holy....

[CAP1]

today two kids i go to school with got in a car accident immediatly after they left. both of them were transported immediatly almost an hour away doing the pseed limit to a level one trauma center. rumor has it one of them passed, and clearly the second is in critical condition. last year we lost two kids to car accidents from my school. scary stuff.

sorry to hear about this. it's always hard to lose friends.

[CAP1]

Ask the Sheriff to have the wreck towed and then dumped in the middle of the entrance to the student parking lot for a couple weeks, IMHO...


Condolences to your friends and classmates Mason, hope it turns out that nobody got killed.

here in south jersey, quite a few of the schools do that on their own. usually around prom time....but i've seen them at other "drinking" holidays.
 the car doesn't necessarily need to be a wreck from a dui, or a student accident....just a badly smashed car, that will get the kids to thinking.


 

[CAP1]

rumor has it one was a concusion, the other is in ICU... the thing i dont understand though is rather simple.... if i understood it right (my brothers ex is best friends with the guy who towed the vehicle and she still lives with us) the tow truck driver couldnt tow the vehicle because they were waiting on a coroner. why would they wait on the coroner to arrive if the only sustained injuries were a concussion and one was shipped to a level 1 trauma center and hour away.

nothin is making sense...  

that doesn't make sense, unless there was another vehicle involved, and one of those occupants died.

 when i used to tow, when we got to an accident scene, our job was to get the vehicles out of the way ASAP, and get the road cleaned well enough for traffic to pass. i've never been to a fatal though.

also....if you need an ear..........i gots 2 of em.

[Flipperk]

My old school district does the same thing every year at the high schools.

Except it is a little more elaborate.


Beginning of the school day at every high school, a kid is called to the office every 15 minutes and dressed in full black, white face paint and black eye makeup. They are told not to interact with any student, but go about school as normal. They represent a teen driver dying from drunk driving.

Then at 1:00pm all the students are brought out into the parking lot where two vehicles are placed smashed together, and several students are laying out around the wreck covered in blood. The local fire department and EMS come in and carry the students off in stretchers. One year I remember a lifeline flying in and landing in the parking lot.

After this is said and done, the students in black and makeup are lined up behind the wreck and stare back at the student crowd as the principle gives a quick speech about drunk driving.

[Maverick]

Driving is the most common activity we do on a regular basis that has a high potential for being fatal to you or anyone even near the roadway. The question to be asked is not why so many die in collisions (note the vast majority are not "accidents" but examples of negligence) but why so many live through them? Think of the forces involved and you will see what I mean. All it takes is a second or less of inattention and thousands of pounds of metal with massive kinetic energy is now going to rearrange itself and anything in it's path.

Every day we drive vehicles past each other with only a very few feet of distance between opposing lanes and there is nothing solid to prevent the vehicles from crossing into each others path.

At 35 MPH, common in town speed, you are covering almost 50' per second. Add into that another vehicle at the same speed and the distance between them to be covered in a second is inches shy of 100' or if you like more than 33 yards. At 45 MPH you are traveling more than 66 fps. Think about the calculations you perform every time you look to see if you can pull out into traffic form a parking lot or side street. You also do it without thinking the problem through on a conscious level but rely on your distance estimation (something people are notoriously bad at), speed estimation and how fast your vehicle will move up to speed in the correct location assuming everything about it works properly with no delay.

We all tend to dismiss the fact that it is a dangerous activity and many on the road are not paying attention to what they are doing. Texting, talking on the phone, arranging objects in the car and even reading novels while driving. I've seen all of those activities being conducted while the person was driving down the road in town heavy traffic.

[Babalonian]

rumor has it one was a concusion, the other is in ICU... the thing i dont understand though is rather simple.... if i understood it right (my brothers ex is best friends with the guy who towed the vehicle and she still lives with us) the tow truck driver couldnt tow the vehicle because they were waiting on a coroner. why would they wait on the coroner to arrive if the only sustained injuries were a concussion and one was shipped to a level 1 trauma center and hour away.

nothin is making sense...   

If the accident is a fatality or potential-fatality related scene, it's probabley just for being thourough in the event the case may cross that bridge from a moving vehicle violation in the traffic department to a homicide case.  Other likely reasons are maybe one of the passengers left something behind when the majority of them got whisked off to the hospital or a hazardous amount of bodily fluids (too much for safe transportation) was still in the wreck.  Maybe your coroner is soley responcible for recovering DNA/biological evidence from crime scenes in your area.  It depends on what the areas of responcibility are for your county and it's coroner mostly.  Otherwise I wouldn't worry if they say nobody was killed, accidents can still be pretty... well... messy.


Old saying my grandpa taught me before I started to drive that I always remember:  If everybody on the road was aware and always assuming that everyone else is an idiot about to do the stupidest thing possible, there would be no accidents.

[MaSonZ]

Bab, i like that saying, and I feel as if its true.

about the coroner, i dont knwo his exact responsibility in my area (other then the obvious). never thought about the responsibilities you mentioned.

in the past year ive seen two patients pretty mangled who would make someone toss theyre cookies if they werent expecting the worst possible scenario.