Just to make things clear I watched these accidents happen to someone else.
Over the years I've come across accidents that had happened and like everyone else slowed down to see if I could see what had happened. I believe one time I actually saw a body covered up on the pavement by the police on the scene.
The first time I watched a car accident unfold was in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
I was three cars back from a fairly busy intersection. The traffic light had just turned green and the car in the front of the line entered the intersection. No sooner than she entered the intersection another car entered from the left. That driver was going through on a red light. That car t-boned the car in front of me. This was the first accident I had ever seen. I was a bit stunned.
I pulled off to the side and got out of my car. The police showed up along with an ambulance. The police took my name and my statement. About the same time I took some time to write down what I saw. I knew that the longer between seeing something and recording those observations the more details blur. I'm glad I wrote things down since some time after someone from an insurance company called me to ask about my observations. I was able to read to them exactly what happened and I never heard another word about it.
The second accident Cindy and I observed happened just a few days ago.
Cindy and I were driving to Laura's house on a busy road when we saw an SUV in front of us 2 cars and in the next lane smack into the guard rail on the right twice then loose total control and took a hard left across our lane then across the median and then the 2 opposing lanes all the while losing a fender and various other parts. It ended up in the ditch on its side. I pulled off to the side and got out and approached the car. Cindy was calling 911. Many people converged on car. The driver was unconscious. One guy sort of took charge. I hung around a bit but decided I wasn't contributing anything and the police had just arrived so I got back to our car and went to Laura's.
In neither case did we ever hear the outcome of these accidents.
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