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Photo via JCN's flickr
Photograph by Matt Lubchansky
No word on the extent of damages to what looks like a Gap store.
Update: Jaya Harrover Saxena was at the scene after the crash and tells us a firefighter told her, "I wasn't there when it happened, but the cabs crashed into each other and went into the construction." She adds that cabs were a regular cab and a Jeep cab—the regular seemed crushed—and that it did look like the scaffolding damaged the store.
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Video of aftermath: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2tMoV1wZ94
Good thing this happened tonight! I walked under there yesterday.
When I first read this, I thought that the construction of the scaffolding was weak for it to colapse. Yes, getting hit by a couple of cars will make it come down. Glad to read no one was seriously hurt!
Non-life-threatening injuries can be series injuries.
D'OH! Guess what's on my mind.
Accidents happen - glad no-one had life threatening injuries. I'm for taking down the scaffolding that stands all over the city. Very little is being used actively. And as we can now see - its multiplies the danger.
A lot of the scaffold bridges are to protect the people in the street from loose material, no matter how small, that may fall from older buildings as well as just for protection from construction debris.
The headline seems to imply that it was the scaffolding that fell and damaged the taxis, when it was simply another case of reckless driving.
At least this time it was steel poles and planks of wood, not more human bodies.
Have these two been charged with anything?