From time to time I visit a local paper from a small town I spent about 20 years in. Just to keep up, look at the O'bits and shit. So I came across an article about a death on a nearby Interstate.
Preliminary investigation revealed - - -, 46, of Evansville, was driving a 2014 Freightliner semi tractor-trailer westbound on Interstate 64 near the 55-mile marker. --- was traveling in the right lane of Interstate 64 and was merging into the passing lane when his vehicle struck an adult male.
The male, identified as -----, 67, of -------, had parked his vehicle on the shoulder of the interstate, exited his vehicle and entered the lanes of traffic. --------- was pronounced dead at the scene.
I can only imagine why one would do that. Suicide comes to mind first but maybe something went wrong with his ride and he took a step too far. That's why I, the only couple of times I've had to pull onto the shoulder off the Interstate, go all the way into the grass. That said I see people all the time just barely past the white line, out milling about like it's a parking lot. Or changing their flat tire basically sitting in traffic. Stupid hurts, but your stupidity shouldn't hurt other people. That poor truck driver. The people immediately following (if it were me I'm not stopping, I mean why). The first responders, that's the kind of shit that leads to PTSD. That scene is something out of a Rob Zombie horror movie.
Preliminary investigation revealed - - -, 46, of Evansville, was driving a 2014 Freightliner semi tractor-trailer westbound on Interstate 64 near the 55-mile marker. --- was traveling in the right lane of Interstate 64 and was merging into the passing lane when his vehicle struck an adult male.
The male, identified as -----, 67, of -------, had parked his vehicle on the shoulder of the interstate, exited his vehicle and entered the lanes of traffic. --------- was pronounced dead at the scene.
I can only imagine why one would do that. Suicide comes to mind first but maybe something went wrong with his ride and he took a step too far. That's why I, the only couple of times I've had to pull onto the shoulder off the Interstate, go all the way into the grass. That said I see people all the time just barely past the white line, out milling about like it's a parking lot. Or changing their flat tire basically sitting in traffic. Stupid hurts, but your stupidity shouldn't hurt other people. That poor truck driver. The people immediately following (if it were me I'm not stopping, I mean why). The first responders, that's the kind of shit that leads to PTSD. That scene is something out of a Rob Zombie horror movie.