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Police Report from accident

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 1:30 pm

Barbarellany · Decorated Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 245

Why would they be referring the case for possible prosecution if they have already deemed the truck driver at fault, dead and unknown? Standard proceedure?

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 1:47 pm

Tien_Le

RE: police report

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 2:30 pm

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INFO: police report

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 2:45 pm

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asmyth · Veteran Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 71

Just deleted my post since it's the same email. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:01 pm

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dmax

witness data

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:03 pm

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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

LazarusLong

As a former paramedic who's been on the scene of more than a few accidents, I think this stinks to high heaven.

In the case of a collision on the driver-side front quarter, one of two things will occur:

1: The driver's door will pop open, ejecting the driver if unbelted.
2: The driver's door will be jammed, requiring pry bar or jaws to open.

In this case, if Dale was ejected at the time of impact, he would have been thrown in a NNE direction, possibly impacting the side of the other vehicle. The fact that he was discovered 50 feet ESE of the impact point defies the laws of physics.

So we have to assume that Dale was not ejected from the vehicle, but got out after the accident, and somehow made his way to the opposite side of the road (approximately 30 feet from the final position of vehicle 2, by the scale shown), where he collapsed. As there is no evidence (either from Dale or the witnesses) as to what happened immediately after the collision, this seems to be the only likely scenario.

There is no accident investigation data presented. Normally, there would be skid mark data, estimated speed of travel for both vehicles, etc. Since Dale was heading into a T intersection, he would have been slowing to make a turn (either left or right). Yet both vehicles are shown equidistant from the point of impact at the 1.5 second mark, indicating that they were moving at the same speed. This doesn't make sense.

Contrary to the movies, vehicles do not burst into flames on impact, especially in the case of a front end collision. A fire may develop after the collision due to leaking fuel, but it is unlikely the both vehicles would be engulfed in flames, as the final position of the vehicles shows them not to be in contact.

Why was the last investigation comment redacted from the report, and where are the last two pages (note that we have been given pages 1 of 4 and 2 of 4). These are questions to raise at the press conference.

By the way, there is an Isuzu F-Series stake bed. Check the Isuzu Commercial Vehicle site at http://www.isuzucv.com/index.html
A photo of a stake bed version is located at http://www.isuzucv.com/businessuses/landscaping.html

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:42 pm

asmyth · Veteran Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 71

And here I was assuming the accident had occured naturally. Wink

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:59 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 5:05 pm

dmax

Weird thought

**Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 5:48 pm

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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

lanzz · Boot Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 25

Re: Police Report from accident

**Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2003 5:00 am

mopi

copy of police report on archive

**Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:24 am

RPGgame · Unfettered Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 501

Re: copy of police report on archive

**Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2003 11:37 am

idaswears · Greenhorn Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Minnesota

Map from Police Report

**Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:31 pm