I was headed home after work when I look to the left to see this girl and her friend starting to walk infront of a truck pulling out of a strip mall onto the main road. The guy was looking left for traffic and was turning right, the girl was coming from his right. She just started walking infront as he was pulling out, obviously he was looking at traffic coming at him. She put her hand on his hood as if that was going to stop this truck and sure enough, I saw a ford ranger RUN OVER a human being. Needless to say I was in shock. So I ran over there, called 911 and waited on hold for like 5 mins.
The guy in the truck stopped and everything, it was an honest accident.
Turns out the girl didnt speak a lick of english, she seemed ok, the truck just ran over her legs. I think one of them might have been broken. We ended up having the guy put his truck half way in the road so traffic wouldnt hit us. Only myself and two other guys from base stopped to help which was ridiculous.
I ended up having to translate for the paramedics. The girls friend was ready to bolt, i could tell she was scared.
The craziest crap happens to me, just a couple months ago I was on the scene for a guy wrapping himself around a light pole. That experience really helped me out here because I was more or less thinking "here we go again" and really stayed quite calm even though I thought this person was a pancake initially.
The funny thing is, the whole past three days mexicans have been demonstrating in this crap little town and it has been the source of heated discussion at work. I was all day trying to convince this guy i work with that we are burdened by them, by many things to include medical expenses. And then that afternoon i see an illegal get run over and paramedics gave her top notch care and hauled ass to the hospital. Who is gonna foot the bill?
You and I my friends.... and she really could have exercised more caution crossing intersections like that.
The guy in the truck stopped and everything, it was an honest accident.
Turns out the girl didnt speak a lick of english, she seemed ok, the truck just ran over her legs. I think one of them might have been broken. We ended up having the guy put his truck half way in the road so traffic wouldnt hit us. Only myself and two other guys from base stopped to help which was ridiculous.
I ended up having to translate for the paramedics. The girls friend was ready to bolt, i could tell she was scared.
The craziest crap happens to me, just a couple months ago I was on the scene for a guy wrapping himself around a light pole. That experience really helped me out here because I was more or less thinking "here we go again" and really stayed quite calm even though I thought this person was a pancake initially.
The funny thing is, the whole past three days mexicans have been demonstrating in this crap little town and it has been the source of heated discussion at work. I was all day trying to convince this guy i work with that we are burdened by them, by many things to include medical expenses. And then that afternoon i see an illegal get run over and paramedics gave her top notch care and hauled ass to the hospital. Who is gonna foot the bill?
You and I my friends.... and she really could have exercised more caution crossing intersections like that.