Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
It seems the Street View camera car has a habit of coming across expensive car accidents, and today we see that a white Mercedes E-Class has, rather inexplicably, managed to drive into a tree on a quiet, straight road in Minneapolis.
Judging by the bumper damage, I’m reckoning it wasn’t just a handbrake left off or a mistake whilst parking. Thankfully, the driver appears to be unhurt, and looks like she is being assisted by a friendly neighbour!
Thanks: Jalopnik.com
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If you go way south we can see some streetview driver went on a dirt road!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=1282+17th+Ave+N+minneapolis&sll=45.001042,-93.296242&sspn=0.007465,0.017338&layer=c&ie=UTF8&om=0&cbll=44.46132,-93.425114&cbp=1,97.46743086790721,,0,19.758842443729932&ll=44.487811,-93.433228&spn=0.077519,0.160675&z=13
It is pretty difficult to get injured in a Mercedes E at speeds that are at least near the legal limits for city traffic. You would really have to plan ahaed.
An unapplied handbrake is also unlikely as a cause of this mishap for the simple reason that the road in question is as flat as a tabletop
One strange thing about the situation is the way the women are standing around the opened trunk. What’s the point in opening the trunk that way right after a crash?
A small correction - judging by the map, it looks as if this crash is not in the Minneapolis suburbs, but within the city limits. And in the low-rent part of town, for that matter.
“drive into a tree on a quiet, straight road in the Minneapolis suburbs.”
Yeah, in North Minneapolis.
Who saw this coming?
Well … one reason for opening the trunk like that would be to get at the first aid kit.
Cheers Peter! I’ve corrected it.
There are several more accidents here.
‘…Now I ain’t gonna axe who smashed the E-Class….”
Ma$e
Nice one XF #1 — did anyone else notice the nice big ding in the trunk of the googlemobile?