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I had to deal with a 3 car head on accident this past November the day before Thanksgiving in a school crosswalk. The school board hurriedly installed a crosswalk and ceased busing in our development rather than layoff one of 12 vice principals. A few students crossed through the walk about a minute and a half before an SUV rear ended a Dodge Neon stopped at the crosswalk, forcing the Neon through the walk and into the on coming lane of traffic which was moving at this point. The speed limit is 35 on this road. They estimate the SUV was well above 50 and accelerating at the time of the collision. The SUV driver walked away. The Neon driver wasn't so lucky. I'm not sure about the other driver. We have been fighting the board since the summer that the walk is unsafe.
The worst though was when I was a kid. A motorcycle came out of a side street near our house and was T-boned by a car. I heard the accident and looked in the direction of the sound. It looked like the guy exploded. The EMT's put him on a body board it looked like a piece of varnished ply wood with holes around the edge for handles. Two or three times they put him on the board and tried to lift him up and he would slide off form the blood on the board. I got sick for about ten minutes. I don't ride motor cycles.
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