So on our way home tonight we got a call from a friend who lives in Somerset asking if we were at home yet. When I said we were on our way, she wished us good luck getting there. Turns out there was an unreal accident right outside the entrance to our street tonight. We drove up there and sure enough, getting to our house was a nightmare. Dozens of police, fire trucks, ambulances, ect were there blocking a HUGE section of road off. We got out of the car and started to ask what had happened.
From what we could figure out from the dozens standing there was that there was a street race southbound down a residential road (Bridleridge way) between a silver pathfinder and some sort of civic. The pathfinder jumped the curb on the right side, plowed over a bus stop sign and hit three people. At this point it is important to mention that one of these three was in a wheelchair. That's where the blood drops started. From there it looks like the two walking people possibly bounced off the car or got out of the way while the wheelchair (and it's passenger) were stuck on the front of the car and was then taken with the out of control vehicle across the two lanes of the road and the poor soul ended up between the front grill of the pathfinder and a tree on the center grass median.
Apparently the two have been taken to hospital with serious injuries and the poor wheelchair bound victim was laying under a yellow tarp, dozens of pieces of the chair scattered within the near by couple of feet.
According to a few people there, it was a hit and run. Now before the news story comes out and everyone is like "No Melinda, you were totally wrong, this is really what happened..." I will repeat that we only talked to neighbors who had been there longer than we had and talked to one guy of the press. Any or all of these details could be false or somewhat unclear. I just thought that perhaps if any of it was true (specifically the hit and run part and the silver pathfinder part) then it might be worth it to get it up on beyond and put the word out incase someone knows anyone who might have been involved in this situation.
Truly gruesome scene, I definately feel for the family(ies) of the victims, especially the one who lost his/her life. RIP to that victim and much luck to the other two suffering. To the driver(s), ROT IN HELL. There is no way that accident could have happened while going at a reasonable residential speed and BOTH drivers are just as much to blame.