I saw the FTAB halftime show at Rice in 1980. That train wreck oughta qualify.
Have you ever witnessed a terrible accident?
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Never saw one happen, but drove by shortly after. Police had just covered the body on the road, but her rainbow sock was sticking out from under the cover.
It was Christmas, and it was sad.
It was Christmas, and it was sad.
I was also one of the first people to drive up on an accident where someone ran a red light and hit a car turning left. Everyone was okay, but the baby in the back seat in an unsecured carseat that was facing the wrong way and wasnt strapped in properly was screaming (scared more than anything). A few off duty firefighters pulled up too. They semi laid into the lady about how that babys carseat was. She said she had it that way so the baby didnt cry (9 month old forward facing). As we walked off, they commented on how they were surprised that baby was still in her carseat after that, let alone alive with the way she was strapped in.
My brother and his girlfriend got in one on the way to my house one night and I was the first person on the scene. It was late at night but I saw a car off the road wrapped around a tree and figured I should stop and see if it was a fresh accident. When I got closer to the car I was like ****, I think that's my brother's car. Both had big gashes in their heads so there was blood all over the inside of the car. They were both unconscious when I got there, but I got them to wake up. Another car stopped and I told them to call 911. My brother's legs were pinned by the dash, the whole front drivers side was crushed in. I bandaged up both of their heads as well as I could, and had to use a crow bar to get the passenger side door open to get his girlfriend out. They ended up having to use the jaws of life to try to cut my brother out of the car. Finally after a couple hours they just shot him full of ketamine and were able to jerk him out with about five guys. They air flighted him out and I met them at the hospital. He ended up with a broken femur, broken pelvis, and broken hand. Luckily he's doing fine now, but it was pretty bad.
Here's a pic of the car:
Here's a pic of the car:
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I saw a guy blasting down 1-35E northbound outside of downtown Dallas on a sport bike lay his bike down. Amazingly enough, he got up and walked away.
Yep. Saw a car flip over and roll a few times on my way home to Austin from CS. Some of us ran up to see if we could help. The woman driving hadn't been wearing a seatbelt and she had been partially ejected through the windshield and the car had landed on top of her. I kinda laid down in the grass next to the window and just kept telling her she wasn't alone while others called 911. She didn't make it. That messed me up for a while. Wear your seatbelts, people.
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Yep. Saw a car flip over and roll a few times on my way home to Austin from CS. Some of us ran up to see if we could help. The woman driving hadn't been wearing a seatbelt and she had been partially ejected through the windshield and the car had landed on top of her. I kinda laid down in the grass next to the window and just kept telling her she wasn't alone while others called 911. She didn't make it. That messed me up for a while. Wear your seatbelts, people.
I'm still here because of a seatbelt. Still spent nearly two months in the hospital.
Seen several professionally but the worst one was just passing by. It was bad enough that I ended up turning away from EMS forever. Trapped people and fire is something I have experienced more than once in my life and I will be extremely glad if it never happens again. The sights, sounds, and smells stay with you forever.
Wrapped my truck around a tree and hit my window so hard it shattered and split my head open. Firefighters said id be dead if I wasnt wearing a seat belt
Didn't witness the accident, but was one of the first on the scene to a car that Had gone into a river in a canyon in Colorado. Passenger got out, but the driver was stuck and drowned, Despite the effort of some kayakers to free him. At some point he popped free and started floating down river. Me and a couple other guys jumped in and pushed him into an eddy to start CPR, but it was pretty clearly too late
Nevermind. I take it back. I have witnessed a fatal accident (though i try to not think about it much, as I knew the guy my whole life).
I was riding the bus to school in high school on a super foggy morning. Another student didnt see the bus stopped in the fog and ran his pickup into/under the back of the bus. He passed away shortly after being freed from his vehicle. They knew this would be the case and had his parents and sister come up to the wreck.
I was riding the bus to school in high school on a super foggy morning. Another student didnt see the bus stopped in the fog and ran his pickup into/under the back of the bus. He passed away shortly after being freed from his vehicle. They knew this would be the case and had his parents and sister come up to the wreck.
When I was a kid I saw a guy on a motorcycle with his girl sitting behind him doing a wheelie down a street...they went over backwards and her head hit the pavement...no helmet. Not sure if she made it or not.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
Was in a suburban that got hit and flipped over. I had just left the ER for a broken finger (work injury so had to go). On the feeder road at I-45 and 242 buddy driving runs the company vehicle through the red light. I had just buckled up too, but and flipped over. Back to the same ER I had just left. No major injuries and went back to work that same day. Also summer between HS graduation and fish year.
First on the scene during an army training accident where an LMTV (5 ton truck for those of you who don't speak Army) rolled over two guys at night. Lots of mistakes made, culminating in one dead and one serious injury. Kid who died had his head crushed. Other kid broken ankle, arm, and shoulder. There's a reason you put wheel chocks down and don't park on a slope and don't let your dudes sleep behind vehicles. This was all a month before I got off active duty. Had to escort the body to somewhere Missouri, spend a week there and then escort the family for our battalion memorial service two weeks later. My entire last month of the army was dealing with this.
First on the scene during an army training accident where an LMTV (5 ton truck for those of you who don't speak Army) rolled over two guys at night. Lots of mistakes made, culminating in one dead and one serious injury. Kid who died had his head crushed. Other kid broken ankle, arm, and shoulder. There's a reason you put wheel chocks down and don't park on a slope and don't let your dudes sleep behind vehicles. This was all a month before I got off active duty. Had to escort the body to somewhere Missouri, spend a week there and then escort the family for our battalion memorial service two weeks later. My entire last month of the army was dealing with this.
Commercially I fished in the Bering Sea. Around 82... 83 we're out in the middle of nowhere crabbing. Deckhand had his leg hit/smashed by a crab pot. Femur compound fracture. I'll never forget that.
It. Was. Brutal.
Took us more than several hours to reach Kodiak where he was treated then rushed of to Anchorage for trauma care. Lots of morphine helped him get him from sea to shore.
It. Was. Brutal.
Took us more than several hours to reach Kodiak where he was treated then rushed of to Anchorage for trauma care. Lots of morphine helped him get him from sea to shore.
You already know the answer to this. Only one where we were the first on the scene. I held the guys hand because I thought I would want someone to do that for mine. He survived. But it was tough to watch because blood was shooting out his throat. The other wrecks had officers on the way or arriving .
brother in-law is a careflite paramedic. he has all the stories.
Just to lighten the mood a lil...
Does Arkansas State 2008 home opener count?
Does Arkansas State 2008 home opener count?
We are traveling now. In the salt flats from Park City to Lake Tahoe we saw a suv flip. Sand was flying everywhere, so we slowed to a stop. The woman in the vehicle must not have been wearing her seatbelt. She had flown out an landed in the road. The semi in front stopped in time not to run over her. I assume she was dead because she didn't have a face. Many others stopped to help already, but I don't imagine she could have been alive. It was horrific.
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One day in 8th grade I got home from school. Neighbor called and said my sister had been in a wreck near my house. Got on my four wheeler and rode down there. When I got there, police tried to tell me to go home, but sensing it was bad I broke through the barricade and ran to her car. She was covered in blood, lifeless, and in very bad shape. She died on the way to the hospital.
ETA also saw a dude get his head smashed by a connex box offshore, but the first was much worse for me, for obvious reasons
Your sister or his? Either way super sad.
FAT SEXY said:
Starring some of these posts feels weird...
power thru it
Worst I've seen was the aftermath of a semi and a motorcycle. The body was covered, but the detached leg was not close enough to be covered by the tarp. I have anxiety now every time I'm near a motorcycle on the road.
Mine. 16 years old
In Saudi I had a car blow by me going about 120ish. A quarter mile ahead of me he lost control and his vehicle started flipping. I kept driving. Not about to stop for some stupid local and probably get blamed for it.
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Mine. 16 years old
Im so sorry. That must have been horrible to see....
Wasn't great. Had some pretty profound lasting effects, mostly because the other driver was my algebra teacher for the rest of the year.
That being said I probably still wouldn't have let it keep me from competing in the olympics
That being said I probably still wouldn't have let it keep me from competing in the olympics
When I lived in China seeing pedestrians mowed down by cars was almost a weekly occurrence.
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When I lived in China seeing pedestrians mowed down by cars was almost a weekly occurrence.
Well, i mean... asian drivers ...
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#histag
My daughter lives there and drives a scooter when not walking or talking a didi. I would not want to be on the road.
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Trapped people and fire is something I have experienced more than once in my life and I will be extremely glad if it never happens again. The sights, sounds, and smells stay with you forever.
The last call I ever went on as a volunteer firefighter was similar. A Union Pacific deuce and a half got t-boned and driven over by a 18 wheeler hauling hazmat materials. By the time we got there, the deuce was was
Completely engulfed in flames. The 18 wheeler cab was on fire but the driver was out and safe
My dad and I worked on the deuce to extinguish the flames. Once it was safe, I went in for survivors. I saw four men cooked to a crisp still in their seatbelts. I puked for an hour and to this day when I see a fire that isn't a bbq, I flash back to it. That was my last call. Couldn't do it again.
tandy miller said:
Wasn't great. Had some pretty profound lasting effects, mostly because the other driver was my algebra teacher for the rest of the year.
That being said I probably still wouldn't have let it keep me from competing in the olympics
Saw plenty as an medic on an ambulance. The one that led to me leaving that area of medicine was a bad rollover. Driver was pinned and was gonna have to be cut out. Backseat passenger was a toddler that was ejected (no carseat).
Toddler was DOA and they took her to the ambulance. I was able to get into the car and hold the mothers hand and talk to her while they cut her out. She had really bad leg injuries and was losing a ton of blood, but I couldn't get down there.. She kept asking about her kid and I kept assuring her we were taking care of her daughter. I refused to tell this lady her daughter was gone and have that be her last thoughts. We prayed for a bit, but she was unconscious as we got her out and gone by the time we got to the ER.
That still wakes me up on rare occasions.
Toddler was DOA and they took her to the ambulance. I was able to get into the car and hold the mothers hand and talk to her while they cut her out. She had really bad leg injuries and was losing a ton of blood, but I couldn't get down there.. She kept asking about her kid and I kept assuring her we were taking care of her daughter. I refused to tell this lady her daughter was gone and have that be her last thoughts. We prayed for a bit, but she was unconscious as we got her out and gone by the time we got to the ER.
That still wakes me up on rare occasions.
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