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It’s been a while since I’ve seen dead bodies.. While traveling with my fiance to finish cleaning one more bank, we stumbled upon a line of cars pulling over on the side of the road. Getting closer there was a 2 car colission. The first thing I did was jump out of the car then grab my HT and hit the local repeater. N9UDO (I believe) relayed my request for police and medical.

I got up to the scene and it was a mess. Someone was in the red car giving the trapped driver CPR and asked if they should continue. I knew that wasn’t a good sign. The driver of the black car was outside the car kneeling complaining of severe abdominal pain. Someone said something about a baby… but I didn’t hear any crying.

Minutes after the crash, numerous civilians jumped out and helped the scene. Some were nurses and EMS, others were moral support for the sole survivor. I haven’t seen an accident this bad in a long time, it hit me hard, but what made me feel good was the fact that even untrained civilians would stop everything and come to help in any way, shape or form they could.

I wish I had my truck at the time, it had more supplies than my fiance’s car. But  this is only a dire reminder of how prepaired I need to be. This is going to be something that I will have to bring up to the YTARC and Sauk Co. ARES/RACES in the following two tuesdays. It’s nice to help but nicer to be well prepaired.

The full news article is available here: http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/311349