Yet Another Fatal Car Accident

October 5th, 2006

I was thinking that we were done with car accidents when I got a call from the State Patrol. A car accident took place down by Red Wolf Bridge. A guy in a Dodge Neon went into the cliff side at about eighty miles per hour. He car would normally have a wheel base of one-hundred and four inches. His car was about fifty-eight inches. He pretty much died nearly instantly. The car also burst into flames.

I got on scene and took photos there. Then we took it down the road so Lewiston Fire could extricate the guy from the car. I had the body taken to Kimballs where I did more investigation. I spent some time on the phone talking to family and witnesses. It turned out that the call was a suicide. This call had a lot of firsts for me. My first burn victim. My first suicide by myself. My first time dealing with another coroners office. It was interesting over all to see how back the crash was. The cops and firefighters all agreed it was the worst one they had ever seen.


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