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| Another head-on fatality involving a police car. | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 26 2017, 07:56 PM (248 Views) | |
| Oddball | Dec 26 2017, 07:56 PM Post #1 |
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Hi guys, I have been reflecting upon the fragility of life, today. At about 8.15pm yesterday, I was just four cars back from a head on smash, involving a police car and another. I missed seeing the actual impact, but saw the immediate aftermath - 2 dead, including the policeman, and the other driver seriously injured. Since my own health issues render me about as much use as a chocolate teapot in the helping mode, I ascertained that others were on the scene, and that the emergency services had been called. Knowing that other cars were beginning to back up on both sides of the dual carriageway, and that the emergency services were on their way, I carefully turned around and took an alternative way home. All you could see from the road of the police car, after it had 'bounced'/'slewed' away and become buried in the hedgerow and trees, was the flashing blue lights. My heart goes out to all affected. Edited by Oddball, Dec 26 2017, 07:59 PM.
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| Barry | Dec 26 2017, 10:43 PM Post #2 |
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Hope you are OK, Oddball, it's quite a shock to be so close up to something like that. Christmas Day has brought some horrible incidents this year. |
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| johnofgwent | Dec 27 2017, 05:55 PM Post #3 |
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It .. It is GREEN !!
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Around Sheffield by any chance ? 5pm Radio 4 news today named the victims. Didnt say a lot more. |
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| papasmurf | Dec 27 2017, 06:38 PM Post #4 |
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From the BBC website:- More at link:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-42492870 Police officer and woman killed in Sheffield crash named 10 minutes ago A police officer and a 61-year-old woman who died in a crash on Christmas Day have been named. PC Dave Fields was responding to an incident when the marked BMW 3 Series he was driving was in collision with a Citroen C3 on the A57 in Sheffield. The woman, who was a passenger in the Citroen, has been named as Lorraine Stephenson. |
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| Oddball | Dec 27 2017, 11:48 PM Post #5 |
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That is the one, when I first took a squint at what the papers initially put up about it online I could see that the MailOnline had both a map and a 'stock' photo placing the accident about a mile or so closer to the Parkway than where it actually happened. It is always a bit of a shaker when coming so close to sudden road deaths. It is the first I have seen for over 20yrs. I have seen two others in the UK, and one in Morocco. Being a religious sort it kind of makes me think, were they 'spiritually prepared' to meet their Maker - or indeed, am I? 'Ask not for whom the bell tolls.' |
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| Oddball | Dec 27 2017, 11:53 PM Post #6 |
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Yes, I am OK, thanks; as you intimate, it adds another level of pathos and reflection this time of the year. |
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| johnofgwent | Dec 28 2017, 10:30 PM Post #7 |
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It .. It is GREEN !!
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I don't think anybody is really prepared. Not even dad who had seven and a half hours from taking what he knew would be his last morphine shot until he shuffled off his mortal coil. There was a celebrated horror down here a while ago, some bloke had a flat on a horse box so the damn fool stops in the worst possible place on a dodgy bend on a motorway deceleration lane. The inevitable happened when he stuck his head out into the road from the front of the horse box. Moira was working admin for the highways authority at the time. The official account from a first responder who stopped was he went to see what he could do and saw instantly there was nothing he could do as a first aider trained in CPR. Moira explained why to me that evening. She'd spent most of the morning making tea strong enough to strip your teeth of the enamel and sweet enough to give you diabetes for the gritter crews coming back to base having been press ganged into searching 600 yards of carriageway for the severed head .... Life and death IS brutal sometimes. There's no other way to put it |
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