It was on I-75. I saw a coroner truck. :( It was a car and a truck. Man the car was so mangled. I hope no one else was in the car. Any one else drive past an bad bad accident before?

 

    I saw a man get electrocuted by a 20,000 volt line in a work accident. He survived it, and was back to work in a month, but I was shaken up for a week.

 

    I can't imagine being in a war, just for the shock of so many gruesome injuries.

Some of you have seen photos of some of the wrecks on the curve by my house. It used to be a lot worse; there was a big tree straight off the curve and in line with the westbound traffic on the one-way arterial as it heads out of town.

 

Before the city put in a stoplight a couple of blocks up, there was an eight-block straightaway from the last light, and another mile and a half until the next one. There was and still is a lot of speeding there, but then it was a prime venue for late-night racing, and the wrecks were much more frequent and often much more severe than they are now.

 

One night in the 1970s I heard a "BOOM!" sound like a bomb going off close by, followed by the sound of a car speeding away, and they by screaming. I looked outside to see a white Chevy halfway wrapped around the tree and suspended a couple of feet off the ground. The screaming was coming from inside the Chevy. I called the cops right away; given the mangled condition of the car and its inaccessible location there was nothing else I could do, and I didn't want to get too close in case the car blew up. The cops arrived in just a couple of minutes.

 

Across the street, one of the tall aluminum poles that held a cobra-head street light was laying halfway in the street. The cops soon determined that it had been hit by and had fallen upon the other car, and that info helped them to locate the other car and arrest the other driver.

 

The driver of the Chevy turned out to be the son of a foreman where I worked. He was terribly injured but survived, and the intial prognosis said that he might be paralyzed from the chest down and never walk again. A few years later I learned that he had made sufficient recovery to be able to walk and to work for a living, although not without a bad limp and chronic pain.

 

  Just two days after contributing to this thread I witnessed an automobile accident where a minivan rolled completely over. You don't see that everyday.  :-o