Unfortunately, adaptive cruise control can only accelerate or decelerate at up to 15% of current velocity. Better luck next time.

She was clearly aiming for the squirrel.

According to Jezebel commenters, women drivers are AWESOME and how dare you suggest otherwise.

She took a sudden, extreme disliking to the tree?

Nope,she was reaching for her Pimp juice.

Not that anybody really cares, but when I was an insurance adjuster I NEVER used the word 'accident' to describe a crash or a collision.
The word 'accident' implies that no one caused the loss, it "just happened by accident."
Car crashes are always caused by something.
Someone is always at fault.
The cause is almost always a boneheaded driver.
The whole world is out of step....

@biminitwst:

According to Officer Nick Angel, it is indeed a "Traffic Collision"

Goddamn trees. When's somebody going to do something about those things?

Hey u can see my house from here!

@ash78:
"Uh Bart, don't you need to steer?"
"Nope, I have cruise control!"

@biminitwst: Operator headspace and timing is a major factor, as is an overlubricated nut behind the wheel.

An unmarked white Caprice lurks ominously in the background. I have a Pavlovian fight or flight response to those things.

She suddenly noticed a huge snowman on her Google-GPS map and tried to steer around it...

@jnostalgics: I don't, since they haven't been cop cars since I got my license.

Crown Vics, however, scare the shit out of me. *downshift*

also, if you check out that link, it is a woman. Two actually. And that caprice is not police issue, if you back up down the street for a better view. Awesome.

I'm betting there was a cell phone and some mascara involved.

The size of the houses in the neighborhood make it seem unlikely that the Benz is ordinary here. The fact that there is what appears to be a cop car in the background, and the fact that this car has it's trunk open, make me suspect a police chase, ending in a minor collision, with the narcotics discovered in back. The color of the Benz being white, I am going to assume this is a 'hood coke-mobile. Until proven otherwise.

If she had an armored Maybach the accident would have bbrought way less consecuences.

@POwer: Well played sir, hats off to you.

@doctornine

You probably hit the nail on the head....that part of North Minneapolis has been cocaine/crack-ridden (with related violence up to and including drive-by shootings) for the better part of two decades now.

BTW...does Google Street View show the "Mary Tyler Moore House" on Kenwood Parkway?

Looks like the hooker in the trunk wasn't quite dead.

The kicking distracted the driver, and the impact knocked the trunk loose.

I'm scanning the nearby streets for fishnets and heels, but no luck so far.

And for my next trick, I shall turn a Mercedes-Benz into a tree.

An...Viola

@biminitwst: Not an "accident"? Someone's been watching Hot Fuzz.

It is 2 ladies!!!! Go to 1290 17th ave N. amd u cam see them in the trunk taking some sort of a white bag and it seems like the white lady is yelling at conchita her maid

u can see them in the trunk taking some sort of a white bag and it seems like the white lady is yelling at conchita her maid for forgetting her lucky underwear in the laundry place

Dang... that IS a big white plastic bag.

@Mr_Sives_Remotoc: A well heeled local coke snarfler probably can do an E320, but the ones with enough bread and taste to go for the Maybach aren't gonna be crashing into trees in this PARTICULAR neighborhood.

Kewl
My sis lives in Portland,OR. When I pulled up a Google Street vies of her neighborhood, her car is in one shot, take one step foward and it is gone.

Maybe she went to work...

And Minneapolis has had street view for how long? Like, two days?

let the wheel straighten after the turn...else..

Are you serious? You've never seen a Mercedes plowed into a stationary object in broad daylight? It's pretty much the norm around here...

Who had the nerve to plant a tree at the side of the road while I was trying to drive, consult my stock broker on my blackberry, read the paper, and drink my caffe latte in this nice residential neighborhood! Kids these days, damn tree huggers planting these effing oak's all over the place...

GPS: TURN RIGHT NOW!
Lady: OK!

Either that or she was ghost riding the whip...

What surprises me is how she went up and over that curb before hitting it. That would have had to slow her down a good bit before impact, probably ruined some front end stuff up something fierce.

@doctornine

I'm 99% sure MPD doesn't have a single Caprice. It's all Vickie's with a handful of unmarked Taurus' and Tahoe's.

"Officer, the tree jumped out from behind that...tree...house...and bit my car!"

I'm with the crowd here and am searching for tahoe who woke up and kicked her way out o de trunk and took it on the hoof. Tech FTW!

I want to see the front bumper on that Google mobile...

Actually the real driver is collapsed on the seat, the two ladies are committing robbery...

Obviously she couldn't see the forest through her knees.