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Sunday November 30, 2008
Heading southbound on Interstate 91 in Vermont in the first wintry mix of the season. Slowly because we'd just passed an accident with four or five cars off the road. I looked up to see an SUV in the northbound lane plummeting into the median. I felt as if I was watching in slow motion dream state while they rolled end over end two times and came to rest upright in the southbound lane. Like a ghost car with the rear window smashed out and personal belongings flying out as debris. Ass end sliding perpendicular into my lane. I'd been braking for what seemed an eternity in hopes of missing them. The snowy conditions made that impossible. My daughter yelled for me to pull right just in time to make them impact us to the side instead of a full head on collision. There was a guardrail and ditch to the right. I was worried about flipping us too.
After the crash there was a woman across the highway screaming. Apparently she'd witnessed the accident and could now possibly see the victim who got ejected from their car being tended to by three or four others. Other people were tending to whomever was still in the other car.
I saw all this when I dashed to the nearest mile marker for 911 info. I tersely barked the mile tenths to my daughter who was making the call. Then I told her to get back in the car and shut the door as soon as possible as I'd shut the engine off and I knew the heat would be quickly dissapating in the late afternoon, early evening chill.
Twice, ambulances pulled up and pulled silently away. The first one leaving behind used gloves.
After nearly an hour of sitting there I got the attention of one of the firemen on the scene. He brought over the attending officer.
After returning my license and registration to me, he and the fireman determined my car was driveable.
Said car is now in the shop. Five thousand dollars worth of damage.
I've not been able to find any report in the news of the accident.
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