As you’ll see, not all poor parking jobs are created equal. At first glance, this doesn’t look terrible, just slightly spatially challenged. Being a foot or so away from the curb could happen to anyone.
Anyone, that is, who drives for about eight-tenths of a mile on an injured tire and then rim.
From the looks of it, the vehicle obtained damage well beyond the misfortune of tire trouble. The fender looks sad and the fender flare has gone missing. The windshield has some spiderwebbing on the same side as the absent tire.
Judging from the bright orange message plastered to the windshield, the Hartford Police Department has taken notice of this seemingly abandoned vehicle on Putnam Street.
Some of the SUV remained in apparently decent condition, presenting the question of what happened to the rest of it.
If you look closely, you can see a mark on the street in line with the rear right tire and obviously created by the front right rim. Where does the line lead?
On Capitol Avenue, a scrap of tire can be seen next to the mark on the road.
The line can be seen in the far right lane, a space where cars are usually parked during business hours.
Just around the space where the marking goes from a straight line to something more like a stagger, a huge chunk of former-tire can be seen on the sidewalk along Capitol Avenue.
On the sidewalk near Capitol Avenue and Flower Street, a vehicle’s missing decorative trim is found.
For a moment we wonder if the driver tried to plow through the barricades on Flower Street, but the rim mark does not go down that street. We continue on to see that it is on Broad Street.
When we get to the intersection with Farmington, the pavement is so rough that it takes a moment to pick back up on where this goes. Luckily, the crosswalk signal takes awhile and we have time to pick up the line as it made its way along Cogswell Street.
On Garden Street, just south of Collins Street, we see that the line on the pavement suddenly fades. There are no tell-tale piles of debris, but we take one more quick glance.
A scuffed utility pole and the granite curb quietly show their dominance in the most recent SUV vs. inanimate object showdown.
lobonick
excellent investigation..
Brendan
I hope that broken windshield isn’t from someone’s head.
Tony C
Windshield is probably from the passenger’s head.
Ask me sometime about the drunk that clobbered the median then drove all the way down Park. I real time followed the trail of fail.
Kerri Provost
One wonders why this vehicle decided to end up here instead of at Hartford Hospital or St. Francis, then.