Had lunch at the Oakland Museum today with two co-workers.
As we exited through the ground floor parking area, folks were running around and acting startled. Out on the street, fire trucks and police cars and clusters of people along the sidewalks were looking at the center of the road where medics were tending to a person I could not see.
The museum takes up two city blocks....and in the middle of the block were the medics. Down at the end of the block toward me, my co-workers and I learned that a driver in a Honda Civic had been traveling at high speed the wrong way down the one-way street that extends 9 or 10 blocks.
According to a witness, someone had yelled out at the driver two blocks further down that he was going the wrong way. The driver sped up and hit two women in the crosswalk. One fell off to the side of his car, and the other travelled to mid-block where he swerved around her and sped off.
We haven't heard anything about their condition...but we stayed around long enough to listen to various witnesses tell news crews their horrific tale of what happened and how the victims fell, etc. Sadly, where one victim had fallen were her shoes, her purse, a pair of glasses and a scarf, blouse and skirt, which the medics cut off her before placing her in the ambulance.
I am grateful I did not see it happen...I'm much too upset about having seen the aftermath.
