OT- ACCADENT ON I-95

papabear · Post by **papabear** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:00 pm

I almost cried when I saw this picture. It is absolutely gut wrenching. It shows the importance of being properly strapped in.
A friend sent this photo of a horrible highway accident . The picture may be kind of hard to take for some of you. If you look closely you can see what appear to be some survivors of the accident still in the wreckage. Although the picture is quite graphic, it makes you realize how quickly our loved ones can be taken from us.
My friend stayed on the scene to help and even though he performed mouth to mouth on quite a few of them, none apparently survived.

Jason_W · Post by **Jason_W** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:02 pm

Grolsch is really good stuff too.

Such a tragedy.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:05 pm

What an awful tragedy!

MikeS. · Post by **MikeS.** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:19 pm

What a shameful waste of good beer.

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:38 pm

If ever I saw alcohol abuse this is it. how sad.

.Jim.

Wes · Post by **Wes** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:53 pm

That is sad. I always liked beer that you had to chew on to get down your throat.

HEAD0001 · Post by **HEAD0001** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:58 pm

I saw a truck load of Jack Daniel's wrecked on I-65 just north of Bowling Green, KY once. The trailer busted open in the median strip. There was bottles of Jack everywhere. You should have seen the people who stopped and was picking up bottles of Jack. A Trooper was there and did not even try to stop the people from picking up the Jack. I guess he figured the public would clean up the mess pretty fast. I was surprised to see only a few bottles busted. Tom.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:09 pm

I'd seen that some months back, being the a___ retentive type, I closely examined the photo and determined that the accident occured in Europe. Prety much nationwide we use a yellow line for the left shoulder, a white line for a "fog" line and a dotted line for a lane divider or center line except on two lane roads in areas where it not recommended to pass. And in those locations it's a double line with the solid being on the side that's advised not to pass. 'Sides, the license plate were of the wrong dimensions to be US.

So, I didn't worry about it too much. Just hope it wasn't Germany or Ireland, nor near any population density, they would've rioted!

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:40 pm

True story; in 1978 when I was eighteen a couple of buddies and myself headed off to the mountains of North Carolina for a week of camping in the mountains after our last day of high school. We headed out at midnight in an old 4-door '68 Malibu. About an hour into our voyage we came upon a wreck. To our delight, a Pabst Blue Ribbon truck had swerved to avoid hitting a deer and turned over in the road. There were cans of PBR everywhere, much like the picture. Well, all the camping gear and the spare tire got shoved into the back seat and us three boys filled that massive trunk to the brim with as many beers as we could and still be able to close the lid. We were back on the road with the rear shocks completely bottomed out and drove that way the rest of the night and into the next morning until we arrived at our destination on the NC Virgina border. Ah, the follies of youth. That was a GREAT week!