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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MaSonZ on September 19, 2011, 04:07:41 PM
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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.
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A kid was going through my schools parking lot listening to music and a car backed into him (Tall SUV) and ran him over, the person stopped after she felt a bump, they guy was taken to the hospital and last I heard he's back at school again
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Just went through a list with a buddy... 3 from my school, a teacher from my school and a kid from a nrghboring school
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Just went through a list with a buddy... 3 from my school, a teacher from my school and a kid from a nrghboring school
Lost to car accidents?!
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Sorry to hear it Mason
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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.
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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.
They do that before prom, they make a video of drunk driving (pretty cheesy cause its done by innocent lookin people) and they flip a junk car over and put it in front of the school to remind people to not get drunk
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last year at my middle school there was a drunk driver that hit a kid going home from school and he died not 5 minutes after getting to the hospital, i didnt even know that he went to the middle school because half the day he was at the elementary school. apparantly he was so far advanced in math he just had to walk down the street to get to the middle school for his class. who knew such an innocent stretch of road could turn so deadly in 3 seconds.
i wish your friends the best of luck as they recover mason, hope they pull through fine. :salute
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Lost to car accidents?!
yes. And mind you, I live in a farming community. Everyone knows everyone.
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I hope your friends recover.
The worst thing to have happened to my school:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/06/lancaster_teen_expected_to_ple.html
On the morning of May 12, 2007 Kreider allegedly entered the Haines' residence without force. All three victims died from stab wounds. The daughter, Maggie, escaped physical harm. She ran from the home and across the street to a neighbor who called 911 for help. Communication between the neighbor, the call taker at 911, and the dispatcher caused extreme unnecessary delay in police response to the "unknown disturbance". The official timeline notes that it took the first responding officer nearly 12 minutes to arrive from a distance of 4 miles, in the middle of the night with no traffic barriers. Police say this delay had no bearing on the survival of the victims.
The parents were found in their bedroom and Kevin was found at the opposite end of the upstairs hallway on the floor outside his bedroom. According to police reports, bloody shoeprints go away from Kevin's body and enter the parents' bedroom, and then to the common upstairs bathroom where a supposed shoeprint was found on the linoleum in front of the sink. Police presume the murderer attempted to clean up at the sink as blood was also found therein. Bloody shoeprints appeared on lower carpeted steps as the perpetrator exited. Blood transfer was also found on the rear sliding glass door.
The law enforcement investigation began around 2:40 a.m. on May 12, 2007. The victims were declared dead shortly after 5 a.m. by deputy county coroners. Autopsies were performed two days later. The day after the murders bloodhounds tracked "a strong scent of fear" along a path that led down the hill to PA Route 501 and north to an ice cream/fast food restaurant where the scent vanished. Police presumed the perpetrator had a vehicle waiting and used it to escape. Upon Kreider's arrest all information associated with the bloodhounds was dismissed, as it did not match law enforcement's new theory. The police explanation was simple: "the dogs made a mistake."
Police said Kreider was a friend of victim Kevin Haines (16), a fellow sophomore at Manheim Township High School. Kreider pleaded guilty to three counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without parole on June 17, 2008
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yes. And mind you, I live in a farming community. Everyone knows everyone.
I'm terribly sorry :(
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It's never easy I've lost 9 of my friends
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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... :pray
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Really sorry to hear it Mason. I hope they turn out OK
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As much as I might sound like a sweetheart right now, most of the car accidents I see are caused by pedestrians not seeing or HEARING the cars. Take those iPods out of your ears, of If you're like me and need music, leave one out. I'm not saying it's ONLY the pedestrians fault, I'm saying there are ways you can avoid or prevent it from happening.
Still, wish those kids luck and a speedy recovery. :salute
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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.
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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.
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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... :pray
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.
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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.
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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.
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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... :pray
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.
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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.