Who saw the police program on Wednesday night about car accidents down South

Garp · 01-09-2007, 10:31

Every year at the college I worked for we held a "student choice day" organised by the Students Union, where various extra curricular stuff was arranged taking place in various rooms, discussing stuff or with guest speakers and the like. The day was always a bit of a headache for me due to A/V requirements that we often didn't have enough equipment for but I usually managed to get things planned out relatively smoothly. I would usually take along the more complicated stuff and get it set up wherever and stick around to make sure it worked fine.
I can't remember the exact subject for the talk but one of our students stood up at the front and told us all of the day her boyfriend died in her arms. Though she didn't cry, and her voice never wavered, you could see the hurt in her eyes and there was hardly a dry eye in the audience when she'd finished. I'll try and remember the precise details..

They'd been at a local pub, the Witch. Very nice pub in fact, quite popular, and had had a couple of drinks with friends. She had had soft drinks as she was driving. It was closing time and they'd headed out from the pub, and he'd walked her the brief distance to her car, walked back to the road and crossed. There is a bit of a blind corner near the pub. At 30mph, the legal limit, there is just over twice the braking distance from the moment you come in sight of the road. As she watched him cross the road, she saw a car doing 70mph hit him. Given the distance from the end of the nearest junction the guy was probably still accelerating hard at the point he'd come around the corner. Your average small car could never have manage to hit 70mph in that distance. The car carried on going, but as it was pub closing time there were so many witnesses multiple people had the presence of mind to note the number plate.
The girl ran from her car and went over to her boyfriend, hysterical, but there was little that could be done, he was alive but not for long.

Thankfully in this case justice was (relatively) done, and the driver was put behind bars for DUI and manslaughter, for the full length term, along with a life disqualification from driving. Sadly for this girl, what does that amount to compared to having watched her boyfriend being hit and dying?

01-09-2007, 10:31	#14
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Every year at the college I worked for we held a "student choice day" organised by the Students Union, where various extra curricular stuff was arranged taking place in various rooms, discussing stuff or with guest speakers and the like. The day was always a bit of a headache for me due to A/V requirements that we often didn't have enough equipment for but I usually managed to get things planned out relatively smoothly. I would usually take along the more complicated stuff and get it set up wherever and stick around to make sure it worked fine. I can't remember the exact subject for the talk but one of our students stood up at the front and told us all of the day her boyfriend died in her arms. Though she didn't cry, and her voice never wavered, you could see the hurt in her eyes and there was hardly a dry eye in the audience when she'd finished. I'll try and remember the precise details.. They'd been at a local pub, the Witch. Very nice pub in fact, quite popular, and had had a couple of drinks with friends. She had had soft drinks as she was driving. It was closing time and they'd headed out from the pub, and he'd walked her the brief distance to her car, walked back to the road and crossed. There is a bit of a blind corner near the pub. At 30mph, the legal limit, there is just over twice the braking distance from the moment you come in sight of the road. As she watched him cross the road, she saw a car doing 70mph hit him. Given the distance from the end of the nearest junction the guy was probably still accelerating hard at the point he'd come around the corner. Your average small car could never have manage to hit 70mph in that distance. The car carried on going, but as it was pub closing time there were so many witnesses multiple people had the presence of mind to note the number plate. The girl ran from her car and went over to her boyfriend, hysterical, but there was little that could be done, he was alive but not for long. Thankfully in this case justice was (relatively) done, and the driver was put behind bars for DUI and manslaughter, for the full length term, along with a life disqualification from driving. Sadly for this girl, what does that amount to compared to having watched her boyfriend being hit and dying? __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?