I drive a lot. Today was the second time that I've been right behind a bad accident and stopped as one of the first to render aid. Today's was just as bad as the last one. What scares me is it happened seconds in front of me. I wasn't driving distracted and still, because it was dark, I nearly hit the car that was affected. Many other drivers did as well. Me and another guy stopped traffic so no one else did. I was going 75. It could have been bad. Luckily no one caused a pile up. Spoiler for some mild carnage...sorry ... Spoiler As an aside. Something weird happened during this accident that I can't explain. I was trying to assess the victim who was clearly in a bad way and unable to communicate. He did not make it. There was some slight movement at one point that was involuntary, so I began asking questions, like "can you tell me your name?" Etc. After asking two or three times, I got a response. Plain as day. "If anyone is talking to me, I cannot hear them." I could not see his face, but he wasn't in a way to communicate clearly, or much less, talk back coherently. I can't explain it, and I'm freaked out by it.
Blunt force trauma is the worst, pretty much impossible to save someone at that point, dude probably bled out from the seat belt catching him /aorta
Life is short enough even if you live to be 100, definitely be safe everyone- sorry you had to see that and be involved @EddieWasSnubbed
PSA: Don't check your phone while driving!!!!! Period. Don't do it! The last accident I had about 6 years ago was because I quickly checked an email while driving down I45 and rear-ended a car when the traffic stopped just on the other side of an overpass. Totally my fault and was super lucky nobody was hurt. Mythbusters did multiple tests on distracted driving. Using a phone is worse than drunk driving, handsfree or not. Conclusion #1: Talking on the phone handsfree is very dangerous. Conclusion #2: Talking on a phone is MORE dangerous than driving drunk.
Subjective to the amount of attention you can pay to multiple things at once. If a handsfree is worse then should you not even have a conversation with people in the car?
Distracted driving is only going to get worse, as the football-****ing monkeys at the car companies have decided that nobody needs actual buttons and dials (amazingly simple to operate without taking your eyes off the road) and instead would like a larger version of our cellphone mounted on the dash to control everything inside the vehicle.
That would make a good Mythbuster test. My intuition is: #1: You don't need to push a button to talk to your passenger or look at screen to answer/hang-up. (Never mind that passengers don't go "ding" to make you look and take your eyes off the road). #2: Passengers have context clues and can shut up when needed. Better yet, passengers can even help you point out road conditions. #3: In-person conversation is more natural without audio breaking up or delays, background noise like dogs barking, or dropped calls all of which requires extra brain processing to comprehend. That said, if you get into a heated argument with your passenger, then I'm sure that is just as bad.
Agreed x2!!! It's why virtual keyboards suck. To accentuate that point, our F & J keys even have bumps on them so we don't have to look. My favorite remote control is my Tivo remote. The shape of it positions my hand so I hold it uniformly every time. Then, many of the keys have different sizes and shapes. With that, I just need to find one or two buttons on the remote, I can find just about any button I need without looking.
I miss my TIVO remote, I know exactly what you're talking about. My new one from Spectrum just isn't designed as well.
That wouldn't be the first story I've heard about people saying strange, almost involuntary things moments after an accident. It was reported that after comedian Sam Kinison's fatal accident, his last words were "But why??...Oh ok," almost as if he was having a conversation with somebody. Sounds like in your story somebody may have been speaking on behalf of this man.
It freaks me out to even think about it. I don't know how he could have even said that and had it have been audible and easy to understand. It blows my mind. Also, he was still in the vehicle. Was not ejected. But as a second PSA in this thread wear your seat belts people. This is the second accident. I've been one of the first people to respond to on the side of a highway in the last two and a half years. In both cases the drivers passed away and we're not wearing a seatbelt. The first case was a mother driving with her two children that were under 3 years old. Very very sad. Makes me sad to think about them.
