Tuesday, May 24, 2016

7:38

I was looking up your police report information for an appointment tomorrow and I had to track down the incident report #. When I found the picture of it that I sent to Jill, I noticed that the time of your accident was 7:38 am. That was the same time as the similar accident that Chad Hillborn and Jim Austin were involved in six months prior to yours with almost the same circumstances. He crossed the center line unexplainably (is that a word? Must be-nothing was autocorrected) and hit Jim's truck. Chad died at the scene I believe. Jim survived the accident but was badly injured. The explanation for that was that Chad fell asleep at the wheel. I think they determined that because he just came off of an overnight shift as some kind of corrections officer.

Why isn't the cause of these accidents important at all? The police seem satisfied to just write it off as distracted driving/asleep at the wheel. I know it's hard to figure out but it just seems like an afterthought or a catch-all reason when something can't be explained. Like how did they know for sure that Evan Kimball fell asleep at the wheel? Just because it was nighttime? People have died in these accidents-they are very serious!

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