Disaster Visits My Place
Hey.
One of our neighbors (who is also the lay leader at my parents' church) wrecked his car in a particularly spectacular fashion this morning just before 10AM local time. This happened right in front of our house. He survived, and was the only person in the car. Current theory is that he had a diabetic fit and lost control of the car, which tagged our mailbox, hit the drainage ditch and went airborne over one of Mom's gardens. It finally whacked a power pole and came to rest on its roof. The power was out for us for about half an hour. (The break in the pole was 8 to 10 feet above the ground!) Mom was using her computer at the time but it seems to be fine now.
I was in bed when the accident happened, half-awake. I heard it happen and I hadn't been scared like this for several years.
We were lucky that nobody was in the way and my folks weren't working in the garden, which they had been doing every day this week. This was bad but could have been atrociously worse.
I close with advice:
1) Use your safety belts. This driver had and if he hadn't, he'd be badly hurt or dead now.
2) Don't speed. It looks like he had been driving too fast for the physical characteristics of the road. I happened to witness another accident like this one years ago and speed was a contributing factor to it as well.
3) Take care of your health.
FP
One of our neighbors (who is also the lay leader at my parents' church) wrecked his car in a particularly spectacular fashion this morning just before 10AM local time. This happened right in front of our house. He survived, and was the only person in the car. Current theory is that he had a diabetic fit and lost control of the car, which tagged our mailbox, hit the drainage ditch and went airborne over one of Mom's gardens. It finally whacked a power pole and came to rest on its roof. The power was out for us for about half an hour. (The break in the pole was 8 to 10 feet above the ground!) Mom was using her computer at the time but it seems to be fine now.
I was in bed when the accident happened, half-awake. I heard it happen and I hadn't been scared like this for several years.
We were lucky that nobody was in the way and my folks weren't working in the garden, which they had been doing every day this week. This was bad but could have been atrociously worse.
I close with advice:
1) Use your safety belts. This driver had and if he hadn't, he'd be badly hurt or dead now.
2) Don't speed. It looks like he had been driving too fast for the physical characteristics of the road. I happened to witness another accident like this one years ago and speed was a contributing factor to it as well.
3) Take care of your health.
FP