Terrible accident

[JoshPeters]

Here in the cities, it's not often that someone will stop when you are in trouble. Flat tire to major issues. This last sunday, a 17 year old boy stopped to help a lady with a flat tire. They were changing the tire, when some moron went on the shoulder to pass someone and hit them. The boy was pinned under the car. Many people stopped and lifted the car off of him. He was in critical condition as of sunday night. The lady that owned the car, as well. Well I just heard on the radio that he passed away. The lady that he stopped to help is still in critical condition. It's unknown how she will come out of this. The idiot that used the shoulder as a passing lane, not even in the hospital. I hope he does some SERIOUS time for it. It's heartwarming to know that people will still stop to help when they can. It's things like this that make people leary to stop. I still will when I can, regardless.



Just a sad story that I thought I'd pass along. I don't personally know any of the people involved. But they are in my thoughts and prayers.



Josh

 

[XcumminsX]

Wow that is sad . Prayers go out to him and his family. I get so mad at idiots who pass on the shoulder. It happens almost everyday coming home and some days when im feeling mean enough ill block them from passing on the shoulder...

 

[CChase]

That's too bad, I hope they pin the idiot with the maximum they can. I can't tolerate people that drive recklessly so they can save THEMSELVES 15 secs... .



I have stopped and helped people out on the side of the road before, but I always park like the state patrol does. Angle the truck so its pointed back at traffic and a fair distance behind so if somebody does hit it, hopefully there enough buffer to stop them or the angle will deflect them around me. One thing that makes me shake my head is the guys that pull up close behind a vehicle on the side of the road then proceed to work between the two vehicles, so what happens if that vehicle gets rearended..... where is the head shaking graemlin?

 

[nickleinonen]

eye for an eye is what this one needs. boy dies, driver who caused it needs to die also, or better, be sent to a [not so] nice prison in need of some fresh meat for the fellow inmates to use.

 

[Chuckie]

Even for safe drivers this is a reminder that operating a motorvehicle is a serious endeavor and requires your full attention!!







Chuckie

 

[Cowboy Medic]

A few years ago I worked a call similar to that, up by Deadwood, SD. A tow truck driver had been called out to help a lady with a flat. Another car drifted off the road and hit them. When we got on scene we had one lady with an amputated leg, the tow truck driver was dead and buried under the wreckage and had the four patients in the car that hit them. I am always amazed at how careless people can get. It just plain scares me some days. Even when we are on a scene with all our lights on usually a police or sheriff's car plus other rescue or fire trucks with their lights on and people are either blasting by ****** off cause we are slowing up traffic or they are so busy gawking at us instead of paying attention to what they are doing that they cause another accident. I am getting to the point where I believe every driver should have to come see some of the messes we have to go to before they are allowed to drive it might scare them into paying a little more attention.

 

[GFrance]

Cowboy medic I doubt if that would do any good. People are so self absorbed when they get behind the wheel, that if it wasn't for others looking out for them they would never make it to where they are going.

We have alot of bridge const. going on here with plenty of warrning signs of lane closers & just about every day there is an accident at one of the const. areas.

I call it tunnel vison with people that don't drive any farther than the nose on their faces.

 

[Cowboy Medic]

LOL, very true. We have a policy of stopping at every marked intersection when we are running lights and sirens and you would not believe how many times that has saved our butts even when we have the right of way with a green light it is like they just lose all sense of reason.

 

[klenger]

I was driving in Pena Blvd from Denver Intl A/P into town. I was in the right lane, and saw a bicycle riding on the right shoulder (which is authorized and posted as such) a ways in front of me. A car came past me and passed and proceeded to pass the car in front of me on the right shoulder. I was sure he would hit the bicyclist, but somehow avoided it. Being a cyclist myself, it scared the crap out of me.

 

[loncray]

Back in my Army days (this would've been 1987 or 1988), I was driving a 5-ton truck with a big intel hut pulling a big generator, second vehicle in a convoy heading into Fort Bragg NC. Pouring down rain so we're driving slow. I'm on a one-lane-each-way road coming up to a bridge over a river. Some yoyo passes me on the right shoulder and proceeds to try to pass the 5-ton in front of me. I watch him bounce his car off the lead vehicle's generator, but that isn't enough warning to him to stop. I watch him get up almost in front of the lead truck and get caught on the bumper and swung around. Meantime, in the lead truck, the codriver and the driver have been goofing off all day long. Thus, when the codriver starts screaming "You hit someone, you hit someone!", the driver blows him off. So, the idiot in the car gets swung around in front of the truck, which is now pushing him sideways. The truck driver finally stops about 20 feet from the bridge - if he'd kept going the car would've been split in half on the bridge guardrail and at least half would've gone into the river (Fayette River? I don't remember the name). Nobody in the car was hurt, though the rear seat passenger should've been killed, and the truck's bumper was a good foot and a half inside the car, having gone THRU the A and B pillars and the windshield sideways. The truck itself had a scratch on the bumper, no further damage. The best part of the story is that the idiot tried to sue the lead driver and the US Army. He didn't win.

 

[Cowboy Medic]

In EMS you learn a few things, one of them is "generally people are stupid" the other is "if you are gonna be stupid you had better be tough" especially cause it will take us a while to :-laf get there and even longer to give ya any pain meds.

 

[Jeff H]

I really surprised by the amount of people blasting through stop sighns around here. Some day some one is gonna get it.

I saw that on the news about the boy who was killed. They showed on traffic cam all the people that were lifting the car. If yer ever in the twin cities and blow a tire on the hiway. Wait for the hiway helper. Or get off the hiway. The hiway is not a place to work on the vehicle.

 

[Cowboy Medic]

Definitely, I did a majority of my Paramedic Clinicals in the Twin Cities and the highways there are just plain scary for anyone having to be out there on foot for anything.

 

[bmoeller]

I saw someone in a (looked to be near new) sports-car. That yahoo blew through the stop sign (4-way stop intersection). He slowed down to about maybe 15-20mph, then floors it once he's in the middle of the intersection. Glad I was still stopped. The idiot would've eaten the 18-wheeler I was driving.