Local Accidents

This accident occured around 10:00pm Today (05/06/2011) on the intersection of Route 112 & Woodside Avenure, as you can see this picture is so fresh that the Cops & EMS & Fire Dept. havnt even arrived ( taken by me of coarse)  The liquid below the car is presumably coolant, the car on the side of the T-boned vehical is a black honda civic with tinted windows late 90's model.

   

  Since i moved to Bellport in the fall of 1997 there have been many local accidents, some of which were fatal. A trip down Woodside Avenue is riddled with crosses resembling something like what i can imagine, as my dad likes to refer to it, "the road to Baghdad."
   The Majority of the fatal accidents have occurred on the stretch on Route 101, North of Sunrise Highway and towards Woodside Avenue in the Bellport Area. I can recall at least five instances where a emergency helicopter had to land directly on Route 101 to lift people to Stony Brook University Hospital. There have also been instances, where i have personally seen, just a white sheet over the human remains after the accident had occurred. I also recall the time when about five or six or teenagers died in a fatal wreck, with alcohol and drugs being a factor, near the sewage treatment plant on Woodside Ave. where now, not even a dead flower stands where once was a huge memorial.
   There was an accident that was covered by Newsday about a motorcyclist and a U.P.S. truck where the man was killed on scene, i only know this because back then i had a police scanner where i "chased accidents" and a Newsday reporter/photographer asked if there was any way around the local streets to get closer to the accident scene which was blocked off by police squad cars and about four ambulances due to the graphic nature of the accident, i did not take any pictures back then becuase i did not think it was moral to do so. People forget events and other people, but a picture freezes that event in a timeless capsule which can be brought to the future or past in any one's life.

Accident on Route 101

   But now a new day has come, where the i have been educated through my journalism class, to not censor things that the public should be informed about. Also i believe by showing graphic pictures of accidents, people's awareness about driving hazards (locally) will be raised. The Town of Brookhaven has made changes over the years such as reduce the speed limit on Woodside Ave. and making it into one lane from two previous lanes. They should also do this to Route 101 because the Volume, even during the day, is equal if not less to that of Woodside Ave. at the same time.
   What i want to conclude with is this: the accidents locally are getting more frequent and even more deadly due to recklessness and ignorance to such occurrences, it is my job as a photographer to tell the story.

UPDATE:

I did not know this, but as i turned on News12 at 11:00pm Tonite, there had been a accident fatality locally near Target in Medford which is about half a mile away from Route 101, i cant tell the story better than the people covering it so i will post the link as follows:   Fatal Motorcycle Accident