Oh my! Can you imagine this tragedy? Woman kills FIL in freak accident.

[jacqui in mo]

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/15571887/detail.html

 

I just can't imagine. I also can't understand how people don't realize they are falling asleep while driving & pull over. My heart just goes out to this family.

 

Jacqui

[j.griff]

Wow, how horrific.

[Raders Fan]

Well, I can understand how it happens, because I did it. I knew I was tired, but I was immortal (18) and wanted to get home. I had never ever fallen asleep (since age 10 or so) without lying down to go to sleep. I rolled my car. The guy with me and another man who stopped, turned my car right side up (it was a little Honda), and my passenger drove us home.

 

My son fell asleep when my dad was teaching him how to drive. My dad happened to look over at him and saw that he was asleep. Needless to say, that lesson ended quickly.

 

In this family, we are very careful about how much and when we drive.

 

Jennifer

[sleepy]

that is so sad, I can't even imagine how badly the driver feels...

[jacqui in mo]

Wow, I'm glad you were not hurt! I guess falling asleep behind the wheel just creeps up on you unawares if you're really really fatigued.

[LizzyBee]

I also can't understand how people don't realize they are falling asleep while driving & pull over.

 

That is so sad. I cannot imagine having to face my dh and children after something like that.

 

One time last year after I worked all night, I was driving home and I snapped awake to find myself drifting toward to the other lane. Before that, I had never come close to falling asleep while driving no matter how tired I was. I told dh I am getting too old to pull all-nighters at work! I have a 30 minute drive, and that scared me bad enough that I will never drive home without a nap if I do end up staying there all night.

[KristineIN]

I can not imagine, what a freak accident. I've never fallen asleep, nor been close, I will not drive if I'm that tired. My cousin fell asleep, not once, but twice, the first time he ended up in a ditch right across the road from my grandmas house and was ok, the second time about two years later, he left my brothers house late, a friend was following him to make sure that he got home, about two miles from his house, he fell asleep, crossed the center line and hit a telephone pole, the friend witnessed the whole thing, my grandma remembers the electricity going out, waking up and thinking, someone hit a pole and then being woken up from my uncle to find out that it was my cousin. I remember it well because it was Mother's Day 2004. I got the call about 5:30 in the morning, worst Mother's Day I've ever had, he was dead on impact. It has been a hard death, he was like a brother to me, we grew up together on my grandparents farm and I don't know what he believed, although there were signs later that lead us to have hope (three pictures that were in his truck, a picture of him with my grandpa, who had died in 97, a picture of him and a classmate that was also killed in a car accident and a picture of a perfect wagon load of hay. Those were the "main" things in his glove box, like it was a sign. Anyway, sorry to get off topic, I just hate hearing about accidents like this. I will be praying for this family, it happened in Indiana.

 

Kristine

[Antonia]

I read somewhere that most drivers who fall asleep are not nodding off - they are awake and then, bam, they are asleep. Many "unexplained" crashes are attributed to this (and insects, but that's another thread).

[Sasha]

We're actually close family friends with these people and it's a horrible situation.

[jacqui in mo]

Oh wow! It is just horrible. I've been praying for the family. I couldn't believe it when I heard about it.