Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
I'm not exactly sure yet. I know it was a girl, but I didn't recognize the car. I stopped and got out to see what I could maybe do, and so did plenty of other people, but when I saw the "parts" laying in the street I had to leave. There was obviously no rescue work to be done at that point.
I'm still waiting for the local news to update the story, it's only a couple sentences about the accident happening. Nothing specific.
Was she going fast?
I didn't see the initial impact because a pickup truck was in front of me and it kind of blocked the beginning of the accident, but dude, she must have been going fast as hell for the car to be completely split into 2 halves. I've never seen anything like that before.
When I was a teenager I volunteered for my local fire dept, and one of my first calls ever was a triple fatality car accident. I was one of the guys who stabilized the vehicle so it could be cut apart. That was pretty nasty, and apparently the vehicle did like 15 flips before it snapped a telephone pole halfway up. But that vehicle was still one piece.
This was totally different. Plus, with that other one, they were already dead when I got there. This time, I witnessed the last seconds of the girl's life. There's something really morbid about that.
Real life is surely a lot different than the internet, eh?
I see where you got out to see if there was anything you could do.
but seriously dude, man up. I can't believe you've gone through life and this is the first thing like this you've seen. I thought you were a citified tough guy.
like i said earlier... it will pass.
trust me on this one