Ever see dead people, while driving?

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
06/10/2015 at 13:56 • Filed to: None

I have seen 3, the first one being stuck in traffic in the BQE in NYC in the back of my moms Chevette. It was rolled up in a carpet. I asked my mom what the man was doing sleeping on the side of the road. I only ask because I have a friend who came across someone who had gotten hit and runned this morning - then run over a few more times.

Kind of morbid, but there has to be some good stories here.

DISCUSSION (28)

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 13:57

Passed a biker who got run over by a truck once. Yeah... That was gnarly.

Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 14:01

I have some sort of “luck”, I have seen at least 4 dead people from traffic accidents. Once was particulary nausia inducing( and I have really strong stomach) - a biker which head was more or less jelly.

cletus44 aka Clayton Seams > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 14:02

I remember driving near Kelowna BC. Lonely highway, no one for miles type of thing. And down a ravine along the outside of a turn was a car on fire about 75-100 ft down. Too crumpled/burned to know what type of car it was but there was no movement from within and no way to get down there. I doubt they had any survivors.

BigBlock440 > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 14:02

Passed a motorcycle in the median one morning. It was dark, but there was a bigger lump somewhere near enough to the bike that it could have been on it at one point. It was dark, there were flashing lights, and I was going 70-ish, so I didn’t get a good look. I don’t know how they ended up fairing, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the did not make it.

I do see lots of dead not-people though.

505Turbeaux > cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
06/10/2015 at 14:02

oh man, wow

Snuze: Needs another Swede > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 14:03

Saw the aftermath of a wicked accident a couple years ago on I-95 north of Baltimore. I don’t know the details but it appeared the car was heading southbound and lost control, ran up one of those concrete embankments under an overpass, slammed into the bottom of the overpass, then spun/rolled/flipped back down the embankment before landing upside down on the shoulder. There were multiple police, ambulances, and firetrucks on the scene, and 2 or 3 “lumps” under white sheets laying on the shoulder next to the car.

A few weeks ago I was coming around the DC Beltway on the south side and just before the Woodrow Wilson Bridge there was a car on the side of the road with a bunch of police cars around it and a few panel vans marked “Forensics Evidence Unit”, and they were wheeling a stretcher covered in a sheet into the back of one of the vans.

Slave2anMG > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 14:03

Everybody I see driving a Camry is, technically speaking, dead.

duurtlang > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 14:09

Not really. I very, very rarely see crashed cars to begin with.

505Turbeaux > duurtlang
06/10/2015 at 14:11

oddly enough not a single one of mine was due to a crash, 2 homicides and a heart attack (she was still behind the wheel but had pulled over)

duurtlang > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 14:21

The heart attack one must have been the least gruesome of those three. It’s the most probable one of those I could see here, given our low homicide rate that’s 80% lower than the US one.

RallyWrench > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 14:24

Spooky. I was first to come up on a terrible crash once at night, a family in a Saturn had hit a bridge abutment when the driver fell asleep. Terrible, terrible thing. The car just disintegrated around them and came to rest in the middle of 101. Front passenger was dead, but there was a baby in the middle of the rear that was perfectly oblivious to what had happened, and the others were in shock. It was a really eerie juxtaposition. I was with a couple of buddies at the time, and after doing what we could for the crash victims and traffic until the CHP arrived, we pulled over down the road and just sat there for a bit, then called our girlfriends.

505Turbeaux > duurtlang
06/10/2015 at 14:48

oh yeah I drove by someone with their face on the steering wheel and the horn going off. Something told me they were too still so I went back. Old lady just bit it, seatbelt still on. About 150 cars had gone by at least before someone stopped. Way back before cell phones, I had to flag someone down to go call 911

505Turbeaux > RallyWrench
06/10/2015 at 14:50

jesus man. I did see the aftermath of a Trabant going into an abutment on the Autobahn well after the authorities got there. I can only imagine

RallyWrench > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 15:00

It was easily one of the heaviest things I’ve ever seen. The car had a roof box with a drum set in it, which left the car and was all over the road. We were all in a sort of shock as well, and I remember thinking in that sort of disconnected state (and feeling terrible for it) that it must have sounded like a cartoon car crash. I was also impressed by how well the Saturn saved 4 of its 5 occupants, I respected them a lot more after that. The car impacted on the right so the poor passenger never had a chance.

505Turbeaux > RallyWrench
06/10/2015 at 15:05

I can picture it too well in my mind unfortunately

Agrajag > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 15:24

I’ve driven past some accidents where I’m sure someone died but never witnessed the body myself. A friend of mine was one of the many people to call the police on their way to work when this happened.

505Turbeaux > Agrajag
06/10/2015 at 15:26

damn. I would have freaked the fuck out seeing someone in pieces like that. I did see a dude stuffed in a trunk after a few months with my EMT buddies.

mazda616 > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 15:31

Nope. Never seen a bad accident with a human. But plenty with animals. One time we hit a beagle puppy and I felt him go under the car (a 2000 Corolla) and bounce against the undercarriage under my feet. I was 10 or 11. Went home and cried. It was very disturbing. I was and still am a huge animal lover (but not to the point of being a vegetarian - I love steak). My stepdad had slammed on the brakes at the time he saw the dog but there was just no time to stop. He ran right out in front of us.

Then I have been in about four car verses deer accidents. Those are always gnarly because they only seem to happen at high speed.

WiscoProud > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 15:39

Never confirmed, but I think I saw a dead guy in Chicago a number of years back on the west side. Basically my friends who lived west of the city wanted to go to Cobra Lounge and drove through the west side around 9-10pm (not a great idea). At one intersection I see a bum slouching sideways on a bench real uncomfortable looking. Hours later after we’ve had our fun we drove back through the west side around 4-5am (really not a great idea) and the guy was still there in the same position. Its possible he was sleeping, but not likely.

I also saw a biker on the edens spur who had got in an accident. When we drove by he was on his side staring into traffic while being attended to. However, it appears he lived. Could've fooled me.

Ballzonya > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 16:39

I had a front row view of a motorcycle/truck collision on I 93 in New Hampshire. The accident happened in front of me about a quarter mile, so I didnt see exactly what happened. The truck ended up on it’s side, spilling gravel all over the road, which blocked every lane except the left shoulder. The bike was demolished and the rider was about 50-75 feet away from the bike and was not moving...his shoes and contents of his backpack were all over the road. Police, EMS, and fire showed up quickly (10 mins) and began working on the motocycle driver. About ten minutes after that a helecopter landed on the highway and took the motorcyclist away. The driver of the truck had to be helped/extracted from the cab, but walked to the ambuliance under his own power.

After getting home, I saw on the news that the driver of the bike lost his life.

My citroen won't start > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 16:44

With the amount of bikes used here as fast/cheap transport I’ve seen quite a lot of dead bikers. Never seen a dead dog/cat/aminal though (on the road)

505Turbeaux > My citroen won't start
06/10/2015 at 16:48

that is odd compared to here, but our bikers are a different breed

My citroen won't start > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 16:53

Yeah, but I can’t complain, they are the reason I can have anything I want delivered at any time. Especially when I forget I should be dieting and order McDonalds at 2 AM.

DipodomysDeserti > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 17:33

Passed a guy who had passed out in the street and then had his head run over. That was gnarly

505Turbeaux > DipodomysDeserti
06/10/2015 at 19:13

damn, just damn

The Compromiser > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 21:07

My dad did. He was one of those “run over the dead guy#57” on a major freeway in the middle of the night like you mentioned. He saw a lot of that stuff. He was a bus driver, so whenever the trains through the area got delayed, he would get called in to pickup the train passengers. One time it was when a train hit a car in a crossing. The 3 people in the car were rolled up and fit into one bodybag; dad, daughter and grandchild. The bus was right up to the exit on the train so the passengers didnt have to see it. The guy driving the bus was right there staring at it though for half an hour.... and then the second one was when the train went through a road grader. Only one body. Many pieces, but only one body.

505Turbeaux > The Compromiser
06/10/2015 at 21:13

oh man...the truth of the highway right there

The Compromiser > 505Turbeaux
06/10/2015 at 21:28

I used to drive truck and had a couple of ones where there I came upon the incident, but nothing that I could see. Four trucks at high speed on the highway, late at night, in thick fog.... first one likely survived. Last one turned at the last moment but still slammed into the trailer of the previous. Sideways. A lot of burnt truck and trucker.