Dirt Roads...

We live on a dirt road out in the middle of nowhere. Usually it is very peaceful and quiet. No one comes down this road (usually) that either doesn't live here or is visiting a friend out here. Very little traffic.

There are 2 very bad curves on our dirt road. 90 degree turns that are banked and they are both on hills. I've always thought that there would be some horriffic accident in one of those curves one of these days, because you also can't see oncoming cars around them and the road is very narrow. In between these 2 bad curves is a blind hill. A small hill, but it's steep enough that you can't see if someone is coming from the other direction unless it's dark and then you can see the headlights.

Anyway, I left the house early this morning to take DH to work. He's a firefighter and had to be at the station by 7 am. It was still fairly dark as we topped the blind hill I just mentioned. We see a glint of chrome. DH slides sideways to a stop and jumps out of the truck with me right behind him. It's a truck over turned on it's back, and it looks pretty messed up. We check the truck out and find that there is no one in it, that it must have happened several hours ago (exhaust and such was cold), and several empty and broken beer bottles. Neither one of us had our cell phones on us, and there were no victims in the area, so we went on to the firestation so that he could call it in to dispatch.

On my way back to the house, I see one of my neighbors pulling up to the accident. So I stop to let him know that it's already been called in. We looked around a little and you can see where the truck had been back in the woods (where they were drinking most likely). The tire tracks make it look like they pulled out really fast and came over the hill, only to meet another car. The truck swerved out of the way, hit the ditch and then the bank, came across the road and hit the opposite bank. At some point it spun around and flipped, because the nose was pointed back the way it had come and it's laying on it's roof.

Whoever it was that was driving must have realized that they were in for a DUI, because they took off. They were lucky to have been able to walk away from it. It was that bad. I just wonder how long it's going to take them to find out who was actually driving it. Won't be hard to trace the owner...just run the tag. The driver will be a different story.

Well, time for me to get back to work on the house. Needless to say, I didn't manage to get the floors done before the kids got up. They were up before I left to take DH to work! LOL Figures that they would get up early on a day that they don't have to go to school! They are outside right now, watching the lights on their dad's firetruck that they can see through the trees. They are waiting for their dad to drive by and blow the air horn at them! I'm waiting to see if he'll stop for a minute and tell me what the state trooper thinks of the accident!

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They just went by. DH didn't stop because the trooper was right behind him. The wrecker truck came just a minute after they did. The truck that flipped didn't look near as bad as I thought it did in the dark and on it's roof! It'll be interesting to find out more about it later though.