The only thing I know about this photo is that it was taken somewhere in Los Angeles in 1915. But you have to laugh—these two cars had the entire intersection to themselves and they STILL managed to get into a tangle. Was that third car making its getaway also involved? Was this the first documented incidence of road rage in LA?
** UPDATE**
Historic Los Angeles on Facebook says: “That is the intersection of Sixth Street and Loma Drive. The stone gate in the foreground led to—or perhaps, by the time the picture was taken, formerly led to—the I. N. Van Nuys house, which in 1915 was moved to, and remains in, Windsor Square.”
Typical Los Angeles driver 🙂 I say that as a local Angeleno who sees this every day 108 years later. Note the driver on the right is in the middle of the road, cutting off the oncoming driver and “chopping” the lane of anyone making a right hand turn onto the street they are coming from. It appears they thankfully didn’t do any damage (or much) as the fender of the car to the left appears intact, the wheels appear to be perpendicular to the ground and there are no signs of water or steam. Hopefully everybody involved was mild-tempered and had a laugh.
I kinda suspect, given the lack of damage, the scene was staged. Maybe for a gag, maybe for a driver safety PSA. 🙂