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I got up, showered, dressed and started making oatmeal since I'm out of yogurt. I heard an almighty crashing noise outside and went out onto the porch and a car crashed across the road and just down a little from our house. I remembered to turn the stove off, grabbed my orange safety vest and headed over.
By the time I got down the hill and over there, a neighbor down the road had stopped and called 911 already and the passengers had gotten out of the car, it was a father and his 16 year old autistic son and they were on their way to school. I mostly wrangled the passing cars, telling them to slow down since I was visible and briefly chatting with the folks who stopped to ask if we needed help. The neighbor was a pediatric nurse and so handled the triage, but both people were standing and talking and seemed shaken but okay.
After ten minutes or so, the first fire company folks arrived and set up flares and cones which really helped slow people down. The curve is extremely sharp, not really banked properly and people really whip through there. I go 35mph around it, most people go much much faster. F wandered over once she got dressed to see if anyone needed anything (the crash noise woke her up). I had the neighbor move her car into our driveway since she was parked in the road still. F wandered off when there wasn't anything to help with and went to get ready for work.
After a while, the state trooper arrived and then the driver's father, so they could get the kid sitting somewhere warmer. It was around 45F but a little breezy and wet feeling. Then the ambulance arrived and checked them over. The ambulance parked in the road so I went over to direct traffic. The one fire company person also did since I couldn't see approaching cars in that direction and he couldn't see my way. I heard some chatting behind me but I mostly didn't notice what was going on until the ambulance left. The fire company guy wandered over and said, yeah, wild that the cop arrested him for drinking. Me, oh yeah, the driver didn't seem drunk o.O clearly I missed something going on behind me! But I guess there was a can in the car.
Once the ambulance wasn't parked in the road anymore, I left since they didn't need help anymore and the neighbor had left for work as well. Around 9, I saw the fire company vehicle leave, so I'm assuming the car was out of the woods at that point. The driver was really lucky he didn't hit the telephone pole because he wasn't far away from it. I saw a state trooper parked at the spot around 1pm but he left pretty quick.
Then I went and made my oatmeal and got on with the rest of my day. Fire company guy said that was a problem corner, so we were probably lucky there weren't any crashes for two years when we first moved in, since there's been three in the last four months.
By the time I got down the hill and over there, a neighbor down the road had stopped and called 911 already and the passengers had gotten out of the car, it was a father and his 16 year old autistic son and they were on their way to school. I mostly wrangled the passing cars, telling them to slow down since I was visible and briefly chatting with the folks who stopped to ask if we needed help. The neighbor was a pediatric nurse and so handled the triage, but both people were standing and talking and seemed shaken but okay.
After ten minutes or so, the first fire company folks arrived and set up flares and cones which really helped slow people down. The curve is extremely sharp, not really banked properly and people really whip through there. I go 35mph around it, most people go much much faster. F wandered over once she got dressed to see if anyone needed anything (the crash noise woke her up). I had the neighbor move her car into our driveway since she was parked in the road still. F wandered off when there wasn't anything to help with and went to get ready for work.
After a while, the state trooper arrived and then the driver's father, so they could get the kid sitting somewhere warmer. It was around 45F but a little breezy and wet feeling. Then the ambulance arrived and checked them over. The ambulance parked in the road so I went over to direct traffic. The one fire company person also did since I couldn't see approaching cars in that direction and he couldn't see my way. I heard some chatting behind me but I mostly didn't notice what was going on until the ambulance left. The fire company guy wandered over and said, yeah, wild that the cop arrested him for drinking. Me, oh yeah, the driver didn't seem drunk o.O clearly I missed something going on behind me! But I guess there was a can in the car.
Once the ambulance wasn't parked in the road anymore, I left since they didn't need help anymore and the neighbor had left for work as well. Around 9, I saw the fire company vehicle leave, so I'm assuming the car was out of the woods at that point. The driver was really lucky he didn't hit the telephone pole because he wasn't far away from it. I saw a state trooper parked at the spot around 1pm but he left pretty quick.
Then I went and made my oatmeal and got on with the rest of my day. Fire company guy said that was a problem corner, so we were probably lucky there weren't any crashes for two years when we first moved in, since there's been three in the last four months.
