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LCSO34

04-06-2005, 09:33 PM

Got called to work a wreck for MHP today. One of their cars got ran over by a log truck.
http://www.mercurygallery.net/mmnet/data/500/2572DSC_2342-med.JPG (http://www.mercurygallery.net/mmnet/showphoto.php/photo/7849/size/big/password/8fa4d92b5f15331f9d28070d9cadc8 4a/sort/1/cat/last1)
See they don't burn

Anyway, I had been out there for about an hour, there was probaly no less than ten marked units out there for traffic control stretched back a mile. Slowing traffic down. Well I took a picture of one of there newer cars
http://www.mercurygallery.net/mmnet/data/500/2572DSC_2350-med.JPG (http://www.mercurygallery.net/mmnet/showphoto.php/photo/7850/size/big/password/8fa4d92b5f15331f9d28070d9cadc8 4a/sort/1/cat/last1)

About ten minutes after I took this photo one of the troopers starts yelling, well I looked up and saw a 18-wheeler sliding sideways down the highway towards me. I thought for minute (half second) that interesting maybe he will get it stopped, then maybe not, well I hesitated to see which side I wanted to break for. By this time he had hit on MHP unit and was pushing it forward, heading for a second. I ran and got off to the side as the second MHP unit was hit. Still sliding forward this mass of vehicles hit a Lauderdale County Unit. As it was sliding forward I took an "action photo" The whole mass stopped and the County unit kept rolling down a median 100ft deep.
http://www.mercurygallery.net/mmnet/data/500/2572DSC_2351-med.JPG (http://www.mercurygallery.net/mmnet/showphoto.php/photo/7851/size/big/password/8fa4d92b5f15331f9d28070d9cadc8 4a/sort/1/cat/last1)
The new car I had just taken a picture is the one on the right. Not a good day for Troop H

Driver of truck was DUI

Rider90

04-06-2005, 09:36 PM

I'm speechless...wow.

Joe Walsh

04-06-2005, 09:49 PM

WOW!!!! Everybody 'OK'??? :awe:

What was the total damage/destruction??...ONE CV in the original accident, then THREE more when the truck slammed into everybody??

P.S. You're a great photographer, as I would have either dropped my camera and ran when the 18 wheeler was bearing down on me....
or just stood there and watched, never thinking to use my camera.

LCSO34

04-06-2005, 09:55 PM

Everybody OK, 3 MHP units totaled, 1 ambulance rear damage, 1 Sheriff Unit heavy damage, 1 Sheriff Yukon side swiped and mirror damage, oh yeah before the big crash he swiped the Cheif Deputy's yukon half-mile back.

LCSO34

04-06-2005, 10:04 PM

http://www.wtok.com/

Go to "Interstate Wrecks" to see some news footage

Bluerauder

04-07-2005, 04:21 AM

P.S. You're a great photographer, as I would have either dropped my camera and ran when the 18 wheeler was bearing down on me....
or just stood there and watched, never thinking to use my camera.
That was my initial thought as well. Way to maintain your composure and get the evidence on film (digits??). :D

A DUI on an 18-wheeler in broad daylight is scary. I wonder how frequently this applies out there on our roads?? :dunno:

jgc61sr2002

04-07-2005, 03:05 PM

Petrograde

04-07-2005, 03:18 PM

A DUI on an 18-wheeler in broad daylight is scary. I wonder how frequently this applies out there on our roads?? :dunno:

no kidding! that's un-freakin-belivable! I hope that dumb ass never gets to drive again! :mad2:

IMAX

04-07-2005, 03:45 PM

Wow.......

djmcnary

04-07-2005, 06:35 PM

http://www.wtok.com/

Go to "Interstate Wrecks" to see some news footage
LCSO34...that you in the red shirt in the video, painting the scuff/debis marks on the road?

Doug

LCSO34

04-07-2005, 08:11 PM

No that's one of the MHP Accident Reconstruction guys, H-44 not sure his name. His car is the one that is in the front. He came up from farther south to work the original wreck on the first Trooper. I have sprayed a little paint in the last couple of years though.