May 21, 2010
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1 am. Heading home from moving my sister out of the dorms. An empty freeway. We pass a digital sign: Merge left accident ahead.
Ooh ooh I think, mom is driving I might get to see two smashed up cars. A minute or two later I see the flares. A lot of flares. Oh mom this might be a bad accident I say. My littlest sister sits up. An accident? (she wants to be a paramedic). I roll down the dirty window to rubber neck. Don’t judge you know you rubberneck too!
1 cop, 2 cops…10 cops? News van? Flashing lights everywhere. My mom slows to beware of the officers walking around. Oh no I think this is bad. So many flashing lights. I am not longer excited about a smashed up car.
A semi truck. A mustang. A shocked gasp from my sister and me. The mustang must have been going over 100mph. Pretty high over. The front bumper was crumpled up behind the back tires of the semi. Yes. It went under the trailer. Yes the back of the trailer was inches or less from the front seat headrests. Yes this was a fatality accident. No, no body, it was already cut out of the car. Thanks goodness. I don’t think I could have handled that. Understand that semi trucks have big heavy metal bumpers hanging under the back of the trailer to prevent accidents like this. The mustang plowed through that. Really an eerie, terrible sight.
Yes there have been much worse accidents. I know this. You may have seen the aftermath or witnessed it yourself or god forbid been a part of one. For me, this was the worst I have ever seen. So scary. Especially because as a young driver my dumb years, I put myself in a situation that could have ended just like this. 100mph in the slow lane, up ahead a semi, diagonally behind it a large vehicle. I didn’t slow down, I judged everything and knew I had time to swerve between them. I did, but had one slowed down or sped up, that could have been my fate, I wouldn’t have had time to slow down. Something similar must have happened. I just pray the driver was the only one in the car. To risk someone else because of not so smart driving. So so sad.
Drive carefully people. Please.
Comments (9)
Oh shucks..that’s a lot to take in. I hope you’re ok!
I never rubberneck anymore, not after being an EMT. I have no desire to see more…
@throughsamseyes - It was not at all what I expected to see so it shocked me. I was definitely shaky afterwards but I am ok. Thanks. =)
@WalkingaNewPath - I do not blame you. Not one bit.
That’s terrible. There was an accident in my town a few years back. A guy was on a motorcycle and I think he was speeding some and hit a car. He flew off his motorcycle and died…..It was right in the middle of town too, and they left his body lay right there for quite a while…It was terrible. His wife was even there and saw it all happen. People really need to be more careful when they are driving whether it’s a car, or motorcycle.
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As for accidents…. I rubberneck too. I’ve been in car accidents before and no matter how minor the damage was, my inner core would always shake.
I’m so sorry to hear about the wreck. I hate it when I hear about a car accident. It could so easily be me and I’m a careful driver.
At a stop light once I was behind one other car (and a cop car was behind me). The light turned green. The car was slow to start its crossing and then bam! A car went right through the light and took out the entire front of the car in front of me. If they had started going at a normal speed across the intersection the girl in the passenger seat (and probably the boy in the driver’s seat) would have been dead.
It was so shocking that the cop even took a few elongated seconds to register what had happened I think.
DRIVE CAREFUL!
ps: texting makes you a worse driver than when you’re drunk. Don’t text and drive!
@watermoolen - Yay! Someone else admits to rubbernecking. =) I am the same as you, if I was part of the accident, watched it happen, or saw the aftermath I am always quite shaken.
@darkgreenwriter - I witnessed a similar situation. A car plowed through a red light, way after it had turned, and smashed right into the car waiting to turn left. =(
I do not text while I drive, well I do text when stopped at red lights…but not while the the car is moving.
Usually an accident like that requires several firefighters/paramedics and cops looking around for somebody’s head. “is that it? It kinda looks like … no, it’s a roadkill raccoon. Never mind, keep looking.”
@Born261YearsTooLate - I hate to laugh but…LOL. They had to cut the door off so i am assuming the head was still in the car. There was a circle of firefighters behind a truck, I assumed they were around the body, but I do not know.