Posted on 06/20/2005 7:03:17 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
A man awoke to more than a clatter Sunday morning: a wayward car flying into his bedroom and crushing him in his own bed.
"It hit the outside bedroom wall, continued through the bedroom, over the bed and partially exited through the side wall," Pine Bluff Lt. Bob Rawlinson said. "The guy was pinned under the car and rolled up in the mattress."
Police say Devlon Chandler, 34, of Pine Bluff and his wife Arninitra were traveling home from a casino in Greenville, Miss., when he fell asleep at the wheel. Police say the couple's car left the road, traveled over a grassy area, clipped a telephone pole, ruptured a gas main and went airborne before coming to rest in the bedroom of Ricky May, 42, of Pine Bluff.
The bed and other furniture were crushed under the car, Rawlinson said.
"The car was totally inside the house and a little bit sticking out through the other side," Rawlinson said. Two walls were destroyed, he said.
Rescuers were able to free May and he was taken to the Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, where he was initially listed in serious but stable condition, but improved by Sunday afternoon, police said.
May suffered an eye injury and burns from where the vehicle landed on him, authorities said, and he may have to have his right-hand ring finger amputated. He was transferred Sunday afternoon to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to deal with the injury to his eye, police said.
The Chandlers also were taken to the hospital, but their injuries were not serious and they were treated and released...
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Man watching TV in bed is run over by car
Posted by Jalapeno
On News/Act
When cars misbehave, the press never divulge the model.
Sounds like a typical Saturday night at my house.
It also brings to mind a favorite bumper sticker:
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my dad -
not screaming in terror like his passengers."
I don't have any statistics, but I've heard of vehicles crashing into homes quite a few times.
In my old neighborhood, a classmate of my brother's owned this house that sat down a slope on a level below the street. A fire truck answering a call in the middle of the night was rounding a bend on the street where this house was located...the driver lost control and the fire truck crashed through the fence and landed in this guy's front living room. The owner of the house was divorced and his son (who was just a small child at the time) was visiting. The son ordinarily would have been sleeping on a sofa bed in that front living room of the house, but as it happened, he had gotten up to go to his father's room just minutes before the truck crashed through the house. Otherwise, that child might have been severely injured or killed.
LOL
Almost loved the Bumper sticker....
But,
Need to replace "my dad" with somebody famous, who died asleep at the wheel with passengers in the car.
Any ideas?
(Di wasn't driving.....Teddy didn't die....???)
LOL, I loved that first Vacation movie.
But it was obvious it was an "assault" type of vehicular weaponry.
A little help here please, how does one pronounce Arninitra?
A "rude awakening" ping.
There is something weird about Pine Bluff.
A year ago, I was calling on a customer in the area and had a motel reservation but got bumped by a caravan of Gypsies who were in town for a funeral.
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That is weird...did the motel think it would get more money for the room from the gypsies? LOL
This shows the hazard of not having a yard in front of the house to separate the home from the road.
I hate it when that happens!
Yes. My tech service guy was going to meet me the afternoon before our sales call and I had two reservation confirmations. When we got there, they had sold off one of the rooms. We went elsewhere.
I hope you didn't lose any deposit, or were charged one night for the room.
Hopefully, the other place was better.
The Gypsies did have some pretty nice pickup trucks.
Indeed! Lol
LOL
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