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ValuePack
07-08-2007, 03:06 PM
I watched a guy on foot get SMASHED by someone in a Jeep Cherokee doing 40mph+ last night; I don't think he made it. Pay attention, and speed safely, because I really don't *ever* want to have to watch something like that again. That is all.
doylfish
07-08-2007, 05:15 PM
wow, that's incredible, not something you probably want to see either
TrickyDik
07-08-2007, 05:32 PM
It's something isn't it? It's pretty wicked to see someone get full out crushed by a car. Sad I guess, but I don't get grossed out or upset about those things, but in my field of work I've sorta been desensitized by that kind of stuff.

I saw something similar down in D.C. last summer while stationed there. A guy on a crotch rocket was looking back at some buddies on 50 mph road and didn't pay attention to where he was going. Completely annihilated a pedistrian crossing the street at a crosswalk during a red light. The motorcycle then went into the intersection and lodged itself halfway inside a honda civics front seat through the windshield. Pedistrians legs were 50 feet away from the torso, dead. Motorcycle driver, dead. Civic driver dead from head being smashed in.
ValuePack
07-08-2007, 06:51 PM
Ack. Yeah, this guy was still in one piece(on the outside anyway), but had to have done a few full revolutions, at least 10 feet off the ground; came off the grill and bumper, pushed in the windshield with the back of his head, up, up, and away... pretty sure he landed head-down, too. The ambulance left with no urgency whatsoever... he was either stable but unconscious or seriously DOA.

Totally unnatural to see a human body move at that pace in that way. I *really* wish I hadn't seen that. "Look both ways" comes to mind... he was leisurely crossing the street to his friends(he never looked around, not once), and I had to lay into the brakes to slow in time... I missed him by several car lengths but had a front row seat to watch the Tilt-a-Whirl show when the Jeep in the oncoming lane caught him dead center.
Murphy2012
07-08-2007, 08:31 PM
Yuckkkkk
TurboRush
07-09-2007, 07:54 AM
Nasty... did the pedestrian look? We have to cross the street to get to the parking lot here at work and I almost see people get clipped all the time because nobody looks, they just bolt out into the road assuming someone will stop.. they had to put up big yellow signs telling people to look because there were so many close calls.

I always stop for pedestrians but if you go bombing out in front of me from behind a car, not much I'll be able to do.
Bu11dogg2
07-09-2007, 08:39 AM
A buddy of mine rolled his car 7 times in a snow storm. He walked away from the accident. The sad part is that a witness stopped to help him and got plowed by an 18 wheeler.

He had a nervous breakdown....
ValuePack
07-09-2007, 10:08 AM
Nasty... did the pedestrian look?

Nope, not once, he never looked at me OR at the Jeep that got him. It's really stupid, as this is Cilley Rd. in Manchester... several miles long, and not a single curve in the road. I could see the Jeep of Doom coming from at least half a mile away, it's not like it snuck up on him.
Gitster
07-09-2007, 10:24 AM
A buddy of mine rolled his car 7 times in a snow storm. He walked away from the accident. The sad part is that a witness stopped to help him and got plowed by an 18 wheeler.

He had a nervous breakdown....

Thats awful, I dunno what i would do ....
Bu11dogg2
07-09-2007, 11:09 AM
He ended up in the hospital because of the nervous break down...


Valuepak,

you ok man?
FREAK
07-09-2007, 11:44 AM
that sucks man
ValuePack
07-09-2007, 01:43 PM
Valuepak,

you ok man?

I've certainly been better. I didn't think this would get to me as I consider myself to be pretty desensitized(you can thank cable, YouTube, and my wife, who works in the funeral industry, for that) but this is getting to me more as time goes by. I find myself driving in a vastly different way, and freaking at every douche who walks too close to the road, or at every car that pulls some dumbass stunt anywhere near me.

I'm sure I'm fine, but as this is the third person I've watched die in as many years, it *is* getting to me a little.
Bu11dogg2
07-09-2007, 02:02 PM
Don't end up like my buddy man... watching someone get killed is never easy.
ValuePack
07-09-2007, 03:22 PM
Don't end up like my buddy man... watching someone get killed is never easy.

Meh... there's a lot more things in my life I could go off the deep end about. Life goes on.
unsakred
07-09-2007, 03:26 PM
lol^ he speaks the truth

+1234 for seeing disturbing, mind warping things