Randy Mosier
May 25th, 05, 5:23 PM
WEDNESDAY (last week):
It seems as if everyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth areas has gone bonkers! On my home from my Verizon interview last week, I was first on the scene at a near head-on collision and had to stop and render aid. A Chrysler mini van was hit by a third gen Camaro. The driver and passengers in the mini van were okay, but the girl driving the Camaro got knocked around pretty hard by the airbag and was obviously in a daze. The airbag must have given her a good punch to the head. She was out walking around the scene and was stumbling out into traffic. I took her to my truck and made her sit until help arrived.
FRIDAY:
We heard on the news that some kid had drove into someone's house in the town next to where we live. The car was imbedded so deeply in the house and had done so much damage, they didn't know if they could pull it out without bringing the house down.
SATURDAY:
My wife and I were on our way to help our son when his car battery died on him. On the way to his place of employment, we witnessed THREE near misses. The first was when some kid in a Toyota decided to make a U-turn on a six lane highway and turned right into the path of an oncoming pickup truck. The truck was sideways in the road by the time he got stopped.
The second near miss was at a traffic light. The car beside us almost got rear ended by a driver who did not see the red light. All we heard was tires squealing. I waited for the BOOM, but the driver stopped in time.
The third happened as we were turning into the place where my son works. Two cars tried to merge into the same lane at the same time. I swear you couldn't have shoved a piece of paper between them, but somehow they avoided each other.
SUNDAY:
My wife and I are on our way from a nearby waterpark and witness an accident in which a young driver in an Expedition blows through a stop sign and collides with mini van. He broadsides the mini van and sends the driver to the hospital with a broken collar bone. Again, along with my wife this time, I'm first on the scene.
YESTERDAY:
Some 14 years kid in Dallas drives a car into a daycare center. How he got behind the wheel is still under investigation, but by some miracle, there were no fatalities at the daycare center.
An 18 wheeler hits a guardrail and bounces into a concrete pillar at the I-45 and I-20 interchange in south Dallas, during rush hour no less. The truck explodes moments later, sending a fireball hundreds of feet into the air. Then the cargo in the trailer sets off several more explosions and all the firefights can so is fall back and let it burn. Again, by some miracle, the driver has just enough time to jump out of the cab and get clear of the explosion and survives with nothing more than minor burns.
Okay, I've seen enough car and truck accidents for a while.
It seems as if everyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth areas has gone bonkers! On my home from my Verizon interview last week, I was first on the scene at a near head-on collision and had to stop and render aid. A Chrysler mini van was hit by a third gen Camaro. The driver and passengers in the mini van were okay, but the girl driving the Camaro got knocked around pretty hard by the airbag and was obviously in a daze. The airbag must have given her a good punch to the head. She was out walking around the scene and was stumbling out into traffic. I took her to my truck and made her sit until help arrived.
FRIDAY:
We heard on the news that some kid had drove into someone's house in the town next to where we live. The car was imbedded so deeply in the house and had done so much damage, they didn't know if they could pull it out without bringing the house down.
SATURDAY:
My wife and I were on our way to help our son when his car battery died on him. On the way to his place of employment, we witnessed THREE near misses. The first was when some kid in a Toyota decided to make a U-turn on a six lane highway and turned right into the path of an oncoming pickup truck. The truck was sideways in the road by the time he got stopped.
The second near miss was at a traffic light. The car beside us almost got rear ended by a driver who did not see the red light. All we heard was tires squealing. I waited for the BOOM, but the driver stopped in time.
The third happened as we were turning into the place where my son works. Two cars tried to merge into the same lane at the same time. I swear you couldn't have shoved a piece of paper between them, but somehow they avoided each other.
SUNDAY:
My wife and I are on our way from a nearby waterpark and witness an accident in which a young driver in an Expedition blows through a stop sign and collides with mini van. He broadsides the mini van and sends the driver to the hospital with a broken collar bone. Again, along with my wife this time, I'm first on the scene.
YESTERDAY:
Some 14 years kid in Dallas drives a car into a daycare center. How he got behind the wheel is still under investigation, but by some miracle, there were no fatalities at the daycare center.
An 18 wheeler hits a guardrail and bounces into a concrete pillar at the I-45 and I-20 interchange in south Dallas, during rush hour no less. The truck explodes moments later, sending a fireball hundreds of feet into the air. Then the cargo in the trailer sets off several more explosions and all the firefights can so is fall back and let it burn. Again, by some miracle, the driver has just enough time to jump out of the cab and get clear of the explosion and survives with nothing more than minor burns.
Okay, I've seen enough car and truck accidents for a while.