Bad wrecks on the I4 Orlando area

[straycat]

This happend about two Fridays ago.

Ok,,,,so I got a video camera (JVC HD pocket cam) and my cell phone camera 3.0 mp that takes realy great shots. We see three really bad wrecks during the worst rain in awhile. I get my cameras out and ready and start to shoot this huge lifted white Ford van towing a nice sized camper that is smashed up against a guard rail and people running all over the median trying to help the people out of the van and camper (driving with people in the camper???). Smoke is coming out of the van. I changed my mind. I am about 10 feet away slowed down and just thought 'NO"!!! Later we see 5 cars piled up and there is a small fire coming out of this Yellow Charger (who was racing himself on the highway no doubt). I don't shoot any footage.

Then, the last one we see is this stupid idiot who I see in the rear view mirror behind us coming up at over 90+ in the pouring rain and cutting in and out of traffic as if he was Steve Mcqueen in Le Mans. Man!!! I say to my wife and a my best buddy to ' hold on there is going to be a crash here around this tight exit turn '!!! We are doing about 35 mph around this two lane exit off of I4 and the idiot in the black Infinity comes by us at about 80 mph (he slowed down a bit) and just glides over to the grass median on the right of the highway and then flips over and rolls about 10 times!!!! We stopped and I got out the JVC camera and was going to record the guy smashing, but once again I changed my mind. Somebody got shot out of the car and the driver's head is bobbing in and out of the window and he has dirt, grass and mud from the median on his face and head as he is flipped over and over again. A few cars ahead of us are stopped and people are running over to the car to help (or try) and I have the JVC ready to record the aftermath.....but I don't.

I guess I have softened my heart in my older age now. Years ago I would have filmed this kind of stuff and I did. At road race tracks, drag races, and while in the military I took photos and vids of really gross deaths!!! The calm after the storm...lol

 

[Captain Ledd]

People have no brains. Glad to hear you managed to keep yourself from becoming part of the story.

I got passed on a snowy road once in W Michigan (tons of lake effect snow) by a BMW. Had to be going 50-55 MPH on a 45 MPH road, not only that I was driving about 20 and could feel the car sliding as it was. Cut my very good female friend off who I was following, by about 5-10 feet and missed the on comming car by about 10-15 feet.

A few miles later what do we see? signs of a recent vehicle skidding off the road, and a very similar BMW, same color, IN a tree. As in, up IN the branches. Neither of us stopped. Far as I'm concerned let him bleed out or freeze to death.

 

[HardcoreKeith]

Hey, you might have seen me on the I4 on my way to work... I'm the white Ranger with a Leer cap that's doing the speed limit.

 

[Mac]

Yep, happens all the time, people just not careful of conditions. Driving on the interstate in a good snow storm in the Jeep, doing maybe 55 when some T-Bird passes me with Georga plates on it, passes me doing about 70. Passed her up within five miles, she was doing about 40 and had the death grip on the wheel. She looked like something had scared the crap out of her.
Dave

 

[Original_Ranger84]

The worst wreck I have seen I didn't even get to see. And it happened in Ideal conditions. Middle of summer on a nice sunny day, with nothing on the road.

I was in Anchorage about 200 miles from home (going home.) The wreck was with 2 kids from my town coming to anchorage, when a truck decided to pass them with a massive trailer around a corner and ran into a motorhome that was going to my town, and jumped it, the trailer swung and ripped off the truck and crushed the kids car. Everyone except the driver of the truck died... I would have tortured the crap out of that guy had I met him.

 

[straycat]

Hey, you might have seen me on the I4 on my way to work... I'm the white Ranger with a Leer cap that's doing the speed limit.

You are the man!!!! I drive the speed limit (unless to go around a slower driver on the interstate...not in town. Just cruise it cooley and have to just be late if I have to.....


Straycat

 

[straycat]

The worst wreck I have seen I didn't even get to see. And it happened in Ideal conditions. Middle of summer on a nice sunny day, with nothing on the road.

I was in Anchorage about 200 miles from home (going home.) The wreck was with 2 kids from my town coming to anchorage, when a truck decided to pass them with a massive trailer around a corner and ran into a motorhome that was going to my town, and jumped it, the trailer swung and ripped off the truck and crushed the kids car. Everyone except the driver of the truck died... I would have tortured the crap out of that guy had I met him.

I know how you feel. I have lost friends because of somebody's stupidity. Some times we loose a friend who was just not thinking. They will always be missed...


Straycat