Yesterday I was driving in Cleveland, when I came upon an accident that had just happened....no police yet, no ambulance....people were trying to navigate through the scene, when I came through and realized there was a dead man laying 3 feet from my truck. Apparently he and his elderly wife were entering the freeway and their car rolled down an embankment where both passengers were ejected and killed...the car on it's roof wheels still turning...

It took me a few minutes to process the scene, in that this man was driving, when all of a sudden his car was out of control....rolling down a hill then he was airborne, thrown across 4 lanes of VERY heavy taffic (maybe 100 feet) and killed. Within seconds, it was all over.... I can't get the image of his lifeless body out of my mind....

In a blink of an eye.....without any time to process what was happening..his life...his wife's life....over...I was really shaken by this...have you ever seen anything that really haunts you.....?

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Years ago, on a weekend about 2:30 a.m., I was driving out of downtown Chicago onto an expressway. Ahead of me right before the ramp, I could see a car off to the side that was obviously just in an accident. As I began to slow down, to see if I could help, police & ambulance lights appeared in my rear-wiew mirror.
Figurin' that there was nothing I could do other than get in the way, I decided to continue driving.
As I passed the vehicle, I could see the figure of the driver brokenly slumped on the steering wheel, silohetted against the shattered remains of the windshield.
I'm sure I felt the same reaction you had in your situation.

Whilst In Korea, I was being driven back to my hotel, and I saw an accident. A young guy.. maybe 19-22 skidded off his motorbike, without helmet and had serious head injuries. There was blood pouring all over the motorway and I saw his body convulse and the life pour out of him.

Nobody stopped.
Nobody helped.

Just cars slowed down to watch.
There was no ambulance.

I looked back, horrified as we passed.

I asked the Korean guy I was with, what can we do.

He laughed, and said it happens so often.

I was so angry at him, that he had so little regard for human life.

I had to go out for a meal after and was sick to the stomach at this guy I was with still laughing at my reaction, that I ended up shouting at him and giving him a telling off.

I will always remember that young guy, dying on his own, wondering whether his Mum or g/f or whoever, would pick up the phone to be told their loved one was killed.

Too many to mention...

I watched a girl get hit by a van. I was sitting in the left turn lane, waiting, and I glanced over to my left and saw this girl trying to run across the street. She was coming towards my car, and a van nailed her and threw her into the air. She hit the ground behing me and was screaming, I got on the phone for 911, but I was sacred to turn around and see what condition she was in. The whole time I was doing the police report her screaming was grossing me out. I guess she just broke some bones, but she had this posessed look on her face like she was in shock.

Another time I was on the freeway coming home from school. It was dark out, and the cars in front me me slowed down real fast. I'm a speed demon with a short temper when driving, so I started MFing them and was just about to pass them, when I saw why they slowed down. Some young guy was laying in the middle of the freeway face down and had apparently just been hit. There were several cars pulled over up ahead. I tried calling for help, but they said they already had an ambulance on the way, so I kept driving.

When I was real young, I was sitting on my grandparent's front porch and some lady was walking her puppy down the street. Some guy on a motorcycle came riding down the road, and for whatever reason, the dog darted out across the street right in front of the motorcycle and got ran over. It literally popped like a water balloon when it got hit.

Yes. Her name is Candie and she's my ex-wife.

jerseykrs said:

when I was really young about 5 I was standing on the front lawn at my uncle's house when I heard this really loud motorcycle noise. It was coming right at us-all the kids outside--when he swerved and then lost control and slid. He was screaming as he slid right under my dad's car, his head hit the back tires and spurted blood. when the ambulance and the tow truck came I watched as they lifted the car and he was stuck to it they couldn't get it off of him and he screamed and screamed while they cut away at the car.

later when I was in high school I went to school with his daughters, they said that he never was the same, had brain damage, his leg was all cut up and shortened because of all the surgeries. they were amazed that I saw and remember the accident that shaped their lives so much, I just kept saying he screamed and screamed, I had never heard a man scream like that before.

nakedpianoplayer said:

I'm glad my name ain't 'Candie'...!!

This thread haunts me ... I wish I hadn't clicked on it now.

The mother of a very good friend had an accident standing next to her car, talking to me, in my street, in front of my door. A bus appeared, she disappeared and I heard the most terrifying scream ever. When I looked up I saw her leg was gone.

When the police came they refused to clean the street. Her ex-husband had to come with a shovel to take the remains of her leg of the street.

I start shivering when I write this.

I was 15 and it was the weekend. The people across the street were having a party. A mother came over to ask if we had seen her 4 year old daughter. We hadn't. So the neighborhood kids scoured the neighborhood for her and the mom jumped in a pickup with some people from the party and went to look on the major blvd at the end of our street.

I told the kids to check the pool and went looking for her in the neighborhood. The kids said they checked the pool and she was not there. So I come back home and tell my mom we didn't find her and the other parents were still out on the blvd and we hear this blood curdling scream. We ran outside and the friend of the mom, who's daughter was missing, was coming out of her garage soaking wet with the limp girl in her arms. The baby was in the pool. It has always haunted me that I didn't check the pool myself.

So my stepdad runs over and starts giving the girl mouth to mouth and CPR. The woman was on the phone with 911 crying and giving them directions. The paramedics and firemen showed up and took over for my stepdad and a few minutes later the woman coming back from the blvd ran over and was yelling "has anybody seen my baby?" and she came into the circle of people and looked down at her dead daughter and just walked away asking "has anybody seen my baby?". She was in total denial.

She kept walking down the street becoming hysterical screaming if anyone had seen her baby and hef friend ran after her saying the paramedics were trying to revive her and the woman just looked at her friend and asked her if she had seen her baby. She kept telling her it was her baby with the paramedics and she just looked at her with blank eyes and kept walking asking that question. She turned the corner of the house and just collapsed to the ground screaming and crying.

That was the most haunting, most sad thing I have ever seen

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i haven't seen it happen in front of me but i play out what must have happened like a slow motion movie in my head and in my dreams


moral of the story... wear your seatbelts people!!

ken