Somehow, last night my mind drifted back to one of the most silly crashes I ever saw.
1966,Cambridge Mass: A car, nosed in a slot at right angles to the curb, slowly backed out. Another car was driving, at a reasonable speed, down the street and saw the backing car ahead and braked, apparently causing something to fall off the back seat onto the floor. Driver turned to pick stuff (baby?) off floor, removing foot from brake with car continuing forward and driver facing aft. Driver of car backing out was watching as the other car slowly ran into his. Elapsed time from braking to crash was 15+ seconds. (Count them off as you visualize it.) I'm still kicking myself for not stopping, as a witness, and to actually meet these fools.Runner-up was the driver who put front fender under the side of a flatbed trailer on a roundabout in England, not realizing that the truck driver couldn't see her in mirror or directly and the fender would be crunched when the truck moved. This time I left my card.
Any better ones?