http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/objec...ronicle/pictures/2003/07/15/ba_fatalcar04.jpg About fifteen years ago I think where 610 and 59 intersect going north on 610, I can remember seeing sparks above my car wondering, is my car on fire? (It was about 2 am) I look up and I see a truck on it's side, scraping its cab against the guardrail about three feet above me.
I didn't mean to make too much light of the situation, just noticed the car was crumpled and all the air bags had deployed. Something like that, it's just a roll of the dice, nothing can be done preventative except sit at home in our cocoons. A friend of mine works at a lawyer's office and a few years ago they had a case where a chain broke loose off a truck and the chain swung out at just the same time someone was passing him, and it killed the guy cause the level of the chain was the same as the windshield.
Well, I don't think either of us were reacting to what you said, I'm talking about the accident, those kids were young, who knows, they had many years ahead of them and then poof, no more. It's just a downer. And, from the police quotes, an open casket is out of the question. Gruesome deaths are also a downer.
Ugh. I've surprised we don't see more wrecks involving tow trucks. Those guys drive like maniacs trying to be the first on the scene of an accident so they can get the tow. Or maybe they want to cause more accidents and drum up some business. Or at least that's how it was when I lived in Houston. I don't see it so much here in Dallas.
