On Friday, Karl and I were getting ready to walk out the door to take Hudson to his two week check up when all of the sudden we heard breaks screaching, LOUD. I had my hand on the door knob and Karl was standing in front of the window. He looked over just in time to see a speeding truck hit a minivan that was turning around. The truck continued on and hit a power pole in front of our house and the van made its way on to our neighbors lawn. We ran out there and in the 2 seconds it took us to get to them the driver of the truck and the passenger of the minivan were already out of their cars screaming every word in the dictionary at each other. Karl went over and told them to knock it off, that didn't help. My crazy mom got in between them and the passenger told her to get out of his face. Meanwhile I am helping the driver of the minivan who has a head injury but is walking around trying to get her husband to calm down. Her husband sees her and for a moment stops to "see" if she is ok. He than turns back to the other guy and says "look at my wife!" with a few other words in between. Karl again tells him to back off what does the guy do, he punches the other driver in the jaw. All of the sudden my cousin, who is the Lt. in town is pulling in to our drive way. He tells the guy to calm down and the guy keeps on and then he shoves my cousin, oops wrong thing to do to a cop. The next thing I know the passenger is on the ground being choked out by my cousin. Wow, this is crazy. His poor wife is laying on the ground, bleeding, talking to her mom on the phone and trying to tell her husband to stop. Don't worry he's stopped he has a cop sitting on top of him telling him if he's ready to calm down that he will release the pressure on his wrist.
Well I've had all the excitement I can handle. I go back inside to watch with Sam and Karter from the sidelines. It's funny to watch all the passerbys. Their heads turn as far as they can for as long as they can so they can take it all in.
The accident was the guy driving the trucks fault. Both cars were traveling the same way, the van was stopped to turn left and the guy in the truck must not have been paying attention, it was his brakes we heard and he swurved to miss them just as they turned left. He was ticketed for following to close. But the passenger is in way more trouble. He was charged with two counts of battery, one for punching the guy the other for assaulting a police officer. So the guy who caused the accident got an iffraction and the other guy has two misdeamenors(sp). Temper, temper.