witnessed awful wreck 11/1 on 98 & hwy 11

[pinkytuscadero]

OK I haven't seen a wreck in a while. I've seen some fender benders and oopsies but last night at the intersection of HWY 11 and 98, the kids and I witnessed an accident.

We pulled up to the light to turn west onto 98. I was the 2nd car. The car in front of me just started going into the intersection although the light was red. We watched in horror as the car plowed into a vehicle moving east down 98. It was a horrible sound as the car on 98 was going hwy speed.:smt009 My kids were totally freaked out.

I watched it happen and it seem like the impact was in slow motion. Car parts and a wheel rolled out, it seemed as if it would hit us! :smt103 Anyway, I guess I wanted to share because it was kind of traumatic. It really made me think all night about the people in the car, the passenger especially. I hope they are ok.

My oldest was in the car and hopefully he realizes how fast something can happen in a vehicle. Oh, I sure do hope so.:cry:

[Conveyor Belt]

I had a similar experience. Sitting as the 2nd car waiting to turn onto 49 from the bypass. Light goes green, car in front of me goes I start to take my foot off the brake and BAM, a car blows the light and slams into the car that was in front of me. Full broadside hit. Both cars go careening off like billiard balls. Crazy. I've never entered a greenlight intersection without first verifying that cars on either side are stopped, and this kinda re-affirmed this for me.

[Hermione]

Pinky, I'm so sorry you guys had to see that. Hope some of our LE friends will update us on the folks involved.
I never enter an intersection without looking either. Learned that in New Orleans, where the idea of stopping at red lights was considered an interesting suggestion, but not a necessity.

[Bahlk]

Was it about 8:30 PM Thursday night? I heard the wreck go out over the scanner. One of the Fire/Rescue guys on the scene said there was minor injuries (thank goodness). At that intersection it could have been a whole lot worse

[TheCapitalist]

She and her family are close friends. I'm sure they appreciate the concern. By the grace of God she was shaken up but nothing broken, as already reported.

[Remington]

I had a front row seat to a wreck that haunted me for a while. I was in Louisiana and following a big tandem dump truck on a 2 lane highway. He was making a left turn into a little dirt driveway. Ahead of us, the road curved a few hundred yards ahead. After the dump truck turned into that road, he got stopped because it was soft dirt and his front tires sort of slid off of the driveway and the back end of the dump truck was sticking out in the road.

I started to go around him but then saw a car coming around the curve and looked like it was doing 90. It was a small car with 5 adults and one little girl around 5 and a 1 year old baby....no seat belts and no child seats. As I was started going around the dump truck, I saw the car coming and I hit the shoulder so that the car could use my lane to go around the dump truck since I could tell it would never stop in time.

When I got stopped, I was even with the back of the dump truck and watched the guy in the car finally see the dump truck and hit the brakes about a second before hitting the dump truck. I was only about 15 feet away and watched the car hit dead center into the back tires of the dump truck as everyone in the car went forward into the windshield.

The miraculous thing was that no one was killed, but only one guy got out of it without injuries. The 1 year old baby seemed to have the worst injuries because he was being held in the lap of the girl in the front seat. When we got around to that side, she was squeezed up against the windshield with the baby between her and windshield. About 4 ambulances and one helicopter (for the baby) were there and I stayed there for a couple of hours until I could finally get out of there. There were injured folks laying all around with EMTs tending to them. The police there measured the skid marks and the impact and estimate that the car was doing close to 100.

There were 4 distinct head impact points in the windshield. But I saw that impact over and over in my mind hundreds, if not thousands of times. I drove all the way back to Hattiesburg with people passing me......I was driving real slow.

[RGDoherty]

.......I still wake up some nights trying to start that IV through twisted metal until the Jaws could get there.

[Fishing Girl]

Like the story goes...people never learn. Seat belts & child seats should be used.

I have never witnessed a bad wreck..but have driven by after the fact. That is bad enough to view. :cry::cry:

My heart and prays go out to all involved in that crash.

[amanda]

Pinky - I went through that intersection right after it happened last night. Both kids were in the car and made the comment that people in Hattiesburg really should pay attention to red lights. I'm glad to hear that those involved had minor injuries.

[pinkytuscadero]

Was it about 8:30 PM Thursday night? I heard the wreck go out over the scanner. One of the Fire/Rescue guys on the scene said there was minor injuries (thank goodness). At that intersection it could have been a whole lot worse

Yes it was. I'm so glad to know the injuries were minor!:clap:

Pinky

[Maggie-Doodle]

Sounds kindda like the wreck that I was involved in back in 2002...I was headed east on 98 towards town...I was in the middle lane of traffic right in front of Popeyes...no one else was around me cause the red light by Lowe's had the traffic stopped...this jerk of an old man flew out of the parking lot by Popeye's and plowed into the right side of my new car...my car did 3 complete turns/spins on 98 and I ended up in the ditch facing west. I didn't appear too hurt at the time but since I have had to have knee surgery and it has left me disabled probably for life...several disc were messed up etc.etc... Just because you don't appear to be hurt at the time...doesn't mean you arn't. I pray they are ok...been there done that and it isn't fun. I am still suffering the consequences!

[firefly]

Back in the early 80's I was with some friends in their van & we were coming back home from a day on the coast. We were in the northbound lane of 49 headed back to the 'Burg. There was a stoplight on the other side of 49(the southbound lane) that was red. This car went flying through the red light & hit this little old man in a pick up truck as he was crossing the highway. It was as if in slow motion. I turned my head just in time to see the vehicles literally disintergrate right in front of my eyes! I could see the man in the truck fall forward into the steering wheel & blood sprayed all over the windshield. I was extremely upset & wanted my friends to stop to see if we could help, especially me being a cardiac nurse. My friend's husband said that he wasn't going to stop & I didn't want to "get involved" because "you will have to go to court & everything!" And he kept on driving! I prayed for that man all of the way home & that night when I went to bed. I couldn't get that image out of my mind for the longest time--it haunted me. And I will never for get it. It was like something out of a movie the way that the truck just disintergrated like it had bee blown up by a bomb or something...:smt009

[Kitty]

This accident sounds very much like the one we witnessed (and were nearly a part of) at the intersection of 589 and 98 at Bellevue.

We could see the cars were going to collide before they actually did, and there wasn't anything anyone could do except watch it happen and hopefully be out of the way.

Even the part about the tire coming off...in the case of this accident, a tire actually did roll into my front bumper, but no damages, thank goodness.

[birthdaybunnie]

Back in the early 80's I was with some friends in their van & we were coming back home from a day on the coast. We were in the northbound lane of 49 headed back to the 'Burg. There was a stoplight on the other side of 49(the southbound lane) that was red. This car went flying through the red light & hit this little old man in a pick up truck as he was crossing the highway. It was as if in slow motion. I turned my head just in time to see the vehicles literally disintergrate right in front of my eyes! I could see the man in the truck fall forward into the steering wheel & blood sprayed all over the windshield. I was extremely upset & wanted my friends to stop to see if we could help, especially me being a cardiac nurse. My friend's husband said that he wasn't going to stop & I didn't want to "get involved" because "you will have to go to court & everything!" And he kept on driving! I prayed for that man all of the way home & that night when I went to bed. I couldn't get that image out of my mind for the longest time--it haunted me. And I will never for get it. It was like something out of a movie the way that the truck just disintergrated like it had bee blown up by a bomb or something...:smt009

Did you ever find out the outcome of the man?
I swear it seems as if we have had more fatalities in the past two years on 59 and in Forrest and Jones counties. I sometime think that all these dam# illegals we have cause a good percentage of it. I have witnessed some that they have caused.