Posted on 09/05/2004 4:16:10 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
COLUMBUS -- Police say a retired Garrison Sergeant Major from Fort Benning was killed in a hit-and-run accident while he was training for the Army Ten-Miler race in Washington, D.C.
Authorities were searching for the driver who struck Robert R. McCord at about 7 a.m. Saturday while he was jogging on the Whitesville Road bridge, less than two miles from his home.
McCord, 48, was hit from behind and he flipped onto the vehicle, said Columbus Patrol Officer Rosalyn Hall.
"We know that the vehicle is missing a headlight," said Hall.
"Even if they washed it, there's blood or something on it."
McCord was pronounced dead at 7:30 a.m., Muscogee County Deputy Coroner Freeman Worley said.
He retired in January after serving in the military for 30 years, said Frank Fushon, who is married to McCord's stepdaughter. He said McCord was in excellent health and ran five miles each morning in preparation for the Oct. 24 race.
"He was in very good shape," Fushon said.
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Probably some drunk driver. That's why I never would jog along any road.
Excellent advice. Also, remember the buddy system. Jog with a friend or co-worker if you can. While I was in, the bases I was stationed at suffered an accident or tragedy of this type once a year among the officers or upper enlisted-- E8+). In every case, they were jogging alone. One had a heart attack. He might have lived if a jogging buddy were by to offer aid.
My brother-in-law's older brother found that out the hard way. He was a doctor and only 43 years old. His wife went looking for him after he didn't return from his morning jog. She found him face down in a puddle dead from a heart attack. A jogging partner might have saved his life with CPR.
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