Life is Precious
I'm usually pretty light-hearted on the blog, but I felt an obligation to share a story that touched our lives over the weekend.
Returning home Friday evening, we noticed that 30th Avenue was blocked off right around where it intersects with our street, and there were lots of blinking lights from police and fire department vehicles. After taking an alternate route home, we walked (less than a quarter of a mile) to the scene of the accident. We learned from several of the onlookers that a motorcycle accident had occurred earlier in the evening.
We took a few pictures with our cell phone camera as the Flight For Life helicopter arrived on the scene.
Someone exited the helicopter and brought a stretcher over to the ambulance before entering the ambulance himself. After several minutes of no activity, I was saddened when the stretcher was brought back to the helicopter. The ambulance left the scene with the siren on, and the helicopter took off shortly after that.
We weren't able to find anything on the internet about the accident. However, when I went out for a run the next morning, I saw this on the tree near where the accident occurred:
Even today, there are still signs of the tragedy that occurred:
We learned the whole story when we read this article on the Journal Times web site today.
Though I didn't know him, my thoughts and prayers go out to Mike's family and friends. May they find comfort and strength in this time of mourning.
Returning home Friday evening, we noticed that 30th Avenue was blocked off right around where it intersects with our street, and there were lots of blinking lights from police and fire department vehicles. After taking an alternate route home, we walked (less than a quarter of a mile) to the scene of the accident. We learned from several of the onlookers that a motorcycle accident had occurred earlier in the evening.
We took a few pictures with our cell phone camera as the Flight For Life helicopter arrived on the scene.
Someone exited the helicopter and brought a stretcher over to the ambulance before entering the ambulance himself. After several minutes of no activity, I was saddened when the stretcher was brought back to the helicopter. The ambulance left the scene with the siren on, and the helicopter took off shortly after that.
We weren't able to find anything on the internet about the accident. However, when I went out for a run the next morning, I saw this on the tree near where the accident occurred:
Even today, there are still signs of the tragedy that occurred:
We learned the whole story when we read this article on the Journal Times web site today.
Though I didn't know him, my thoughts and prayers go out to Mike's family and friends. May they find comfort and strength in this time of mourning.
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