Rural car wreck

[robbyr]

Ruffdog I wondered about that also. My first thought was he dozed off, ran off edge of road, and overcorrected. But he never appeared to slow down. Either in my memory or in the fact there's no skidmarks. So I wondered if he might have had a heart attack and his foot mash on accelerator. He was a pretty large fella. I'm 230 lbs and he was a good bit bigger than me. The other odd thing is.... if there's no skid marks then what did I hear?

 

[MossRoad]

I knew a local dairy farmer for 25-30 years. He lived a couple miles from our rural place, but I met him through friends and fished on his pond. A couple years ago, he crashed his truck into a tree, died instantly, narrowly missing a house near our property. No skid marks. Lots of speculation. Turned out it was a medical condition. 9:30 in the morning heading home from town. Gone in a blink.

 

[Gunny]

I had a friend that had an elliptic seizure while driving, witnesses said that his truck accelerated quickly above the speed limit, wobbled across the center line a couple of times, then ran off the road and centered up on a large tree, killing him. The coroner said that during the seizure, he must have mashed the accelerator to the floor and had little to no control over the vehicle. I'd never known of him having any elliptic fits during my friendship with him, so stuff does and can happen.

While with the Sheriff's office, we worked too darned many personal injury accidents, most where caused by stupidity on someone's part, very few were attributed to mechanical failure.

 

[robbyr]

I had a friend that had an elliptic seizure while driving, witnesses said that his truck accelerated quickly above the speed limit, wobbled across the center line a couple of times, then ran off the road and centered up on a large tree, killing him. The coroner said that during the seizure, he must have mashed the accelerator to the floor and had little to no control over the vehicle. I'd never known of him having any elliptic fits during my friendship with him, so stuff does and can happen.

While with the Sheriff's office, we worked too darned many personal injury accidents, most where caused by stupidity on someone's part, very few were attributed to mechanical failure.

Will never know but sure sounds like you described what I saw.

 

[coldsteelva]

Ruffdog I wondered about that also. My first thought was he dozed off, ran off edge of road, and overcorrected. But he never appeared to slow down. Either in my memory or in the fact there's no skidmarks. So I wondered if he might have had a heart attack and his foot mash on accelerator. He was a pretty large fella. I'm 230 lbs and he was a good bit bigger than me. The other odd thing is.... if there's no skid marks then what did I hear?

You likely heard the vehicle yawing across the road and dragging (rather than rolling) the tires along the pavement. Also traction control would have been applying the brakes to individual wheels attempting to correct the uncorrectable.

 

[ovrszd]

I had a friend that caused an accident. He was double the speed limit in town and veered into oncoming traffic. I'm sure a whole bunch of experts would know what happened and would have multiple stories to back them up. In my friends case, he had a heart attack and he was probably dead before the crash. Also, my cousins first wife died at 25 in a movie theater. She was very fit, ate good, not overweight, and died of a heart attack. They also said she was dead before she hit the floor.

Unless we know the FACTS of this crash and the report from the medical examiner, we can not speculate on the cause.

I agree. And it's rude behavior toward the family.

 

[stuckmotor]

I must pass five crosses in makeshift memorials in the thirteen mile trip to the farm. The road is a dangerous place.

 

[ovrszd]

I must pass five crosses in makeshift memorials in the thirteen mile trip to the farm. The road is a dangerous place.

I lived on a very dangerous rural paved state hiway for 40 years. It's littered with crosses. I took this pic out my shop window in 2007. Killed one. Permanently disabled another.

 

[Liquidsilver]

Richard, can you tell me which highway that is in your picture? It looks familiar.

 

[ovrszd]

Richard, can you tell me which highway that is in your picture? It looks familiar.

Hwy N. East of Eagleville about 4 miles. Goes East to Cainsville.