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Google Maps captures an accident

alek [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, January 5, 2008
16 years ago17,845 views

Forgot exactly where I saw this mentioned, but not something you see every day on Google Maps – Street View. Looks like there was an accident – car versus big tree – the later appears to have won – D'OH! ;-)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&q=1272+17th+Ave+N,+Minneapolis,+Hennepin,+Minnesota+55411,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.589577,73.476563&ie=UTF8&cd=3&geocode=0,44.996325,-93.296752&ll=44.997332,-93.29629&spn=0.001995,0.004485&z=18&om=1&layer=c&cbll=44.99631,-93.29663&cbp=1,617.5396966558192,,0,-4.910094913617477

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

You probably saw it here: http://jalopnik.com/339821/google-street-view-captures-car-accident (it was on Digg)

I almost did that today, the road was a bit icy... lol :p

alek [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Yea, that was it – thanks. Had a buncha windows open and doing some other stuff ... and then Firefox crashed ... so lost track of the browser history.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

There are a lot of (car) accident in Google Maps' street views. Really.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=33.231475,-117.324518&cbp=1,566.6705342167847,0.5470835014196939,1,5.420200688170827&hl=en&ll=33.238831,-117.326818&spn=0.015147,0.054245&z=15&om=1
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&cbll=33.48382,-112.06506&cbp=1,163.4426945326581,0.5,0,2.8973863700275095&ll=33.512345,-112.062778&spn=0.062116,0.094242&z=13
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=19th+Ave.+%26+Indian+School+Phoenix,+AZ&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=29.440076,82.265625&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&cbll=33.495023,-112.099789&cbp=1,612.7344639056201,0.5,1,11.059597749094623&ll=33.496949,-112.099664&spn=0.00374,0.007296&z=17
etc...

alek [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Holy-Moley those are some good fender-benders – thanks for the interesting links TOMHTML.

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