Truck wreck!

Yesterday was a crazy day! At about one thirty my dad got a phone call saying that my uncle Jeff had wrecked his semi-truck. I’m sure that some of you probably saw it on the news last night. It was where 96 and 43 intersect and the driver of the car failed to yield. Jeff had no choice but to slam on his brakes to try and stop. The problem was that his truck had a load of corn in it and all of that weight is hard to stop. Jeff said that when his truck hit their car from the back it spun around like a top. He went off of the road and then his truck fell over on to the drivers side. He said that he had to roll down the passenger window to crawl out. He was in now way responsible for the collision. When my grandmother got there she said that three of the four passengers had been taken to the hospital already. They then came for the fourth passenger. Jeff was just a little shook up and sore from the wreck but afterwards they had the problem of how to get the truck back in its upright position. Grandma said last night that she thought that they hadn’t even lost a bucket of the corn. A truck came and sucked out all of the corn from the trailer and put it in another truck. They then had two big wreckers come out and pull the truck upright. Jeff then drove the other loaded truck to Arkansas like he had planned.

That would have to take a lot of determination to wreck your truck and then continue driving one that same day. I know that after my wreck I didn’t want to drive for a little bit afterward. I couldn’t imagine lying over a huge truck like that. The force would have to be extraordinary. This has been a bad year for the family and car accident. It makes me worry about the rest of the family because it just shows how you can be doing nothing wrong at all and have a horrible accident.