And I'm not talking about the aftermath or a video recording of a car accident (or accidents), but one that you directly saw in front of your eyes in real time. The reason why I am asking this is because earlier today I saw a head on crash occur about 10-15 feet away from me, while I was driving in West Palm Beach, Florida. Here's what happened, I was driving on a 4 lane road with 2 lanes going in the opposite direction and in the middle was a center turn lane. As I was driving along, I noticed to my left a light blue 1996-1997 Toyota Corolla in the center turn lane, getting ready to turn left into a parking lot which would mean the driver would have to cut across the 2 lanes going in the opposite direction to reach the lot. For some reason, I kept an eye on the Corolla as he was turning, and he unwisely pulled out in front of an oncoming white 1999-2006 Chevrolet pickup. My heart jumped when I knew what was going to happen and in no time, they crashed head on as I saw glass flying and the front of the Toyota being smashed like an aluminium can. The crash almost sounded like an explosion. I couldn't help but gasp in horror when I saw it happen. I was so shocked on what just occurred, I just kept driving forward. As I looked at the aftermath of the crash on my rear view mirrors, I contemplated whether I should stop and see if everyone was okay, but there was too much traffic behind me and not to mention I noticed several pedestrians and other drivers were already checking on the accident, so I continued to drive away from the scene as I was still trying to comprehend on what I had just witnessed. Later I heard there were no serious injuries.

Even though I lived in the Middle East for 18 years where driving is more chaotic (and I know car accidents happen all the time around the world), I have rarely seen a bad car accident occur on the scene, especially seeing one directly in front of me.

I hastily made a very crude diagram to illustrate how the accident occurred: