A week or so before school, Maddie and I were just getting back into town from doing some school clothes shopping. I turned towards town because I needed to pick something up at the District office. Suddenly there were police cars getting off of the freeway blaring their sirens and rushing past us on all sides. A car almost ran into us just trying to get out of their way!
We got further down main street and saw that all of the police had a white pick-up corralled in the parking lot of our local grocery store. Just as we were passing by the pick-up crashed into a shed and zoomed back out onto main street, coming our way! There was a four wheeler in the back of the pick-up that was rocking back and forth as the driver swerved and weaved through traffic trying to out-run the police. It was exciting, I tell you!!
I pulled into the turning lane just as he jetted past us, all hunched over the steering wheel, and Maddie said, "Ewwww!!!! He has dread locks!" He reached the next set of lights and suddenly we saw the four wheeler fly up through the air and come crashing down.
Hours later I was up-town letting my little kids cash in on all their freebies from the summer reading program and main street was still blocked off. One of the stores was close to the crash and I was curious so we walked over and checked it out.
Pretty exciting, eh?!! I talked to an officer that was there and he said that the guy driving the truck ran into quite a few cars, but no one was seriously hurt. The driver was dressed like a woman with a long black wig, which was why Maddie thought she saw dread locks...He had several warrants out for his arrest for robbery and possession of drugs. I don't know why he decided to get off in our town!
The car that was damaged the worst:
The very next day Kami and I were heading home, again on the freeway, from getting her some college supplies. I happened to look into my rear view mirror just in time to see a dark blue suburban swerve into the median and back out again. Then the car started flipping end over end bouncing down the freeway right behind us!! At first I slowed down and just kept making unintelligible noises. Kami kept saying, "what, WHAT?!!" I finally managed to say "CRASH!!" and sped up as I pointed behind myself. She looked back in time to see it turn over two more times. The car looked completely totalled. We never did hear what happened to that driver and are hoping that means they were okay. It sure made us sick to our stomach for the rest of the day!
That weekend, Shawn was headed home, again on main street. He had almost reached the exits from the freeway when a woman came speeding off of the freeway at what he guesses to be about 50 MPH. She turned into the on-coming traffic, narrowly missing him, and then hitting a guy on a motorcycle just to the right and slightly behind him. He saw the guy fly through the air and hit. Shawn ran back to him and amazingly the man was alive. A nurse arrived just when Shawn did, and had already called 911 and was able to do just the right things for the guy. Shawn saw him a few days later and it looks like he got away with a broken nose and arm.
We're feeling pretty fortunate that we were so close to so many accidents and were okay.
Holy Moley . I've never witnessed a crash.
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