Car Accident

Friday night we had some excitement in Shiso (for a change), but not the good kind. My friend Lee, another JET, was on his way to my house when he got in a car accident about two blocks away. Luckily he was fine, but his car was pretty banged up. I was surprised when I got there, because he sounded so casual on the phone, but it was a pretty bad crash, there was glass everywhere, and a metal post on the street corner was bent. The streets in my neighborhood are small, and there are no sidewalks, and lots of blind corners, and a woman ran a stop sign at a blind intersection and slammed into Lee's car. We had to call our supervisors at the Board of Education to come down and help, because we had no idea what to do, and don't understand much Japanese. Still, it could have been a lot worse. The woman hit Lee's car on the front right side, the driver's side, so the right headlight and the tire and the side of the hood were really messed up, but if she had hit him a few feet further back, she'd have hit the driver's side door. Pretty scary.