valencia (with a crushed frontend, of course), but the car that’s turned over looks like it was hit by a car going south.

  8. Eliot Van Buskirk says:
    June 23, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    FAKE. everyone knows hybrids explode into a massive fireball when they crash.

    • Steve says:
      June 23, 2011 at 4:09 pm

      And rescue crews can’t approach them because they’ll get electrocuted. I read it on freerepublic.com, so it’s pretty reliable.

  9. Brian says:
    June 23, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    I heard this one, not really brakes just the crunch. This was around the time sun shines down 19th, so the van driver may have not seen the red.

    That’s the second time I’ve heard a crash at the light in the past year. Last time someone ran right through the red on Valencia.

    • SFdoggy says:
      June 26, 2011 at 10:56 am

      You are probably right about the cause, but if the van driver couldn’t see whether the light was red or green, they should have stopped.

  10. PL says:
    June 24, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    UGH did someone really use a hipster filter on the photo of a serious accident? STOP THINKING EVERYTHING IS ART!