A Google Street View vehicle crashed into a local man’s car on Cantrell Road in Little Rock around 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The Street View car was allegedly traveling the wrong way on a one-way street, then U-turned and attempted to merge onto Cantrell Road, when it side-swiped another vehicle.
The driver of the Street View car declined to comment about the wreck or even identify himself. I’m sure he was too embarrassed.
The driver of the other vehicle, Dylan Case, 22, said he was shaken up after the crash and accused the driver of Street View car of running red light while trying to merge on to Cantrell Road.
“I was just coming down Cantrell, in the far right lane, and the guy just blew right through the stop light and hit me,” Case said Thursday. “I spun around into the middle of the road, and I always hold the emergency brake when I’m riding and I had to pull the emergency brake or another truck would have hit me head on.”
Editors Note: It is never wise to operate your vehicle while holding on to the emergency brake. A sudden application of the brake when traveling at a decent rate of speed can cause your vehicle to spin out and possibly make the situation even more dangerous.
Case said he later went to the emergency room for purported neck and back pain and bruised ribs.
Following in the incident, Case went as far as saying “Something better come out of Google’s pocket for this,” as he felt that the company was being negligent towards the issue.
This is not the first time a Street View car has crashed while documenting streets. In September, a single Street View car was involved in three separate accidents in Indonesia after the driver repeatedly fled the scenes of accidents, ZDNet reported.
Google could not be reached for comment.