Posted by Goose on June 24, 2012 at 09:46:35 from (166.250.225.156):
My wife and I went to 5:30 church services last evening and then met friends of ours for dinner.
In a nutshell, when we got home about 9:15, we found a neighbor kid (actually 28 and married) had gotten drunk, lost control of his pickup at a high rate of speed, went into the road ditch, hit our driveway, became airborne, and rolled it about five times across our front lawn.
He was thrown from the pickup and sustained three fractures in his back, one in his neck, several broken ribs, and a broken collar bone. He'll surviv, but he has a long haul ahead.
We talked to his father this morning, and he said the kid had been part of a wedding party and at the reception his "buddies" had fed him some drinks without telling him what was in them.
The kicker was, a Deputy Sheriff rents our farmhouse, which uses the same driveway. He was just suited up and driving down the driveway with his cruiser to go on duty at 8:00pm. The whole thing happened about 100 feet in front of the deputy while he was driving down the driveway. If the deputy had been several seconds sooner, he'd have been broadsided by an airborne pickup and likely wouldn't have survived, himself. As it was, the deputy immediately became the investigating officer.
Also, when the pickup landed, it rolled right down a row of 5 underground sprinklers on our lawn and apparently didn't damage a one.
Since he got our mailbox, and not the deputy's, guess I'll need to at least have a temporary mailbox rigged by tomorrow.
The rescue unit took the kid to our local hospital and they immediately lifelined him to Lincoln. When he came to, someone asked him if he knew what happened. He replied, "I screwed up." He'll survive, but he has a long row ahead of him.
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