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i lived half a block away, this was years and years ago, in the 80s, we hear this thunderously loud screech and crash, run out the front and see the smoke dust still settling at the corner.

this is a mellow residential street before portland got all stop sign happy, so it was unregulated, one car was zooming down the small hill of 24th while another was zipping up wasco to the west, they hit, and one car got pushed up the curb and smacked sideways into the telephone pole. the car was bent nearly into a croissant shape, all the glass gone, and the amazing part, the two curbside wheels had simply folded flat when they hit the curb.

i don't recall, but i think nobody was hurt (no ambulances at least), the idea of the force that reshaped that car has stuck with me ever since.

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car crash , wasco , morphology