uuughhhh.....saw the aftermath of something horrible

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-10-22 08:45am

My wife and I were with my parents, we were taking my mother out for a birthday dinner when we saw something absolutely horriffic. It was a head on collision on a busy four-lane main road. The rescue personell had just arrived and they were tending to the people in the cars and the police were directing traffic away, but what we saw..... The accident was between a Ford Bronco and a brand new Mercury Grand Marquis. Both cars were utterly destroyed and the passenger in the Grand Marquis was very obviously dead. These cars must have hit at high speed because it would take a hell of a lot of force to completely demolish a 2 ton grand marquis and a huge ford bronco. Do you want to know what caused it? The guy in the Bronco took his eyes off the road and swerved across the double yellow line.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-10-22 08:54am

But...didn't you yourself have to take your eyes off the road to get a good look at the accident? (Just a thought, NO FLAMING!) That is terrible, though. and I know the grand marquis drivers had to be elderly too, (Sticking with stereotype on this)...I hope there were no children involved...

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-10-22 08:59am

Chardok wrote:But...didn't you yourself have to take your eyes off the road to get a good look at the accident? (Just a thought, NO FLAMING!) That is terrible, though. and I know the grand marquis drivers had to be elderly too, (Sticking with stereotype on this)...I hope there were no children involved...

i wasn't driving smartass. and no, there were no children that i could see. an older couple in the Grand Marquis.....the news 11 o'clock news said the woman (passenger) was 65.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-10-22 09:03am

That's so nasty. Are you OK with it all?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-10-22 09:04am

That was my next question...seeing a dead body can' be easy...how're YOU doing with it?

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-10-22 09:16am

the paramedics were covering the woman pretty well, but you could tell there was a person there.....and there was blood..... and the car was so incredibly twisted. Amazingy the driver lived....the speed limit is 45 miles per hour and both vehicles were most likely traveling at that speed....i'm suprised the fuel lines didn't ignite with an impact like that.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-10-22 10:54am

Ugh, one of my best friends found out her cousin was killed in a car crash this weekend. Apparently he and his friends, in a small Honda Civic thought they could quickly make a U-turn and outrace an oncoming truck. He and his friends were killed around 4am.. around 3pm they were still trying to remove the bodies.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-10-22 09:48pm

Trytostaydead wrote:Ugh, one of my best friends found out her cousin was killed in a car crash this weekend. Apparently he and his friends, in a small Honda Civic thought they could quickly make a U-turn and outrace an oncoming truck. He and his friends were killed around 4am.. around 3pm they were still trying to remove the bodies.

On the thread start: That has got to have sucked seeing that, I've had the misfortune of seeing covered bodies in a car on the side of the road before. For me it was a rear-end accident on I-5, the car that got hit was a Taurus wagon, there were 2 white sheet covered objects in the back seat, the back of the car was smashed totally into the seat, the vehicle that hit the Taurus was also a write off. I would assume that the family who owned the Taurus lost their kids in that one (I still hope they didn't), though I can't be sure since I only had a glance of a couple seconds. Amazingly the Taurus did seem to be in decent shape despite the damage.

On what Trytostaydead said: that sucks, though at the risk of sounding cold: this is why I don't fuck around if there is anyone coming, a few seconds is better than having the EMTs spend the next 12 hours pulling my carcass out of what was once a Honda Civic. (I also drive MUCH differently and significantly more careful if I have anyone in the car with me, I would be annoyed if I Roman-candled, but I would be devistated if I did that with friends or family members in the car and they got hurt. In fact for me that would be enough of a grounds for me to kill myself)

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-10-22 09:51pm

That sucks. I'm fortunate that I've not had to witness that yet.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-22 11:12pm

Ouch.

This is one topic that really gets me started, so I'll just say this: I'm really sorry you had to see that.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-22 11:26pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:the paramedics were covering the woman pretty well, but you could tell there was a person there.....and there was blood..... and the car was so incredibly twisted. Amazingy the driver lived....the speed limit is 45 miles per hour and both vehicles were most likely traveling at that speed....i'm suprised the fuel lines didn't ignite with an impact like that.

A Grand Marquis and a Bronco add up to an awful lot of kinetic energy.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-22 11:28pm

Trytostaydead wrote:Ugh, one of my best friends found out her cousin was killed in a car crash this weekend. Apparently he and his friends, in a small Honda Civic thought they could quickly make a U-turn and outrace an oncoming truck. He and his friends were killed around 4am.. around 3pm they were still trying to remove the bodies.

Not to sound callous, but that's quite a bit different from the accident which started this thread. In fact, it sounds like Grade-A stupidity in action. When a bunch of teenagers are in a car at 4am and they're making reckless driving maneuvers, they're going to kill somebody sooner or later, if not themselves.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-10-22 11:35pm

I think Ive seen a body under a tarp, but to be honest Im not sure if I am remembering something Ive seen on television. A body under a tarp is not too disturbing to me. Seeing them in the car would be upsetting I believe.

The other day I took my eyes of the road for a second and almost hit a parked pickup. It was my fault, but luckily I decided I should be fucking with the passenger seat and should be looking up.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-10-23 12:36am

Ugh, the closest I've ever come to experiencing something like that was when a very good friend of mine was killed in a wreck. Her fiance had turned left in front of a cop car screaming up at 60 in a 35 zone. Passenger side took the full force of the impact, killing my friend, and another passenger in the car.

Anyway, the relevance of this story comes when I attended the funeral. They'd moved really quickly to bury the body. From death to burial took four days. The damage must've been horrific, since as the coffin passed by, I could smell the embalming fluid. That is as close to witnessing the result of a fatal accident as I care to get.

Shogoki · Post by **Shogoki** » 2003-10-23 02:17am

I once saw a really huge accident. We were on the road and we just as we got past a hill there was a still short line of cars. A trailer had crashed with a passenger bus coming from opposite directions, apparently the trailer lost control. The road was completely blocked and the ambulance and road patrol was just getting there, anyway, we got down and got close to the accident, the passengers were already outside, and the wounded didn't seem seriously harmed, at least the ones I saw, the paramedics got right to treating them, some took off with people on board. Most of the passengers seemed ok, a lot of the women were crying. Anyway, we got close enough to see where the vehicles crashed, as i said, it was head on, the cockpit of the bus was gone, and i got to clearly see the severed upper half of the bus driver's body laying on the ground, how it got there, i don't know, and i didn't wonder about it, either, it was quite shocking, they took some photos and then laid a sheet on top of it. After a while people started driving off the road to get pass the wreckage, and that's how we got out of there.