An incident in Little Rock, Ark. with a Google Street View Car Wednesday night showed the dangers of making a U-turn.
Arkansas police reported that the vehicle was traveling in the wrong direction on a one-way street when it crashed into another car at 6 p.m., according to The Smoking Gun. The accident left significant damage to the Google car's front end, while 22-year-old driver Dylan Case said his car was "f***in' totaled."
The Google car was a 2010 Subaru Legacy driven by Alexander Spurr, a resident of Bryant, Ark., according to an accident report from the Little Rock Police Department. 28-year-old Spurr told police that he realized he was driving the wrong way on Tyler Street and tried to make a U-turn, but "accidently came out into" an adjacent road, where he hit Case's car "in the side and spun him around." Case told the cops that his light was green and that Spurr "must have ran the red light."
Spurr was seen trying to take the car's camera equipment apart after the accident, and was cited for "careless prohibited driving." An estimated $1,500 in damage was caused to the Google-owned car, while $2,000 in damage was caused to Case's car, USA Today reported.
Case also said after Spurr's vehicle "came out of nowhere" and hit him, Spurr "basically said he was sorry and that he was gonna lose his job."
Case was treated at a hospital emergency room after the accident, where he received a cat scan and X-rays. He said the crash gave him bruised ribs and whiplash, and was given a neck brace to wear, The Smoking Gun reported.
Case expects to miss at least three weeks of work, and plans to take legal action over the crash.
The Ark. crash is not the only one to involve a Street View car. Another driver of the Google-owned vehicle hit a bus last year, and then hit another bus and a truck while trying to leave the scene, USA Today reported. Spurr, on the other hand, stayed at the scene of the crash.
