Bad Car Wrecks (Graphic)

[Dexter Morgan]

I thought this might be an interesting topic, because everybody has seen, or been in a vehicle accident. This thread is for people to tell about wrecks they have seen, or experienced. I'll start us on our way.....


Fifteen years ago, an ex boyfriend of mine, was killed by a drunk driver. The ex was 22 at the time. He and his girl friend where just out cruising some country roads ( like you do ) and they were going 55 mph. They topped a hill, and as soon as they got passed the hill, they saw a pickup truck careening towards them, in their lane. The girl swerved into the other lane, and just as she did that, the other driver swerved back to his lane, and they crashed head on. The girl was wearing her seatbelt, but the ex wasn't. Needless to say, the impact was tremendous. The ex was thrown up under the dash board.  She didn't get hurt, but it took the paramedics 2 hours, to get him out from under the dashboard. He was alive the entire time. Somebody that witnessed it, said that his legs were turned completely around in their sockets.  They managed to get him out, and Life Flight was there to take him to the hospital. Something happened when they got him up in the air. His blood pressure dropped and he went in to cardiac arrest. He died, and it was sooo sad, because he was a real good guy. The drunk driver escaped injury unfortunately. He was driving on a suspended licence from a previous DUI. Infact, he had had many DUIs. If I remember this right, I think he got 22 years in prison. He got a year for every year of Jeff's life. I hate people who drive drunk.  They have a reckless disregard for other people's safety and life. 

[tallulahdahling]

How terrible, Dex -- I know this memory must still haunt you.

I know they say that alcoholism is a disease and these people should be treated just as any other sick person but isn't there some conscience somewhere?  I mean, I know that when I get blotto I still maintain some manners and common sense. 
Are these drunks who drive just in complete blackout? 
I dunno 

[Dexter Morgan]

How terrible, Dex -- I know this memory must still haunt you.

I know they say that alcoholism is a disease and these people should be treated just as any other sick person but isn't there some conscience somewhere?  I mean, I know that when I get blotto I still maintain some manners and common sense. 
Are these drunks who drive just in complete blackout? 
I dunno 

I don't consider alcoholism as a disease. That's a cop out. There is nobody or nothing that forces people to drink IMO. When I think of disease, I think of Cancer, heart disease, and things like Parkinsons disease. Nobody forces anybody to drink, and if a person can't stop drinking, it's their own damn fault. 

[damfast]

Amen my sister.

Calling  disease is just an excuse for weakness.  And a drunk driver should be taken to professional jail.  That tent camp comes to mnd.

grins....

[Sandy Eggo]

A friend of a friend was traveling back on what would be considered a country road too. She was engaged to be married and she and her fiance had traveled the back way to another town to pick up something for her wedding. A drunk kid, under the age of 18 was speeding the opposite way down that road, trying to dodge police and hit another car (ironically carrying a wedding party) which caused that car to careen out of control and hit the friends car. The driver of both cars died. The kid didn't and it turned out that he didn't have a license at all and this was his second DUI accident.

My friend took me out to the scene of the accident, perhaps a year later. They had built a memorial for the two drivers that had died and my friend had placed an eternal candle on the site and wanted me to see it. We went, she stopped to tidy up the memorial and we took off again. Up ahead, just a little ways was someone walking. I couldn't make out if it was a man or woman and whoever it was appeared to have a hooded jacket on with their hands stuffed in the pocket. I didn't comment, but thought to myself that it was entirely too cold and dark to be walking on that road in a dark jacket. As we got closer, I couldn't see the person anymore. There wasn't any place for him or her to go, so I kinda wondered and said, "huh". About the time I started to think it was my imagination, my friend said, "did you see the person in the jacket too" and I said that I did. She had seen him/her too and when they disappeared she thought maybe it had been her imagination, until I made a noise.

[Dexter Morgan]

Amen my sister.

Calling  disease is just an excuse for weakness.  And a drunk driver should be taken to professional jail.  That tent camp comes to mnd.

grins....

Bingo Damfast!!! 

[Dexter Morgan]

A friend of a friend was traveling back on what would be considered a country road too. She was engaged to be married and she and her fiance had traveled the back way to another town to pick up something for her wedding. A drunk kid, under the age of 18 was speeding the opposite way down that road, trying to dodge police and hit another car (ironically carrying a wedding party) which caused that car to careen out of control and hit the friends car. The driver of both cars died. The kid didn't and it turned out that he didn't have a license at all and this was his second DUI accident.

My friend took me out to the scene of the accident, perhaps a year later. They had built a memorial for the two drivers that had died and my friend had placed an eternal candle on the site and wanted me to see it. We went, she stopped to tidy up the memorial and we took off again. Up ahead, just a little ways was someone walking. I couldn't make out if it was a man or woman and whoever it was appeared to have a hooded jacket on with their hands stuffed in the pocket. I didn't comment, but thought to myself that it was entirely too cold and dark to be walking on that road in a dark jacket. As we got closer, I couldn't see the person anymore. There wasn't any place for him or her to go, so I kinda wondered and said, "huh". About the time I started to think it was my imagination, my friend said, "did you see the person in the jacket too" and I said that I did. She had seen him/her too and when they disappeared she thought maybe it had been her imagination, until I made a noise.

Wow, that's freaky.  Probably a lost soul wandering the road, unable to "leave" that spot.  How sad.  Good people get killed all the time, because of other peoples lack of good judgement. 

[Dexter Morgan]

Here's another one where alcohol was partially to blame....

These three guys my husband went to school with got killed in a wreck. They had been at a bar in our area, and they were drunk, and got into a fight with a couple other guys, over one guys ex girlfriend. They took it outside, and the 3 guys got their asses kicked. They jumped in the one guy's Trans am, and high tailed it out of there. The other guys gave chase. They were driving in excess of 120 mph, and the guys in the Trans am, hit some railroad tracks, and lost control. They crashed in to a tree going 120 mph .  The guy in the drivers seat got decapitated, and his head landed in the back seat, the rest of his body, flew out the drivers side window. The guy in the passengers seat, flew out the  T tops and landed 10 yards from the car. The guy in the backseat was thrown under the dashboard, and had to be cut out of the car. He is still alive and doing very well today. The passenger died on the way to the hospital. The paramedics didn't even know there was a third person. They didn't see him right away. Infact, he had laid there for a half an hour, before they noticed him. Drunken stupidity at it's finest folks.  The bad thing is the front passenger had a genius IQ. What a sensless waste of a genius brain. 

[Gryphon]

While I've had my share of wrecks, none were so bad as one my sister was in when she was in high school.
She and her boyfriend were traveling on a five lane road, in the right lane, just behind another pick up truck that was passing them in the left lane. As they rounded  a broad curve, a sports car going over 90MPH lost control coming in the other direction....hitting the truck that was passing my sister head-on and sending it into the truck she was riding in. The impact was great enough to push her truck backwards into the car behind them.
No one in my sisters car was seriously injured, but two people died in the sports car, and the two older gentlemen in the truck that took the brunt of it were badly injured. My sister got out to check on everyone, and said one of the guys in the sports car was practically decapitated. His wife came onto the scene of the accident a few minutes later and by all accounts had a total breakdown. Apparently, the wife had dropped her husband and his friend off to pick up the sports car from the mechanics--where some performance modifications had been done, and they were all headed home. I guess he wanted to try out the new "enhancements".
While my sisters car was the least damaged of the lot, it was still totalled. I can still remember, going to the junkyard to get some things out of the truck...there was like a fistful of her hair hanging out of the broken windshield where she hit it. The truck and sports car were almost unrecognizable.

[Palehorse]

When I was 7 I recall being in the vehicle with my mom and dad and we were sitting at a stop light. There was a small boy and his mother waiting at the curb right across from us. The boy jerked his hand away from his mother and stepped off the curb and a car making a right hand turn hit him almost immediately. The vehicle somehow had hit him and threw him down and the right front tire crushed his head like a ripe melon.

Needless to say the mother went gonzo, and all traffic stopped on the spot. We were first in line so I had an unobstructed view of the boy for some time. This was back in the days when ambulances were made just like a hearse, windows and all. I remember them placing him on the gurney and throwing a sheet over him. I remember the blood soaking through the white sheet as they slid him into the back. . .

[Dexter Morgan]

While I've had my share of wrecks, none were so bad as one my sister was in when she was in high school.
She and her boyfriend were traveling on a five lane road, in the right lane, just behind another pick up truck that was passing them in the left lane. As they rounded  a broad curve, a sports car going over 90MPH lost control coming in the other direction....hitting the truck that was passing my sister head-on and sending it into the truck she was riding in. The impact was great enough to push her truck backwards into the car behind them.
No one in my sisters car was seriously injured, but two people died in the sports car, and the two older gentlemen in the truck that took the brunt of it were badly injured. My sister got out to check on everyone, and said one of the guys in the sports car was practically decapitated. His wife came onto the scene of the accident a few minutes later and by all accounts had a total breakdown. Apparently, the wife had dropped her husband and his friend off to pick up the sports car from the mechanics--where some performance modifications had been done, and they were all headed home. I guess he wanted to try out the new "enhancements".
While my sisters car was the least damaged of the lot, it was still totalled. I can still remember, going to the junkyard to get some things out of the truck...there was like a fistful of her hair hanging out of the broken windshield where she hit it. The truck and sports car were almost unrecognizable.

How horrible Gryphon.  Your sister was extremely lucky. I can't imagine the horror of seeing something like that. My husband drives a semi, and he has seen some horrific stuff. He's seen people burn to death, and all kinds of things. He's seen body parts laying in the road, and one time he saw a guy on a motorcycle, that ran up under the back, of a stopped semi. He said, that both the guy, and the bike were wrapped around the back axle.  He said unless you knew for sure, you would have no idea whatsoever ,what it was by looking at it. He said, the most heartbreaking thing he ever saw involved a child. He came up on this, so he didn't actually see it happen Thank God. It was on the interstate somewhere ( I can't remember where, the mind goes with age you know  ) anywho..... a woman in a small car rear ended a semi, and she didn't have her infant child in a car seat, and you guessed it, the child flew out the windshield.  Hubby said it was just a blob on the road.  The woman was screaming and hysterical. Hubby said, he felt bad for the woman, but he was sooo enraged he felt like smacking her, for not having the child in a car seat. Stuff like that is soooooo avoidable.

[Dexter Morgan]

When I was 7 I recall being in the vehicle with my mom and dad and we were sitting at a stop light. There was a small boy and his mother waiting at the curb right across from us. The boy jerked his hand away from his mother and stepped off the curb and a car making a right hand turn hit him almost immediately. The vehicle somehow had hit him and threw him down and the right front tire crushed his head like a ripe melon.

Needless to say the mother went gonzo, and all traffic stopped on the spot. We were first in line so I had an unobstructed view of the boy for some time. This was back in the days when ambulances were made just like a hearse, windows and all. I remember them placing him on the gurney and throwing a sheet over him. I remember the blood soaking through the white sheet as they slid him into the back. . .

Man PH, that would be a horrible thing to see as a child, very traumatizing I'm sure.  I think the worst thing in the world to see, would be a child getting killed.  I don't think I could handle that. 

[Dexter Morgan]

Here's a story about a wreck caused by stupidity......

There are a lot of kids, that think playing chicken in cars, is cool. This story proves that it isn't always a cool thing to do.....
A couple weeks after graduation 1988, here in my area, some kids that had just graduated were out, and about. One car had a couple of guys, that were kind of known as idiots. They were 17 or 18 years old. Enter another couple 17 or 18 years old. Same graduating class as the other guys. This was a guy and a girl who were engaged to be married. This couple graduated with honors, and had very bright futures ahead of them (not). Anywho.... The couple was going north and the other guys were headed south, when they met on the road. Both drivers decided a game of chicken was a good idea. (not a good idea ) neither guy backed off, and they hit head on. Neither driver got hurt.  The girl flew through the windshield, she survived the impact, despite the fact that her brain was hanging out of her head. She was LifeFlighted to Peoria, declared brain dead, and put on life support. The family had it turned off 2 days later, and she died.

The other passenger had horrible injuries. Both legs were shattered, all of his ribs were broken, he had severe internal injuries, and every bone in his face was broken, even his eye sockets. He was in bad shape, and a coma for months. He did survive though, and seemed to be doing well. Here's where it takes a strange and ironic twist.... Four years later he was fully recovered, and suddenly he came down with spinal Meningitis. He died. They said it was latent Meningitis, caused by the car accident 4 years earlier.  They tried to get the guy driving the car he was in for vehicular homicide, but I don't think anything ever came of it. The other guy didn't get anything out of it either. It was classified as an accident.  What a waste. 

[Gryphon]

How awful...
when I was a junior in high school, a friend of mine and I decided to race these girls down a windy mountain road. (Stupid, yes)
Well as we came toward one curve, my friend who was driving tried to get back into the right lane. When he did, he went off the edge, overcorrected and we started spinning. I remember it so vividly. It felt at one point like we had stopped (because we were sliding sideways at that point instead of in circles). My friend turned andsaid "are you ok" and at that moment a tree just came busting through the windshield (we were flipping down the embankment). I dont know how many times it rolled over, but when it was all said and done, there was no part of the car that wasnt smashed...both axels were broken (one of the rear wheels was pushed up into the backseat).
I dont know how, but nobody was hurt.

[Dexter Morgan]

How awful...
when I was a junior in high school, a friend of mine and I decided to race these girls down a windy mountain road. (Stupid, yes)
Well as we came toward one curve, my friend who was driving tried to get back into the right lane. When he did, he went off the edge, overcorrected and we started spinning. I remember it so vividly. It felt at one point like we had stopped (because we were sliding sideways at that point instead of in circles). My friend turned andsaid "are you ok" and at that moment a tree just came busting through the windshield (we were flipping down the embankment). I dont know how many times it rolled over, but when it was all said and done, there was no part of the car that wasnt smashed...both axels were broken (one of the rear wheels was pushed up into the backseat).
I dont know how, but nobody was hurt.

Jesum Crow Gryphon!!!  It's a miracle you're here to tell about it. What happened to the girls? Did they wreck too?