Non-fatal Attraction --- Then and Now

History repeats itself, or so the saying goes. I don't really believe that; I think people just keep making the same, stupid mistakes. Like going to a saint's day festival, getting drunk, then trying to negotiate the curve in front of our house at 60 or 70 mph at 5:30 a.m. It happened in June of 2003, on the Feast of St. Peter's. At 5:45 we were awakened by a crash and awoke to find our green Opel on its side and totalled. I wrote about it here and posted these pictures last June on the 4th anniversary of the event.




This weekend is the St. Amaro Feast, and this morning it was 5:30. Same sort of thud, but our Opel is red, and it wasn't totaled. The difference: we had built a pillar at the corner of the driveway, which kept the speeding vehicle from plowing directly into our car. At the speed he was going, the shock would have totaled the red car and possibly the gray one parked beside it (just barely visible in lower left corner of the first photo). As it is, the pillar fell over and dented the back door, but otherwise, the car is OK. The pillar will have to be replaced, as well as the wall (again).

This is at least the 6th accident we've been the victims of on this curve in the 30 years we've lived here. Three of those times, our cars have been hit. Fortunately, whatever attraction there is has been non-fatal, so far.