One of the most horrific wrecks I've ever seen/heard. (Page 1/2)
blackrams SEP 29, 05:39 AM
Coming back to Hattiesburg, MS from Little Rock, AR yesterday, I heard a loud bang/explosion. Didn't actually see the impact but, a pickup pulled out in front of a semi and got T Boned. Maybe a half mile in front of me. The semi was in my opposing lane, the pickup crossed in front of the semi at an intersection. The Pickup was actually broke in half at the cab/bed line and was mangled beyond recognition. The front of the semi was gone. Stopped but, there was nothing to be done for the driver and passenger in the pick up. Please, watch where you're going and look to see what is coming at you. LEOs arrived very quickly, someone else called 911. Ambulance was pulling up as I left. My limited "First Responder" training wasn't going to do squat to bring those pickup folks back and someone else was attending to the semi-driver.

I'm sure there are worse wrecks, this one just happened to occur within hearing distance. I'm sure that had I been looking that direction, I would have observed the actual impact.

Interestingly, all those folks who had been blowing past me started slowing down.

Rams
Rickady88GT SEP 29, 07:31 AM
I live near a notorious intersection, it's a half mile away. It is a 55mph road that people do 65+ regularly. The intersection has a STOP sign for one direction, right of way for the other. I was out in the yard and heard LOTS of Police sirens and a helicopter, obviously it was a chase. Then I heard an explosion. It took a minute to realize that the explosion was actually a car crash at the intersection. I jumped in the car and drove to the sight. Police involved in the chase had already blocked traffic. What had happened was a stolen truck with 2 gang members in it was driving on the road with a STOP sign, at a high rate of speed. That truck failed to stop at the intersection and collided with 2 cars crossing the intersection from the direction with no STOP sight. The 2 cars were traveling in opposite direction of one another and by pure chance all 3 vehicles were in the very center of the intersection at the same time. The truck, because of it's mass and high speed pushed bothe cars at least 30 yards off the road. The truck was in two big pieces that I could see. The cars were completely unrecognizable as vehicles. All 3 vehicles wound up near each other in a field. Only one survived the crash. Guess wich one, yep a gang member in the stolen truck. 4 dead total.
The sound from half mile away was unbelievable, no skid marks, no vehicle even attempted to stop, just one massive three car crash, each car from a different direction.
sourmash SEP 29, 08:02 AM
I hope that White supremacist never gets out of jail.
fierofool SEP 29, 08:56 AM

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Originally posted by sourmash:

I hope that White supremacist never gets out of jail.



WHAT !!!???
82-T/A [At Work] SEP 29, 09:34 AM

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Originally posted by blackrams:

Coming back to Hattiesburg, MS from Little Rock, AR yesterday, I heard a loud bang/explosion. Didn't actually see the impact but, a pickup pulled out in front of a semi and got T Boned. Maybe a half mile in front of me. The semi was in my opposing lane, the pickup crossed in front of the semi at an intersection. The Pickup was actually broke in half at the cab/bed line and was mangled beyond recognition. The front of the semi was gone. Stopped but, there was nothing to be done for the driver and passenger in the pick up. Please, watch where you're going and look to see what is coming at you. LEOs arrived very quickly, someone else called 911. Ambulance was pulling up as I left. My limited "First Responder" training wasn't going to do squat to bring those pickup folks back and someone else was attending to the semi-driver.




Brutal... I wonder at what point they realized they had made a mistake? Sometimes when people pull out and realize they've screwed up, they freeze, rather than flooring it and hoping to avoid pending doom.

Worst accident for me was something I witnessed heading back to Florida from West Virginia. It was somewhere on I-95... maybe in North Carolina? Two people on a motorcycle had been run over by a semi truck. The police had just arrived on scene, and hadn't even covered the bodies yet. I hate to put it this way, but the bodies seemed to still be together (motorcycle was about 20-30 meters away, but you wouldn't have even known they were bodies... best I could describe is that it looked like a "meat pile." I don't really even know what you do in that situation because there's really no attempt to saving someone, and even with my Catholic values of protecting life... at that point, do you even want to? The one police officer there was flagging people past, so they didn't want us to stop, so it was obvious there was nothing to do.



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Originally posted by fierofool:

WHAT !!!???



Lol, don't even go there. He's trying to make the insinuation that the drivers of the pickup truck were likely illegal aliens from Mexico, and he's playing off the fact that the media always leaves these things out because they are pro open-borders. He's probably right in this case, but I try to ignore him because he gets really crazy sometimes.
sourmash SEP 29, 10:51 AM
People who have imaginary discussions that don't exist calling other people crazy. Yes, that's our new America.

I always try to believe what my government and especially the CIA tells me, and that is that the greatest threat we face domestically is White terrorism.

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williegoat SEP 29, 11:51 AM
I have seen my share of highway carnage first hand and have reviewed far more accident reports with photos, videos and autopsies than I would have preferred. I could tell some stories, but I probably won't.
olejoedad SEP 29, 12:13 PM
Yeah Willie, I know what you mean.
My experience was with industrial accidents.
Glad I don't do that anymore.
blackrams SEP 29, 12:45 PM

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Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I try to ignore him because he gets really crazy sometimes.



Sometimes?

Rams
fierofool SEP 29, 01:31 PM
I was on Hwy 146 between Providence, RI and Worcester, MA, the 5th in a line of cars. Suddenly the lead car switched to the oncoming lane. The cab-over semi jackknifed and the Ford Maverick hit it in the right front wheel, passing underneath the cab with the steering axle ripping out of the truck. The car spun around and came to rest on the right shoulder pointed in the direction we were coming from. Someone had already gotten to the truck driver and I ran on up the road to the Maverick that had it's roof laid back over the trunk.

The driver was sitting upright in the seat with his left arm pointing upward. As I grabbed his wrist to check for a pulse, I noticed that he had been capped just above the eyebrows. I guess I went into shock at that time because I continued to search the car and debris for any passengers. I called 10-33 on the CB and got EMT, police and fire on the scene. PD took my info and let me go. I held it together for about another 20 miles until I reached my inlaws and then almost had a total breakdown.