Posted on 12/11/2006 5:07:52 PM PST by tsmith130
Found in a NC swamp. No foul play...believe to be an auto accident. Prayers for their family. They looked like a loving, happy couple.
I think it was a single car accident.
Surfer is a good reporter. He/She kept us all posted during the James Kim search.
You are being harsh.
I was watching feeds from Channel 47 and 66 over the last couple of hours.
I am not sure what networks they are. You obviously haven't streamed local content over the internet - it isn't all nice and menu driven with a remote!
Actually you stated it WAS a single car accident...know you say you think...that is progress.
Sloane Heffernon is the reporter doing the report and she didn't say what you said; I posted what she said.
Doesn't "a traffic collision" infer more than one vehicle?
Of course, the reporting could be shaky. "Accident" would have been more appropriate if the incident involved one vehicle.
Surfer...thanks for all you do.
.....somethings from living there never leave you, plus we are just across the lake, and do see CHP cars here in town on holidays.
;^)
I believe they're doing an "autopsy" of the car. But preliminary reports seem to indicate the driver went to sleep, or had a heart attack, or some such "accident"....
The damage could have been caused by a deer.
I like your report better. More meat and less attitude.
The fog of news...
Collision is what has been reported was said between the 911 operators and highway patrol.
Now Howling are you taking notes. I didn't say that someone called in and reported a collision.
The news piece was reported 5 hours ago in the original thread on this. That was reported by WPDE in Myrtle Beach about 5 hours ago.
I drove that stretch a couple weeks ago coming back here to Richmond from Jacksonville. I don't remember there being much swamp up along the Rocky Mount stretch of I-95, but there are numerous creeks that cut through the area. Maybe there was swamp there and I was too busy dodging morons to notice it.
It's not exactly remote, but there ain't a hell of a lot out there between exits, for sure. Rocky Mount itself is a ways off 95, of course, and if I remember that area between exits 138 and 141 correctly, it's three solid miles of nothing but trees and road signs.
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yeah, I thought that was an interesting use of that word...
Hi Jr,
Where did you hear that?
Surfer is WRONG, period.
There's nothing worse than bad reporting.
Likely they did look from the ground actually several agencies were likley looking. Weather may have prohibited a chopper search at that time though. A chopper may have been the only way to see it.
Close to where I live last summer a pick up truck went off the hi-way and down a bank. It was found about three weeks ago. The wreck was within a quarter mile of a VFD hall/ambulance station and a school. Thousands of cars passed the place including me several times.
I would question the 911 protocols more than I would the ones on scene. The dispatcher has the cell number of the caller and should in most areas be able to lock out the callers phone. Meaning the one who called it in can not call anyone else until the 911 center released the phone.
I've called 911 several times to report things the latest was a driver slumped over the wheel and someone outside the car waving like mad. Due to traffic I couldn't stop but I did have the mile marker down to the 10th of a mile. 911 called me back as did ambulance dispatch and the car was gone. It would be interesting to know if 911 tried to call the reporting party back.
I can understand how a car would not be visible there. A few years back I drove from Nags Head to I-40. Longest drive in my life it seemed through miles of swamp on either side. Spotting wrecked vehicles especially where no contact with another vehicle was made or skid marks left is a difficult task. I also understand hunters may use this area. Them pulling off and making tracks would add to the confusion.
Sad ending to this story. Prayers for the family.
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