Wow! That's gotta hurt!!!

[Major Kong]

Ouch! (Right click and save target as)

It's a chilling scene: a video clip shows a vehicle as it speeds through an intersection and runs broadside into another car; a pedestrian crossing the street breaks into a run to run to get out of the way of the out-of-control vehicles, but the struck car rolls on top of him. The video is all the more chilling because it isn't a scene from a movie, nor is it the product of special effects wizardry — it's the real thing, captured by a red-light enforcement camera.

The accident seen in the video occurred at 12:40 p.m. on 23 May 2004 at the intersection of Third Street and Edwin C. Moses Boulevard in Dayton, Ohio. Betty J. Hayslip, 75, of New Lebanon, driving a PT Cruiser, ran a red light and struck a Subaru driven by Albertina L. Walker, 41, of Dayton. The collision caused the Subaru to roll over one and a half times; it came to rest upside-down and in the process crashed into pedestrian Scott Tegtmeyer, 42, of Dayton.

Tegtmeyer, who was crossing the street in the same direction as the PT Cruiser and had just reached the curb on the opposite side, can be seen in the video breaking into a desperate run as the collided vehicles bear down on him. He could not react quickly enough, however, and the Subaru rolled atop of him, dragging him several feet across the intersection. Although medics who found Tegtmeyer's bloodied body amidst a sea of broken glass initially pronounced him dead at the scene, he began breathing while in transit with paramedics and was fully resuscitated by doctors. (As of 2 June 2004, Tegtmeyer was reported as being in serious condition at Miami Valley Hospital.)

Investigators said that at the time of the accident the crosswalk signal was red, and therefore Tegtmeyer should not have been crossing the street. They also reported that Tegtmeyer miraculously escaped alive because the dent in the side of the Subaru caused by the crash created a hollow space that allowed the vehicle to roll over him without crushing him to death. Neither vehicle was carrying any passengers, and both drivers escaped with only minor injuries.

The crash was captured by one of the automated red-light enforcement cameras installed at a dozen intersections around Dayton to help reduce crashes caused by drivers running red lights. Each camera records 12-second motion videos used to issue citations to offending motorists.

[WebHead]

Dayum!

[Radical Dreamer]

PT cruiser driver should be shot

[FatalException0E]

So the ped survived....bet he didn't feel too good, though.

[jaeger]

Betty J. Hayslip, 75, of New Lebanon, driving a PT Cruiser, ran a red light and struck a Subaru

And this is what we get when it is politically incorrect to test reflexes and administer regular driving test on senior citizens. To quote Cheif Wiggum "It's ironic that the old people are kept alive by the organs of the young people they run over."

[Darksteel]

o.O That was Dayton?! I heard nothing of this. I guess I mustve still been at college when it happened.

[WebHead]

I'll bet a million bucks that elderly driver dozed off at the wheel.

[gazzak]

I'll bet a million bucks that elderly driver dozed off at the wheel.

Have to disagree because just before impact there was an attempt to swerve to the left to avoid the crash, (a not very good attempt). I take cash only Webby, thanks

[Jediab]

For anyone who might ever have played the old game Beach Head 2, all I have to say is, "MEDIC!"

[Wayward Clam]

The elderly are less dangerous than the drunks...

[jaeger]

The elderly are less dangerous than the drunks...

The elderly that can't drive should be taken off the road, drunks that drive should just be lined up and shot.

[Cleetus]

Anybody see that episode of South Park?

[FatalException0E]

Anybody see that episode of South Park?

I guess I haven't. Care to enlighten?

[Titchski]

The elderly that can't drive should be taken off the road, drunks that drive should just be lined up and shot.

That would be 75% of the traffic down here taken care of then

[GrandDad]

The elderly that can't drive should be taken off the road, drunks that drive should just be lined up and shot.

are you talking bad
about us old folk






we beto our
8-track tapes and may miss a light or two now and then


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