A Collision Most Inhospitable

A Collision Most Inhospitable

The Clark County Coroner’s Office has since affixed names to the departed, identifying them as Angel Estrada-Esquibia, aged 30, and Jose Rodriguez Estrada, aged 70. The precise particulars of their untimely exit remain under deliberation, but one can hazard a guess that velocity and physics played no small role.

The calamity commenced at precisely 10:12 ante meridiem, or thereabouts, when the Infiniti, making westward haste, surrendered itself to the forces of chaos, forsook its rightful lane, and plunged headlong into an approaching Republic Services garbage truck—an encounter as one-sided as a duel between a thunderbolt and a corn stalk. As if to punctuate the disaster, the impact summoned flames, reducing both vehicles to a smoldering testament of mechanized miscalculation.

A surveillance device, ever the impartial chronicler of tragedy, captured the garbage truck’s driver making a valiant yet doomed attempt to quell the blaze with an extinguisher—an effort akin to pacifying a cyclone with a hand fan. The two occupants of the Infiniti, their fates sealed upon impact, were declared beyond the reach of earthly remedy.

Authorities, in their infinite wisdom, suspect that speed contributed to this catastrophe, though whether the specter of intoxication had a hand in events remains to be seen. The coroner’s office will conduct its examinations, but remember, when man wagers against the laws of motion, the house always wins.