Props to you man!!! I don't know many people that would do what you did. Your a
great guy. Just letting you know how I feel
Mike
Jack Hilton III wrote:
> 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
>
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>
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>
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>
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-- Michael D.Wants a 99R/T RC Got a 84 Chrysler LaserXE
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