It's murder at the disco

I was late into work today, there was a rather severe traffic accident which caused traffic problems until about midday.

According to the police, the driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
What I saw, was a car that hit a power pole so hard, that the pole threatened to fall and block a 3 lane expressway. I'm not normally a rubbernecker, but I was curious when I saw that there was a giant crane on site. So I snapped a pic, I'll post it later. But basically, you could nearly read the front number plate, through the boot of the car. That someone can come away from that with "minor" injuries tells me they were very lucky.

What suprises me more, is that the accident was at 2am that night. There's not much traffic around at that time. That this is the first accident I've seen, also suprises me, given that at least half of the morning traffic is asleep, and the others half is wired and suffering from a road rage addiction. Yet somehow, people still manage to safely get to work.