[A930Rocket]

It hasn't hit me yet...

My wife and I were coming home from a movie at about 9 PM and as I drove on a busy two lane road, I saw what I thought was a red motorcycle down on the side of the road at the woodline (10' off the asphalt).

I told my wife what I saw and as we went several hundred feet more, we saw an SUV with a boat on a trailer. Two women were looking at the back of the boat. No lights were on the trailer, but the SUV had them burning. We decided we should turn around and check to see if anyone needed help at the bike (my wife is a 30 year ICU RN).

We went back, made a U turn and pulled over to light up the bike. As we did, there was a guy laying on the ground about 10'-12' past the bike and right next to the road. He was face down and his right arm was broken badly. My wife checked his pulse and there was nothing. Within seconds, a volunteer EMT pulled up and my wife and him decided to turn him over to start CPR. As my wife started the first chest compression, she said he was gone. His chest was like jelly with bones in it she said. He wasn't messed up to bad besides the broken arm to me, but he was missing teeth in front. My wife said he was broken up worse than I thought. I wasn't as close to him, except for helping to turn him over. It's the second time seeing a dead person, except my grandparents. The first time was 35 years ago when I came up on another motorcycle accident, when riding my bike as a 15 year old. That guy had T-boned a car, gone over the roof and landed in the road. I had forgotten all about it until now.

A policeman pulled up and as we were talking to him, the SUV with the boat passed us. We pointed him to a policeman and as he took off after the boat owner, more police, EMT, etc. pulled up. They took our names, number, etc. and after an hour, we were allowed to head out.

What a night.

Be careful out there.