Jack,
I would say you did you good deed for the week.
Todd
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Hilton III <HEMI@charter.net>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 2:03 PM
Subject: DML: R/T was stuck in a nightmare !!
>
>While on my way home from Atlanta at on Sunday night, I rolled up on an
>accident scene just one mile from my exit .
>
>I had gotten there before the police and fire , so I stopped to make sure
>everyone was alright and to try and keep others from crashing into the
>wreck .
>
>what had apparently happened was that an Overnite Transport tractor trailer
>(the ones that pull two tandem trailers at the same time) had gotten
>together with a ford Aspire (I always wondered what it was aspiring to be)
>and the rear trailer had become unhitched and flipped over against the
>guard rail , but in the lane of travel .
>
>So anyway , no-one was hurt , but I waited for the cops and the fire dept.
>and totry to make sure that no-one hit the wreck since it was dark , rainy
>and in heavy fog . A few came extremely close .
>
>My R/T was parked directly accross from the wreck on the shoulder .
>
>So the cops and the fire dept. get there and they start pokin' around and
>figure that this guy was hauling several drums of Hydrochloric Acid (HCL) .
>They immediately ordered everyone to get back from the wreck at a distance
>of no less than 700 feet in every direction . I was told that I could not
>retrieve my truck , but that I had to wait .
>
>They had to call a HAZMAT team from a neighboring town that was about 20
>minutes away .
>
>Don't ask me why , but I could still see the scene from where I was and we
>(myself , a couple of Firemen , and a State Trooper) did not see ANY
>activity until about 5am .
>
>I was worried that if there was a leak that the acid would do something to
>my paint or someone would hit it with a piece of equipment when they tried
>to up-right the trailer .
>
>They finally allowed us to go to the scene at 5:30am to get our vehicles
>and leave . Unfortunately my flashers had been going and my parking lights
>had been on and the battery was dead . Then they didn't want to jump us off
>because they feared either causing an explosion or damaging their equipment
>from a power surge !!
>
>FINALLY......they told us we could jump it off and I left at about 5:45am
!!
>
>When I left , they were still waiting on an EPA team from Atlanta to arrive
>and the interstate was still closed in both directions .
>
>It finally opened up at about noon that day .
>
>So I stop to help someone at about 11:30 , and I am kept there until
5:45am!!!
>
>Needless to say , I did not go to work on Monday .
>
>But , ya know , I would still stop to help someone ......I would want
>someone to stop for me .
>
>
>
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>
>Jack Hilton III
>
>Black 1998 Dodge Dakota R/T Club Cab
>
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>
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>
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>
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