I saw a scary, really serious car accident today, on Cactus just east of Cave Creek. I pulled into the QT to get gas, and noticed the accident across the street. It must have just happened a minute before I got there.

There was a truck, flipped over, and the passenger cab was totally and utterly flattened. And I heard onlookers (who congregated at the gas station) say that there was someone inside it. Or was it even still someone? Maybe by that point it was already just a body.

There were people standing all around, and five or so right nearby-I think the ones nearby were from other car(s) involved in the accident, because they sure as hell weren't from the truck.

Two minutes later, the ambulance, a fire truck, and three cop cars arrived. I pulled slowly out of the gas station and drove away, thoroughly shaken. Usually I'm pretty callous about these things, but I felt sick to my stomach and trembly. Someone probably just died a few hundred feet from me, maybe while I was watching. I don't know how they could have survived.

On my way home, on the same route, I saw them load the truck onto a towtruck-by that point the body/person had been removed and it was just a completely totaled truck. I drove behind it for a while on the way home and I felt like I was seeing a ghost.

I wonder how it happened.



I need something cheerful.