Caution: yellow lights

On Friday I got to Philly before Steve got home from work, so I was just hanging out, looking at news on the internet, etc. Around 5:00 there was a loud screech outside, crushing metal and car horns, so naturally I went out on the balcony to see what happened. At first all I saw was a blue car sitting crooked in the intersection. Then, I saw a black car IN THE FRONT YARD of Steve's apartment complex, and it had CRASHED THROUGH THE IRON FENCE to get there. :-O Here's what we think happened: the two cars were coming from opposite directions. The black car was in the right lane and floored it to get through a yellow light. The blue car, seeing that the cars in the opposing left lane had stopped, thought it was OK to turn left across that lane of traffic, but couldn't see the black car coming from behind them. Then the black car came out of nowhere and they collided, sending the blue car back into the middle of the intersection and sending the black car into the yard of Steve's apartment complex (which is on the corner of these two streets). We figure that the black car must have been going really fast for it to have bumped the blue car back into the middle of the intersection, then crashed through an iron fence, and still had the momentum to go decently far into the yard of the apartment complex. The speed limit is 35mph, but we figure the person was going at least 45mph. Police cars and an ambulance were here within minutes, but the drivers of the cars were up walking around so they probably weren't seriously injured. I'm glad that there weren't pedestrians standing on the corner at that moment, because they surely would have been dead, after being crashed into by the black car going 45+mph! :-O

Lesson learned: be careful when going through yellow lights.