Based on thread below - Have you ever seen a fatal accident!

[Pin Wizard]

Didn't see one happen in the process, but have passed by what was left.

As a kid, a car underneath an 18 wheeler. Roof completely crushed. That was on 80 around Hope, NJ.

Several months ago, apparently an SUV jumped the grassy area between the two way traffic and landed ON a car going in the opposite direction.

Just this morning, there was a car on the Interstate that must have flipped or rolled from the looks of it. Even the back end was crushed. Laying on it's driver side. No other vehicles involved!

 

[IwasatWDWforamonth]

I watched a house that was on fire only to find out the next morning that 5 people died in it.
This probably doesnt count but, back when we had the old satielite dish, (the ones the size of a hot tub) they had news that showed everything including watching live footage of a train accident, where the cars sitting by the train were on fire and you could see the people burning in them. that is a terrible memory.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Not me, but DH has. He once drove by and saw body bags.

 

[Jynohn]

When my sister was about 5 years old she was driving with my dad when a man jumped out in front of the car (trying to commit suicide). My dad managed to avoid him, but the car behind him didn't

The memory still haunts my sister to this day. So sad that not only did this man take his own life, but he chose to do it in such a way as to involve innocent people...

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Not sure if it was fatal, but i just saw an accident this morning..I was driving down the highway, in the middle lane and there were workers in the median...a lady in the left lane hit the big orange cone thingy and then got hit from behind...i was right there--saw the ladies head go up, hit the steering wheel, and go back...i thought she was going to swerve into my car, glass went flying everywhere, even over on my car...i dont know if anyone was hurt or anything ,but i was shaking for awhile

 

[JimB.]

I've only seen one happen, but in my job I have seen the aftermath of dozens......

 

[kbkids]

My DH is a train engineer, and I'm amazed at the number of people who choose to take their life by purposely getting in the way of a train. Luckily, DH has never been "at the wheel" during one of these, but he has had to get off the train and walk back to check on one for another train. He's never told me what it looked like (don't want to know), but he says he'll never forget it. Basically, the guy was lying down and chose to sit up as the train went over him.

 

[noodles]

This happened on the fourth of July 2001. We were driving home from my BIL's party. We were on a two lane highway that is know for fatal accidents. We were headed Westbound and a pick-up truck in front of us crossed the center line and crashed head on into a smaller car. The truck rolled and landed upside down in a ditch and the impact of the crash tore off the front of the compact car and spun it around into a burm on the side of the road.

In our car was myself, DH, DD6, DD2 and DS 3 weeks. DH went to help the people in the compact car. The driver died instantly, his sister in the back seat was hurt but not life threatening. Her boyfriend was in the front passenger seat and my DH said he was making a gurgling noise that still haunts him today. They couldn't reach him from the front so they had to climb in through the back to try and help him. DH sat with him until the aid units arrived. The last update we had on him was one month after the accident and he was still in a coma.

I went to the truck so see what I could do. The driver of the truck was not seriously hurt. Beer bottles were everywhere in the cab of the truck and he smelled like he had been drinking for days. We later found out that this was his 12th drunk driving offense. I was so angry when that news was made public. The man he killed had 10 young children. Those kids do not have their father today because this man choose to drive drunk that night.

 

[jfulcer]

Going to work about 2 years ago, a van behind me was rear ended while we were at a stoplight and the car that rear ended him smashed into the side of my car.

I jumped out and ran over to the car that hit me to see if he was ok, but he wasn't wearing a seatbelt and had smashed the windshield and dashboard quite badly. They airlifted him to the hospital and he died shortly later.

Another driver and I were afraid to try to move him even though we thought he was not breathing. Having had a grandfather die of a broken neck after a similar accident, I was paralyzed with fear at further injuring this man by trying to do CPR in some way.

I still am haunted by that, and it's hard for me to drive through the intersection still. Could I have done more? I wrestle with that occasionally.

 

[Nutsy]

Yes2 of them...........not seen them happen, but came by shortly after. The first one was the worst tho...a young engaged couple only a couple of years older than I was at the time. It was at night, but I just knew they were gone. Second was an elderly gentleman trying to geta cross a highway in his car, but got hit by another car and the impact killed him. That intersection was closed off soon after that accident and you can no longer enter the highway from there.

 

[ilovepcot]

The most horrible accident I've seen was the one where a young girl on drugs ran head on into a semi. It happened on a bridge and both the semi and car went off the bridge and tumbled together to the ground below. I saw the tangled mess shortly after the accident happened. Also saw the body of the young girl in the ER a short time later when I reported for work. I had trouble sleeping for 2 weeks. Every time I shut my eyes, all I could see was that poor drug induced girl who died needlessly. There's no need to be graphic here but I will say that for a nurse who had become accustomed to seeing very horrific things in the ER, this was *by far* the worst ever! Remains so to this day.

 

[mrFDNY]

Hi all,
I have seen hundreds.All very sad,but the sadder thing is how quick we the helper become immune to these things.I remember my first one a very bad one and how i felt so terrible,2 young kids in thier teens driving in a convertable with the top down, drinking and speeding and they rolled the car.Both were messed up bad and died.Now and days they don't even make me flinch anymore.I have seen some pretty sad,horrible things and they don't even bother me at all.I guess you either get used to it quick or go crazy seeing all the stuff we do.

 

[floridafam]

My Mom saw a woman get decapitated in a car accident many years ago.

She said she will never forget it.

 

[Martha7]

We came upon an accident shortly after it happened a few years ago, when we flew into Fresno, and were driving up to Yosemite. I gave my DH directions to avoid the intersection altogether, but he insisted on going right by, and we (including my two teenage DS's) saw a Grandmother, deceased behind the steering wheel, and two screaming boys still OK, but in the car, trapped. The firemen were there with the jaws of life, trying to get the kids out. It looked like another car had been coming at them and somehow hit the median, went airborn, and landed on top of their car. It didn't look like they could have gotten out of the way. I was really haunted by it, and looked at the paper the next few days until the obituary appeared. Sure enough, she had been the grandmother. There was no mention of what caused the accident, or of the other driver, elsewhere in the paper. I've always wondered if seeing that scene made my DS's more careful drivers. I know those boys (they looked to be around 8 and 10) will forever be scarred by the trauma.