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.
That is a good question...funny thing about the stretches of road (95) in both NC and SC...there are long stretches of road that traverse swamp type areas all through the state. By the looks of the map it looks fairly populated - however I have been on the road several times and it can be populated and then you can feel like your driving through a jungle (feels like a canopy road at times).
I don't remember a lot of guard rails there either. From what I understand a lot of people go off the road and into the swamps or woods.
It should not have taken this long to find them. They should have been found when the 911 call was made.
My prayers go out for the couple and my prayers and condolences for the grieving family.
Didn't they look off the road?
The only daughter of a good friend of mine died in a traffic accident similar to this. She was with a high school friend of hers, and they were driving overnight to get back to Tuscaloosa after a football game at LSU. She must have fallen asleep at the wheel, and run off the road, killing her and her friend instantly from the force of the crash. Apparently, the electrical system in the car must have been damaged as well because there were no lights to be seen from the road. Someone noticed the car in the morning and called the police. The trooper told her grandmother that finding them earlier wouldn't have made a difference. At least it wasn't a full week, though.
On FOX they are speculating a deer may have darted across the highway in front of the car and they veered off the road into the swamp.
Tax dollars at work!
When Highway Patrol investigated I doubt they even stopped!!!
Unbelievable.
Is everyone understanding this?
Last week a 911 call was made stating a collision had occured at the location near where the vehicle was found.
Highway Patrol investigated and could not find a collision.
A week later the family with their own resources hires a helicopter and searches the area...and the brother and Uncle find the bodies!!!
Is that what we need to do know? Pay for our own SAR.
How many people will have to die before we make people responsible within their jobs?
What is their basis for that speculation?
There was a young girl on Fox a few months ago that won some sort of Science award for a device she invented that will sound and wake up a driver if he/she falls asleep at the wheel.. I forget, now, exactly how it works, but she is supposed to be getting a patent on it so it wasn't a fly-by-night invention.
And they said that the car was only partially submerged.
Greta is asking the same questions we are about the distance and the whether there was daylight!
and winter time with the heater on in the car, easy to get drowsy... and if his wife is like me, goes to sleep and leaves the husband to drive.
Let's wait to hear what really happened before you go that way.
Said they stopped and there was no debris on the road in the location.
There were numerous calls to 911 reporting the accident. It was within a 3-4 mile range. They are reporting that there were skid marks leaving the road into the creek.
Happened at 7:30am on Thursday. No rain, temp about 40 and light wind 10-15 mph. No fog, no black ice.
Highway patrol says 3 miles is too much to thoroughly investigate.
Why is the daughter mad at the people in South Carolina? They weren't even in that state.
This is a prime example of why they shouldn't speak at times like this, but the press egged them on.
Skid marks from highway into creek...
Dr. Baden is on Gretta and said one thing they will check is to see if he had a heart attack since diabetics are more prone to heart attacks. He said in some areas of NY and NJ they've had cars go into swamps and not be found for ten or fifteen years.
That car has a fair amount of damage on the drivers side. Consistent with a collision.
emergency personnel were never able to locate a collision at the location, the Highway Patrol said.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Fell asleep while driving.
Amazing.... that's the CHP's job, to investigate. If there was skid marks (I didn't hear that, I was typing) then it would be a matter of looking in the general direction of the skid.
That is absolutely NOT what is being reported; the reporters said that there are a LOT of calls about ALL accidents along that stretch of I-95; that is a very bad stretch of highway; it's out in the rural areas and cars drive like a bat out of hell.
And she most certainly did NOT say there were skid marks from the road to the creek. She said there were skid marks into the swamp, but she did NOT say from the road to the creek or swamp.
Highway patrol says 3 miles is too much to thoroughly investigate.
And she didn't say that either.........why are you doing this?
Yes that's true. She made it sound like the SC state police were at fault. Maybe she just doesn't understand the jurisdiction.
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