Friday Funny: California Intersection Site of 'Wicked' Accidents

The Onion reports on how an 'insane' California intersection is the most likely site of 'awesome' car crashes.

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October 20, 2006, 2:00 PM PDT

"The California Department Of Transportation (Caltrans) released a study Monday that focused on a problematic intersection in Livermore, CA estimated to be nine times more likely to have extremely cool, awesome, or just plain unbelievable accidents than anywhere else in the state.

In the past two years alone, Metz has been called to the scene of 27 accidents, 22 of which were bad as hell, at the intersection at east-west-running McKinley Boulevard and north-south-bound Grove Street where the two roads converge with a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway crossing and Ash St., which cuts diagonally across all three.

The study also revealed that McKinley and Grove traffic-control camera footage is three times as likely to show up on YouTube, where it is commonly accompanied by nü-metal music and given five-star ratings by viewers."

FULL STORY: DOT: Dangerous Intersection Causing Some Pretty Cool Accidents

Friday, October 13, 2006 in The Onion

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