Author Topic: Prayers Etc (Read 1721 times)

FUNKED1 · « **on:** July 27, 2004, 08:41:07 PM »

Please give some for my buddy's daughter. He got laid off last week and now this. She's 15 or 16.

Dinger · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2004, 10:05:52 PM »

passworded news site.

I-680 crash kills four

Girl survives grisly Pleasant Hill accident

By Kelli Phillips

CONTRA COSTA TIMES

PLEASANT HILL - Four people were killed and a girl critically injured in an accident on Interstate 680 when a car was torn in half after slamming into the back of a parked moving van Monday night.

Around 7:15 p.m., a 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier hit a moving van that was stopped on the right shoulder of southbound Interstate 680, just north of the Treat Boulevard exit.

Witnesses said the Cavalier was driving erratically when the driver suddenly lost control and spun into the back of the 1999 California New York Express moving van, police said.

Three men and one woman in the Cavalier were killed instantly. A second female passenger was ejected from the car and thrown under the moving van.

Matt Randolph, 18, was in his back yard on Esther Drive, which backs up to Contra Costa Boulevard and I-680, when he heard the crash.

"It was the biggest crashing sound you can imagine, with glass breaking and metal scraping," Randolph said.

Randolph ran with his father to the accident scene, where he climbed the retaining wall onto the freeway. After seeing no signs of life in the passengers in the car, Randolph saw the girl laying under the van.

"I climbed under the van and she was barely breathing," he said. "I tried to talk to her, ask her name, but she couldn't talk. I just grabbed her hand and told her to stay with me until the paramedics got there."

The unidentified juvenile girl was flown to John Muir Medical Center in critical condition but was expected to survive, a CHP spokesman said.

Police say the 27-year-old driver of the moving van had pulled over to check the strap on the back door and had just gotten back into the vehicle when it was hit by the Cavalier.

The driver of the van and his two passengers were not injured in the accident.

California Highway Patrol Officer Tom Maguire said it was unknown if drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident. The cause is under investigation.

The names and ages of the victims were unknown. Autopsies are scheduled for today

JB73 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 27, 2004, 10:10:56 PM »

dude sorry to hear.

prayers tonight

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Hawklore · « **Reply #3 on:** July 27, 2004, 10:12:58 PM »

Indeed, I will pray for her and family.

Octavius · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2004, 10:23:19 PM »

Damn I hope they weren't drinking. I learned my lesson after screwing up the suspension and hitting a curb. 3 deaths is a hell of a price to pay for stupidity. Hope she pulls through.

NUKE · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2004, 10:23:30 PM »

That's horrible Funked, so sorry to hear that. She's in my prayers.

midnight Target · « **Reply #6 on:** July 27, 2004, 11:27:24 PM »

Same here.

AKIron · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2004, 11:47:26 PM »

Sometimes life is a real kick in the head. Will remember them Funked.

Thrawn · « **Reply #8 on:** July 28, 2004, 12:42:33 AM »

Sorry for the bad news funked. I hope it turns out okay.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 28, 2004, 01:21:19 AM »

I shoulda mentioned that she is the one who is alive. She has a head injury and a lot of upper body injuries, but she's responsive and they think she will recover.
And I think it will come out that alcohol was involved. Three 20-ish guys getting HS freshmen girls drunk...

J_A_B · « **Reply #10 on:** July 28, 2004, 02:32:56 AM »

Yet another real world demonstration of the "safety" of little tin can cars.

Indeed, if there were 5 of them in a Cavalier, the car was probably in excess of its weight limit anyway which certainly wouldn't have helped it any.

J_A_B

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 28, 2004, 05:34:40 AM »

Hitting a moving van square in the back at 70 mph plus is going to be game over in anything smaller than an M1 tank.

Curval · « **Reply #12 on:** July 28, 2004, 06:00:52 AM »

Sorry to hear this. Thinking about her and her family.

Badger · « **Reply #13 on:** July 28, 2004, 06:08:37 AM »

Sad .... you have my prayers my friend ..

I hope it turns out well for her funked....

It's definitely going to alter the way she views (and handles) the rest of her life. There will be lots of emotional scars.

Regards,
Badger

J_A_B · « **Reply #14 on:** July 28, 2004, 06:43:16 AM »

Funked, you missed my point entirely.

They might not have hit the truck at all if they were in a car that could actually cope with the weight of 5 people. A Cavalier can't; that car is a complete piece of crap. Immediate cause of the accident seems to be Failure to Control, and at highway speeds in small cars overloading or improper loading is a COMMON contributing factor in such accidents.

J_A_B