I sincerely hope everyone reads this ~ really reads it ...

[-The Stig-]

sorry for the kid... aways bad when anybody gets hurt in a car doing anything...

[youngvr4]

i lost a friend do to speeding flew out the window, no seatbelt just this last august. he died on the scene, flew off a bridge came to a complete stop and flew out. his eye came out his socket

javon R.I.P

samantha R.I.P

[drftk1d]

zomg when i looked at the pics i got bothered. like shook, scared whatever. cause i frequent roads like that often.

my condolences to whomever lost their lives driving

[VirusxXx]

I appreciate everyone's thoughts.

I'll just throw out some stuff that i've found out since i wrote the letter and that i wasn't clear on in it. I apologize for any spelling mistakes or anything, today's been pretty rough.

The car was a 91 Turbo... we likely would have both walked away fine but the car slid into the trestle and hit the at about the front right quarter panel and then pivoted around and hit the passenger side. Sam recieved a massive head injury from the side inpact, I don't know what she hit her head on...

There was an accident report, but I haven't been able to get ahold of it. I have no recollection of how fast I was going... I would assume if I had seen the 15 mph sign I would have been aiming for 35/40 mph at most, but the way it was previously marked it wasn't very hard to miss the sign at night. Coming out of the previous turn I might have been going 60-65 ish. I would imagine I would have slowed down from that since I couldn't really see what the turn was doing up ahead. the 35-40 I listed was an estimate i had gotten from other people, I don't know anything about these things, its the first accident I'd ever been involved in. I sent some pictures to Jekyl, maybe someone could give a better estimate. I know the absolute fastest I went on that road was 80, and that was on a long long straight away. I am very confident that I wasn't going anything over 60. Someone told me the speed limit through there is 35, though when i went back the only posted sign I saw was for 45. I wasn't really scoping for signs though.

Looking at the crash site I'm pretty sure that it happened something like this. I came up and started into the turn before seeing the trestles. I paniced when I saw the trestle come up and how the road curved, and started trying to slow down as much as I could, mistake i know, but I mean, everything goes so fast. So I was in the middle of the turn, braking moderately, careful not to lock the tires, and then the road surface changed from the nice smooth asphalt that was repaved last year to the old stuff under the counties jurisdiction. I was already in the turn, it didn't get any sharper at the point I lost it, if not for the surface change I WOULD have made it through. I locked the front tires for a split second about a foot after the transition and then the right side went off into the gravel and it was basically game over. Went off the road and caught the edge of trestle. Another 3 or 4 feet to the right, if i'd lost control a tenth of a second sooner, and we would have caught the edge of the trestle right on the front left quarter and the car would have slid down this gravel road into some bushes. We would have both walked away. Probably if i'd gone into the turn 3 or 4 miles an hour slower my mistake wouldn't have resulted in me losing control, and probably 10 miles an hour slower we could have crashed the exact same way and everything would have been fine.

*Sigh*

It's rough, I hope someone can take something away from it