i saw something fucked up today (update: she's OK)

namely, a pretty horrific accident.. I got there about 30 seconds after it happened..
A girl on a motorized scooter bike was pretty much crushed between her bike and the bottom of the rear of a large Pepsi delivery truck.. There was blood on the ground and she didn't look very comfortable at all.. I think she was having difficulty breathing, and I'm sure all of her ribs were crushed and who knows what else..
So there were a bunch of people running to the scene, including myself, and we tried to lift the truck off her a bit so someone could pull her out, but i'm sure the thing weighed like 10 tons, so we quickly opened the truck to dump all of the fucking crates of pepsi onto the sidewalk, and then we tried again but still couldn't get her out.
So fortunately, the police and paramedics got there a couple of minutes later, and then a firetruck, so I'm sure someone had a hydraulic pump or something...

but the whole thing was pretty surreal and disturbing.. I don't know if she survived, I'll have to check the news tomorrow.

Oh man, I know how that goes. I've been with my dad to fire calls and such when I was younger and I've seen similar things. It is in no way any kind of enjoying experience. I've seen people missing limbs and such...it turns the stomach and breaks the heart.

I was coming home once on a little sub-highway known as I-291 near manchester CT a few years back.

This road is NEVER congested, so I was suprised to find some one night.

As I creep slowly down the highway, a fleet of emergency service vehicles come into sight, then I saw two fire trucks about 10 feet or so apart, blocking most of the highway with a giant tarp drapped between them, blocking view of what was behind them.

Never a good sight. As I get past the trucks, I am tempted to try to look behind me to see If I can see anything, and I see a guys arm, lying on the highway. :yuck: No idea where the body was.

My off-ramp was about a half mile from the scene, and as I turn off, I get stuck behind a flatbed tow truck, which happened to be moving the car from the accident, totaly wrecked, and the driver's side was covered in blood :blank:

for the next month or so you could still see some of the aftermath on the highway, the tire tracks, the torn up hill the car hit and flipped over. There has been a makeshift roadside memorial there every year since.

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Originally Posted by johnk_

we quickly opened the truck to dump all of the fucking crates of pepsi onto the sidewalk

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I knew there had to be a use for Pepsi. If I was ever injured by anything with a Pepsi logo, I'd kill every person I ever saw drinking that shit.

The sugar content alone could have kept her awake until the ambulance arrived.

That's rough. Good man for helping out.

That is really sad and made me wince reading it. :( Good on you for helping and keep us updated if u can.

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs...421006/-1/news

It's good you came to help johnk_ A lot of people just stare at shit like that these days. Hope she pulls through.

here's hoping she makes it - that story is awful