04-20-2024, 10:55 AM
After 2 days of freezing my credit and changing passwords on multitudes of accounts, retracing my steps and calling shops, I got a call back today from a pastry shop in Capitola where I had bought a gift certificate for my son for his birthday. Someone found it in the parking lot and happened to drop it off in his shop, not one of the many other shops that surround the parking lot...whew!!
Funny side note: when I went there on Thurs, I was on a concall for work. I sat in the parking lot to listen to the rest of the call, while coordinating meeting up with my son. Traffic in the Cruz is abysmal, so I wasn't going to move unless I had to.
We got coordinated and the call ended, so I pulled out into stop and go traffic. I moved up about a car length and heard an awful pop/crunch. I looked in my rear view mirror and caught a huge pickup coming back to the ground after t-boning the minivan that was behind me.
Everybody that was in their cars around me just got out and left their cars in the road. I had no place to pull over, but from the swarm of people, I presumed there were already too many cooks in the kitchen.
I did see the driver of the minivan get the door open, climb out from under the airbag and walk to the front of the car to assess the damage (really bad, the front left tire was horizontal). She seemed OK (shock probably setting in). I saw a woman come up and hold her hands (kind of a "I don't know you hug gesture". She went back to her car and got her cell phone, most of the bystanders were also on their phones. I didn't see what happened to the truck. It passed out of my field of view.
Super close call. I feel guilty for not stopping.
I'm told there's someone asking for witnesses on Nextdoor. I'm going to try to find that post and offer help.
--tg
Funny side note: when I went there on Thurs, I was on a concall for work. I sat in the parking lot to listen to the rest of the call, while coordinating meeting up with my son. Traffic in the Cruz is abysmal, so I wasn't going to move unless I had to.
We got coordinated and the call ended, so I pulled out into stop and go traffic. I moved up about a car length and heard an awful pop/crunch. I looked in my rear view mirror and caught a huge pickup coming back to the ground after t-boning the minivan that was behind me.
Everybody that was in their cars around me just got out and left their cars in the road. I had no place to pull over, but from the swarm of people, I presumed there were already too many cooks in the kitchen.
I did see the driver of the minivan get the door open, climb out from under the airbag and walk to the front of the car to assess the damage (really bad, the front left tire was horizontal). She seemed OK (shock probably setting in). I saw a woman come up and hold her hands (kind of a "I don't know you hug gesture". She went back to her car and got her cell phone, most of the bystanders were also on their phones. I didn't see what happened to the truck. It passed out of my field of view.
Super close call. I feel guilty for not stopping.
I'm told there's someone asking for witnesses on Nextdoor. I'm going to try to find that post and offer help.
--tg