I like to take videos while driving by accident scenes. I’m not into gore or blood & guts, early Andy Warol-style, but more the workaday fender benders that greatly affect the traffic of a region. There’s always so much interesting tension and display– a "scene"– that is worth capturing.
Yesterday we were going to a BBQ and fireworks out in the suburbs and there was a slowdown indicative of a fresh accident (police cars still arriving, clog-up just a 1/4-mile away, cars seen zooming with singular enthusiasm just past the scene). So I got out my camera.
The accident was a single truck that seems to have fishtailed. The trailer it was pulling got 1/2 – flipped. The cool thing was that I caught someone (the driver?) getting arrested (see here):