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There's a traffic light between my apartment and WashU that was broken this morning. I guess the computer that controls it crashed. But it was stuck with eastbound traffic having a green ball and a yellow left-turn arrow. All other traffic had a red light. When I approached the intersection for the first time, the people with red were cautiously moving through as if it were a stop sign, but being careful to avoid the east-bound traffic as they didn't know the light was malfunctioning and were consequently driving through at a high rate of speed.

Anyway, I first went through it around noon. As I went through I wondered if it would still be broken when I came back through.

Well, an hour later, it was still very broken. And now there was a huge accident, most likely with injuries. I was tempted to stop and help, but lacking any medical knowledge I didn't think I would be very useful. If I had a cell phone I would have called the cops, but I figured one of the 20 people already helping out had done that. This big accident bothers me a bit, because it could have been easily prevented if someone, myself included, had called the police and notified them that the light was malfunctioning.

In other news, I followed a Ferrari Testarosa to school today. I think my Echo is faster.

Posted by on 6 September 2002 at 1:46 PM