[URBAN NOTE] Hit and run

[rfmcdonald]

It was a minor accident that I saw Monday morning, a burgundy-coloured compact leaving the parking lot of the grocery store just north of the intersection of Queen Street West and Dufferin too quickly, colliding with a glazier's truck with an alarming crash, and then turning and accelerating away, down Dufferin and onto Queen West, before I could do more than confirm that there were digits on its license plate. What impressed me most about it is that it just happened so quickly--five, ten seconds. The brevity of time seemed then and still seems disproportionate to the amount of hassle that this doubtless caused for both parties.