So this Friday I was for the first time in my life in a courtroom. I was there because I was the only eyewitness to a inadvertent manslaughter of 3 ppl in a car accident. The driver was intoxicated, drove way to fast, like 130-150 kmh (80-93 mph), ran a red light and thus hit a car which had a green light in the same intersection. The driver didn't even apply the brakes, he just smashed into the other car with roughly 140 kmh. In the other car were 3 men on there way home from work.
This was in the middle of the night (1 am) back in November. I was walking home from a conference dinner where I have had only like 5 or 6 draught beer. When i reached this intersection I had a red man (you know... a no go) but i still crossed the first half of the road (it was a 4 lane road in total), when i began crossing the 2nd part of the road I still had a red man until halfway out when it changed to green. At the exact moment that i reached the other side of the road I heard this big bang followed by smaller bang. I turned around and saw two cars smashed together. The small bang was because the cars had crashed into the relay box which controlled the traffic signal lights. I ran over to the two cars, and the drive of the car that had run the red light got out of his car (small red 3 door Citroen) and was shocked like you couldn't imagine and didn't respond to what I said to him. I turned to the passenger seat and saw another boy with cuts and blood all over his face. He opened the door and kinda threw himself out of it and on to the curb grass. I talked to him and found out that they were all from the republic of Estonia, so they didn't understand any danish only English. I looked into the backseat and saw 3 girls just sitting there screaming and crying, but they looked like they were unharmed. I then went to the 2nd car (A silver colored Ford). Couldn't see anything so i turned on the LED light in my cell phone. Then i could see everything. I saw the driver of the car folded together with bones sticking out from his back and barely any face left. He lay on top of another guy in the backseat sticking out of the back window. The guy on the passenger seat was using a seat belt, but he was still dead at impact. He had blood from the mouth, a clearly broken neck, and a massive cut from the seat belt into his body. I could do nothing for them...so I just call it in. The only time i panicked was when the light from my cell phone caught a child seat in the back of the car, I searched for a child the best I could, I even moved one of the 2 dead men laying in the back (as much as possible of course) to see if I could see a child....but there were no child in the car thank god.
Moments after some retards showed up and tried to take pictures of the dead ppl with there cell phones, i simply knocked one of the down and threw his cell phone as fare away as I could. The other guys just left then. Then the police and some ambulances arrived shortly after that.
This was in November, and Friday the 29 of Feb. the driver stood trial for his involvement in the accident. He was only 22 years old, a student at the local business collage, and where driving a company car. He had been to a tequila party (????) downtown with his friends, which he offered to drive home afterwards. He look like a normal guy, nothing bad in him at all. He just fucked up i guess. I felt sorry for him. I looked at him when I in detail described to court what I had seen that night. He was with out a doubt remorseful. He was found guilty of all charges and sentenced 2 years in jail and to be deported to Estonia when he had served his time in jail. I saw how his mother and brothers broke down crying, I saw how his friends broke down crying all the while the relatives to the 3 dead men was somewhat cheering. I have never ever felt so bad as i did that day. I was the only witness to the accident, and I was the one who proved that he ran a red light thus earning him a deportation and 2 years instead of only half a year in jail and no deportation...... to this moment I still feel unbelievable bad.
Mind you all there is a lot more details to this story which i just didn't wrote down, it may seem a bit incoherent or just like a rambling description of the events and I apologies for that. Just ask if you there is something that doesn't make any sense.
EDIT: You can see a picture of the remains of one of the cars here.
This was in the middle of the night (1 am) back in November. I was walking home from a conference dinner where I have had only like 5 or 6 draught beer. When i reached this intersection I had a red man (you know... a no go) but i still crossed the first half of the road (it was a 4 lane road in total), when i began crossing the 2nd part of the road I still had a red man until halfway out when it changed to green. At the exact moment that i reached the other side of the road I heard this big bang followed by smaller bang. I turned around and saw two cars smashed together. The small bang was because the cars had crashed into the relay box which controlled the traffic signal lights. I ran over to the two cars, and the drive of the car that had run the red light got out of his car (small red 3 door Citroen) and was shocked like you couldn't imagine and didn't respond to what I said to him. I turned to the passenger seat and saw another boy with cuts and blood all over his face. He opened the door and kinda threw himself out of it and on to the curb grass. I talked to him and found out that they were all from the republic of Estonia, so they didn't understand any danish only English. I looked into the backseat and saw 3 girls just sitting there screaming and crying, but they looked like they were unharmed. I then went to the 2nd car (A silver colored Ford). Couldn't see anything so i turned on the LED light in my cell phone. Then i could see everything. I saw the driver of the car folded together with bones sticking out from his back and barely any face left. He lay on top of another guy in the backseat sticking out of the back window. The guy on the passenger seat was using a seat belt, but he was still dead at impact. He had blood from the mouth, a clearly broken neck, and a massive cut from the seat belt into his body. I could do nothing for them...so I just call it in. The only time i panicked was when the light from my cell phone caught a child seat in the back of the car, I searched for a child the best I could, I even moved one of the 2 dead men laying in the back (as much as possible of course) to see if I could see a child....but there were no child in the car thank god.
Moments after some retards showed up and tried to take pictures of the dead ppl with there cell phones, i simply knocked one of the down and threw his cell phone as fare away as I could. The other guys just left then. Then the police and some ambulances arrived shortly after that.
This was in November, and Friday the 29 of Feb. the driver stood trial for his involvement in the accident. He was only 22 years old, a student at the local business collage, and where driving a company car. He had been to a tequila party (????) downtown with his friends, which he offered to drive home afterwards. He look like a normal guy, nothing bad in him at all. He just fucked up i guess. I felt sorry for him. I looked at him when I in detail described to court what I had seen that night. He was with out a doubt remorseful. He was found guilty of all charges and sentenced 2 years in jail and to be deported to Estonia when he had served his time in jail. I saw how his mother and brothers broke down crying, I saw how his friends broke down crying all the while the relatives to the 3 dead men was somewhat cheering. I have never ever felt so bad as i did that day. I was the only witness to the accident, and I was the one who proved that he ran a red light thus earning him a deportation and 2 years instead of only half a year in jail and no deportation...... to this moment I still feel unbelievable bad.
Mind you all there is a lot more details to this story which i just didn't wrote down, it may seem a bit incoherent or just like a rambling description of the events and I apologies for that. Just ask if you there is something that doesn't make any sense.
EDIT: You can see a picture of the remains of one of the cars here.
Last edited by voodoodolphins (2008-03-02 15:08:32)