I don’t really relish those old memories and it isn’t a matter of trying to forget or not but I can’t say it doesn’t bother me to remember.
The recent spate of incidents is what unlocked those memories.
Few cars were on the roads at night back in those days.
We got called out to an accident on the
little two lane highway one dark summer night so long ago.
We always took an emergency equipment truck and a fire truck and an ambulance.
Someone passing by had called it in.
I remember that we didn’t spend a lot of time at the first car we came to.
“Too late for this one go on to the other one.”
Seemed odd that the first one we came to looked like she had just pulled off the road to park it she was headed south bound.
So we got to the next car, single occupant again and it was too late for him too.
Funny that I don’t remember if the cars were still running but their headlights were still on.
Evidence shows that they side swiped by about a foot in on both cars,
One or both probably fell asleep and drifted over towards the other side.
What I thought was odd was the lack of visible trauma on the guy.
The lower part of the dash board was crushed around his right knee.
That was it,he was just sitting there dead and upright.
We went back to the woman and there was no visible trauma either except you could see where she went up and hit her forehead above the windshield.
Just a gash but not one of those brain exposing injuries.
Just sitting there dead too, all seatbelted in.
We figured that the shock of two cars hitting at who knows what speed must have been what killed them but I don’t remember hearing anything official.
Unbelievable these days how many accidents or as I like to call them incidents happen on that five mile stretch of open highway with its little rural intersections.
Is it distracted driving from cell phones or drug use or something supernatural?
Nobody seems to have a better explanation.
When I said seat belted in I believe that it was just a lap belt in those days.
The recent spate of incidents is what unlocked those memories.
Few cars were on the roads at night back in those days.
We got called out to an accident on the
little two lane highway one dark summer night so long ago.
We always took an emergency equipment truck and a fire truck and an ambulance.
Someone passing by had called it in.
I remember that we didn’t spend a lot of time at the first car we came to.
“Too late for this one go on to the other one.”
Seemed odd that the first one we came to looked like she had just pulled off the road to park it she was headed south bound.
So we got to the next car, single occupant again and it was too late for him too.
Funny that I don’t remember if the cars were still running but their headlights were still on.
Evidence shows that they side swiped by about a foot in on both cars,
One or both probably fell asleep and drifted over towards the other side.
What I thought was odd was the lack of visible trauma on the guy.
The lower part of the dash board was crushed around his right knee.
That was it,he was just sitting there dead and upright.
We went back to the woman and there was no visible trauma either except you could see where she went up and hit her forehead above the windshield.
Just a gash but not one of those brain exposing injuries.
Just sitting there dead too, all seatbelted in.
We figured that the shock of two cars hitting at who knows what speed must have been what killed them but I don’t remember hearing anything official.
Unbelievable these days how many accidents or as I like to call them incidents happen on that five mile stretch of open highway with its little rural intersections.
Is it distracted driving from cell phones or drug use or something supernatural?
Nobody seems to have a better explanation.
When I said seat belted in I believe that it was just a lap belt in those days.
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