I think about this one from time to time.
The exact moment had to be thirty or forty years ago.
The Hazard Center was being built on Friars road, right off the 163, at the site of the old Hazard plant.
I was driving south on the freeway when I saw from the corner of my eye that a crane had fallen.
Not a little crane, this was a giant one that towered eight or ten stories in the air.
It fell basically parallel to the building.
But when it landed it fell squarely on the bed of a small Datsun or Toyota pickup truck.
Never touched the cab, it grabbed the car out of its flight on the road as deftly and cleanly as a cat traps a mouse's tail in its paw.
But left the front compartment untouched. Amazing.
I never got any more information about the crane collapse and it left me with a lifelong sense of wonder.
If a twenty or fifty ton object was to stop you in midflight like that is there any way you survive? Was the driver's spinal cord and disks forever damaged from the shock? Or could they have miraculously walked away?
I guess I will never know.
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