Bizzare Accident On Yonge Street in Richmond Hill

According to bystanders, a white car was travelling northbound on Yonge Street (at Arnold Crescent, north of Major Mackenzie) this morning at 7:30am, but for some unknown reasons, slammed and levelled a lamppost, a tree, and then spinned and tilted 90 degrees - sitting on its side and almost crashed into a barber shop.

From looking at the the situation of the accident scene and the photos I took, the car must have been travelling at a very high speed. However, on a weekday morning and virtually at rush hour, how could a car have been travelling at such a high speed? Well, I guess only the driver and the cop who questioned him/her could tell.

A few months ago I heard in the radio that from the automobile industry they are (or have already done so) developing a "black box" for cars. This automobile version of the "flight recorder" will record all the statistics such as speed of the car and the direction it is travelling within the last 5 seconds before the accident happens. The device is called VER (Vehicular Event Recorder) or something like that.

So if available, the VER will be able to tell what really happened this morning.

Nevertheless, there are opponents in everything. VER is no exception. But then again, it's all about privacy issues.