Convertable and a Free Flight

Last evening, I was settling in to watch both the Marshall vs. Cincinnati college football game and the Major League playoffs - a sports fan's dream. All of a sudden my wife and I heard a vehicle come screaming past our home at an ultra high rate of speed - a safe speed on that stretch of road is 40-45 mph. Needless to say, we soon heard tires screeching and the sound of a mighty "thud . . ". I, as did my neighbors across the road (we live in the country - it's a road, not a street . . ) hopped in our trucks and took off. About a hundred yards down the road around the bend was a white vehicle with the front smashed beyond recognition lying on it's side. You could see where they cleaned out the ditch for about 200 feet, taking out a road sign, before hitting a rock jutting out into the ditch. There the car and it's passengers, met - and the rock won. The car was tipped up on the passenger's side, and what was left of the front was facing back up the hill - the direction from which it came. It just happened that a County Sheriff, who had a prisoner in his back seat, came by and stopped. We helped the driver who appeared, shall we say - "well oiled" - out of the vehicle. However, his two companions were not so fortunate. One, a "well oiled" lady in the back see happened to be wearing her seat belt. However, her back was badly messed up, and she began sliding from the not top seat to the bottom. One of my neighbors hopped in and helped support her. The other "well oiled" fellow was pinned on the now bottom front see. Neither he nor the driver had been wearing a seat belt. The fellow was pinned by his legs under the very compressed dash board. And to top it off, he was laying on their dog who was in also in a considerable amount of discomfort. Well, help arrived and we made a convertible out of the sedan, to extract the two remaining passengers. Turns out, the two trapped passengers were life flighted to Columbus. By the time I got back to the house, Marshall was down 33-10 to Cincy late in the 4th qtr and the Red Sox were up on the Angles, to eventually win that game as well. I recommend buying a convertible and purchasing your airline tickets next time you want to go to Columbus - and please, do it on someone else's road and well before kick-off . . .