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Cybercowboy
08-22-2015, 1:11pm
It was raining but supposed to stop soon so I went ahead and drove to the golf course to meet up with my golf buddies. Two cop cars passed me on I-44, and took the same exit I did to HW 249. I followed them about 5 miles and saw what they were going to, a wreck in the other side of the 4-lane highway. An ambulance was already on the scene, and a couple of other cops, and two pickup trucks that looked like they were probably the first on the scene and went to assist.

Silver Ford crew cab pickup on it's side, all I could see as I approached was the undercarriage. A body with a bloody sheet over it laying beside it. On this pass I didn't know what type of truck it was, or if it was even a truck. Raining very hard, couldn't see more than about 50 feet or so.

Sat in the parking lot at the golf course for half an hour. It just rained harder and harder and harder. We all decided to call it a day. On the trip back it was really raining about as hard as I've seen it, like crazy hard. Came on the scene, was surprised to see the cops there but not doing anything, the body still lying there, and the ambulance gone.

The truck had obviously flipped several times, it was a mess. Roof was pretty much caved in, all the glass broke out of course, just really messed up. This is a 70 MPH highway.

It was raining too hard for the cops to even work the scene. I guess there were some other injured passengers who went in the ambulance. Came home, decided to take my wife to brunch, and saw fire trucks, ambulances, cop cars, all over the place, going out to various wrecks. It was like a blinding 40 minute downpour, scary as shit on the highway, I pulled over twice because I couldn't see past the nose of my vehicle.

69camfrk
08-22-2015, 1:26pm
Dead dude did not see you....:yesnod:

VITE1
08-22-2015, 2:07pm
:sadangel:

SQUIRMIN VERMIN 84
08-22-2015, 7:56pm
Very sobering experience for you, to say the least.:sadangel:

Years ago I was driving just after sundown and a motorcyclist passed me like
I was standing still. He disappeared ahead as were in the foothills.

Twenty minutes later, I pulled into a small town and there in the first
intersection was my biker. He T-Boned a panel truck so hard that nearly
all the seams in his Levis and shirt had popped. Just panels of clothing
loosely wrapped around white bloody limbs and torso. I never saw where
his head wound up, it was just gone.

That was about 35 years ago and it stays with me yet....
I'm sure this incident you saw will be with you for awhile as well.

JRD77VET
08-22-2015, 8:00pm
Very sobering experience for you, to say the least.:sadangel:

Years ago ...................

:iagree: Certain images get etched into your mind and never leave :sadangel:

OddBall
08-22-2015, 8:05pm
Never take anything for granted. Many a life has been lost where a split second or two in either direction would have made all the difference.

Cybercowboy
08-23-2015, 11:54am
This is the only story I've seen so far. (http://www.newstalkkzrg.com/Fatal-Accident-on-Highway-249/21886707) Didn't realize he was northbound. He ended up in the left southbound lane. Sounds like he wasn't wearing his seat belt too.

island14
08-23-2015, 4:18pm
Dude you sure have seen a lot of death over the years...

I saw a leg in the middle of the road going by a crash years ago, and can never get that thought out of my mind.. my buddy saw the headless torso over by the guardrail.. and I always considered myself lucky to have not seen that..

Kerrmudgeon
08-23-2015, 6:00pm
So you couldn't actually SEE the body if it was covered by a sheet which is a good thing. Hard to believe people don't wear their seatbelts after all the info and stats on the safety of them. I feel naked now if I'm in a moving vehicle and not strapped in. Must be over 30 years now it's been the law around here. :seasix:

NCC-1701
08-23-2015, 7:51pm
Even sadder is notifying the next of kin..:sadangel:

Milton Fox
08-23-2015, 9:23pm
I still remember seeing a man laying on a bridge where he had been hit by a car nearly 50 years ago. I was maybe six or seven - no sheet. I wanted to know why he had peed his pants if he was dead? :sadangel:

onedef92
08-24-2015, 10:17am
I used to see them more times than I care to remember when I was a reporter.....