The story you've all been waiting for.

Well, one of the biggest parts of yesterday will be resolved on Saturday. Anyway, hearing that one of my friends will be allright, I feeling MUCH better and I’m willing to share.

Yesterday, my friends and I had a trip planned to go up to Joshua Tree. We got a late start, but that’s usually what happens on our trips. We figured which vehicles we were riding in. We stopped at McDonald’s for some breakfast, however, one vehicle was taking too long, so we decided to leave without it. It caught up a couple miles down the road and everything was going fine. The one that caught up was doing some slightly crazy things like trying to lead despite not knowing how to get there. He also left his right blinker on all the time for some stupid reason despite us telling him. He was also swirving a bit, trying to be cool I guess. The guys in the vehicle I was in didn’t get and thought he was being sort of stupid, but hey he was in control and the blinker thing told us that if we commented a lot on it he would just keep doing it, so we didn’t say anything. We made a stop at a gas station near Joshua Tree for some quick snacks, potty break, etc. We were joking around and having fun, chasing one fo our friends around the store, pretending to be gay, telling your mom jokes, etc. It was fun. Anyway, we got to the road up to Joshua Tree and were talking about what we wanted to do when we got in. Two of the guys had SUVs and one had a truck, the lead guy in the truck likes to off-road and since all the vehicles were capable of doing it, he suggested it since he knew where to do it. Jokingly, the middle guy went to the shoulder to be like "Hey, is this what you mean (no one was around anyway). He did it a couple of times, however, just as the car I was in came around a corner, the one in front of us rolled 2 twice and then spun around over the shoulder. We think that he lost a little bit of control and then over compensated to correct it, which caused the flip. Two of my friend sin the back seat flew out. One died on the spot (the biggest piss off) and one was seriously injured (the one that is getting better very fast). All the vehicles were packed. The three in the back of the one that flipped weren’t wearing seatbelts (the reason I told you to wear your seatbelt no matter what last night). The rest were just banged up, but are fine. The accident looked just like a movie. One of my friends was screaming and I saw it roll clear as day. It looked just like a movie. I didn’t even get what happened until after 911 was called desptie seeing and hearing it all. Luckily, yes there si a luckily, it happened near some people that were paramedics and were on their off time and kept us calm and took care of our injured friends, called 911, and many of the otehr things I told you about last night. The funeral for the one that died is Saturday, so I’ll get some closure there and hearing that my friend that is seriously injured should make a full recovery calm me like no other. The police/paramedics landed a helicopter on the road and flew her to a hospital. The car was on fire so the neighbors also ket the fire under control until the rescue services got there. My friend that was driving will be charged with vehicular manslaughter (something the police have to do), but they say it probably won’t be filed and go through. This accident sure brought everyone together. We’re all closer than we’ve ever been before. It is just hard having a friend die right in front of your eyes.

That is why when you corrected me about my using the wrong “wear” pissed me off. It wasn’t the time nor the place. However, I’m still quite bummed, I can just share it better now. So if I’m a bit snappy the next couple of weeks, I apologize, but this has been pretty rough. Or as the comic book store guy from The Simpsons would say “Worst. Weekend. Ever.”

…damn

Holy shit.

Wow, i dont even know what to say, thats so sad. Im sorry.

I can say that it was horrible, but you know everything we’re all going to say.

But just, wow. I can only imagine how the scenario played out. Only imagine.

I have lost a friend in a car accident once too.

Good thing that you can have no problems talking about it and it seems you got no big injuries.

Now forgive me, but I must say it: I thought that being a marine, you should deal with death more coldly.

Originally posted by Ren
Now forgive me, but I must say it: I thought that being a marine, you should deal with death more coldly.

We still care about friends. Besides, I didn’t tell you guys about the details out of respect for my friends. I’m fine for the most part. We don’t deal with it coldly though. We jsut don’t let it interfere with our mission. It’s not like it is something easy to train for anyway. Not only that, but in our training, when someone does get hurt we look away, we don’t look at it, like I did. Besides, it is a little harder when your friend is killed and another injured by another friend.

I would have to say that though yes he’s a marine, I don’t think that you can really be trained for seeing your friends randomly thrown out of a barreling vehicle on a highway and potentially killed and severely harmed in grotesque ways. State of mind kinda helps in these situations too.

Seeing a friend fly threw the air out a vehicle and roll over another (it didn’t touch him, but went over him) is pretty crazy. Besides, I was fine with my friends. I got most of them calm (some just wanted to be alone). In a combat situation, I’ll be with other Marines, so I won’t be alone, so I’ll be pretty calm then too. I’ll be a joking motherfucker, but I’ll be fine.

Originally posted by Ren
I have lost a friend in a car accident once too

I hope that this isn’t too intrusive, but did you see your friend die in a car accident, or did your friend just die in an accident and you heard about it?

My friend who died in a car accident, I didn’t see. I have seen worse, a friend of mine having his neck broken. That would go on another topic, though, since I don’t want to derail this one.

Originally posted by Ren
My friend who died in a car accident, I didn’t see. I have seen worse, a friend of mine having his neck broken. That would go on another topic, though, since I don’t want to derail this one.

I can’t imagine an accident scene much worse than what this was. Unless there were several casalties, several deaths, you saw the accident happen, AND you knew the people, it seems sort of hard to believe you’ve seen worse. Even my Mom doesn’t belive she’s had it worse having her suster die in a car accident since she didn’t actually see it.

Sorry, Nick. I said worse relatively to my friend who died in a car accident, not yours. I don’t think my case was any worse than yours.

Originally posted by Devillion
[b]Holy shit.

Wow, i dont even know what to say, thats so sad. Im sorry. [/b]

What a horrible thing to have happen at the beginning of the new year… or at any time, for that matter. :\ I’m so sorry… and I wish you all the best.

A relative of mine (grandpa from another side of the family) was killed in a car crash by a careless driver, so I can kind of understand what you’re going through.

All I can offer are my condolences. I’m very sorry.

Sorry is all I can say really. I hope it never happens to you again.

Holy shit. Man are you ok?