Yea I know how that feels, to see an accident.
I live on route 20, its a 4 lane highway, and theres a sharp curve about 100 feet down from where I live and prople like to fly around this corner, the speedlimit is 55mph, but drops to 35mph for the curve. About 4 years ago I was sitting watchin TV, its about midnight and I hear a car comming very fast, I think to myself, whoever that is they better slow down, but he dosen`t and I hear tire squeeling and 3 big crashes, like a car flipping over and over.. Well I woke my wife and told her she better call 911. Then I rushed out the door and ran down the road to help, if i`d known what I was about to see I would have stayed put. The accident happened in front of a bar (pub) and drunken patrons are trying to help, they were outside when this took place.
I find a blazer upside down, one with the removable fiberglass top, the top is scattered in pieces all around, no one is left in the blazer which had 4 occupants, they were laying in different areas, execpt the driver, he is wandering around like in a trance.. I ask him if he`s alright, didn`t get an answer, he just stared at me.
I approached another, that I could hear moaning, it was a girl, her right leg looked like it was on backwards, she was pinned between the blazer and another car that was parked. My wife is now arriving on the sceen and she is checking on a man that is laying on the ground unconsious.
But the 3rd guy is laying in a small ditch in the parking lot, when I approached I could smell his insides, He is laying in a ditch filled with his own blood. One of the drunken patrons watched this guys body get thrown into the air so high he hit the powerlines which cut a gash in his side before falling to the ground. This patron`s thought it was part of the blazer..
Within 20 minuets of the accident I could hear sirens meaning help was on the way.
Well I had chest pains for several hours afterwards, my wife had me go to the hospital to be checked out, she thought I was having a heart attack.
To sum it up, one person died, the unconsious guy is now parlized from the neck down, the girl had a shatered pelvis bone and lost an eye, and, oh the driver is serving time for manslaughter. Now when a car speeds by I remember this and curse them to slow down.
