Posted on 04/30/2012 1:16:00 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin woman and her adult son were killed in separate traffic crashes just hours apart in a Milwaukee suburb, police said Monday.
Mary J. Moore, 45, died after she was struck by a vehicle on a street in West Allis. A friend was speeding her son, Thomas M. Olson, 22, to the hospital to see her when he struck three parked cars and overturned, West Allis Deputy Chief Charles Padgett said.
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I wish personal tragedy stories could be segmented off in a place where people don’t have to read them, not even the headlines.
I don’t see the point in living everyone’s worst moments with them.
I agree.
Speed Kills.
Happens around here alot. Usually it’s high school kids. Boyfriend/Girlfriend hears the other has been in a wreck and in speeding to the site kills themselves.
One of the downsides to being wired in.
The driver of the car OIson was riding in was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. He and two other passengers suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Moore was hit as she lay prone in the street. A motorist following the car that struck her told police it looked as though the vehicle hit a speed bump, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s report. The witness did not realize that it was a person until getting closer, the report said.
Padgett said Moore had been drinking before she was hit, but it’s not clear how much. An autopsy on her body was expected to be done Monday.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/30/mom-son-die-in-car-accidents-hours-apart-in-milwaukee-suburb/
She passed out from drinking prone in the street in the wee hours, and the driver was drinking who ran over her, and the son’s driver also drinking? You can’t make this stuff up, but tragic all the way around, if I read this right.
WEST ALLIS, Wis. - A 45-year-old woman was hit and killed by a car Sunday morning in West Allis.
Police said 45-year-old Mary Moore was struck and killed while lying in the street about 1 a.m. Sunday. The driver that hit Moore fled from the scene but is now under arrest.
WISN 12 news spoke with the woman who called 911. Wendy Muth was watching a movie shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday when she heard a loud noise outside.
“I looked out and saw a body laying there,” she said. “And I grabbed the phone to call 911. And of course, they were asking me, ‘Are they breathing.’ I said, ‘They’re not moving, so should I go out and see?’ And you know — she — the person was gone already. Hope to never see anything like it again.”
Police said the driver was arrested near the scene at 81st Street and Lapham Avenue Sunday morning.
“It’s a quiet neighborhood,” Muth said. “But people do speed down this street constantly. You’ve got to watch.”
Around 5:30 a.m., Moore’s 22-year-old son, Thomas Olson, died in a car crash as he rushed to the hospital to see his mother. Olson was a passenger in a car that struck a parked dump truck and overturned near 90th Street and National Avenue.
The driver, arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, and two other passengers suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Sad. RIP.
Very, very sad.
Very, very sad.
West Alliss, the last town of Jeffery Dahmer.
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