Worse thing you've seen? Is this question good for reminding us to be safe?

Question

I was fishing a navagatable river channel in Michigan. Strong current, wide and deep. Two men had a skiff ready to board off a jetty across from me. As one stepped into boat, boat spun. He went right down and I never saw him again. Other man ran for help. I sat down and cried. Then went home and went to sleep.
I don't want to be morbid here. Just want to see what I can do to be safer, and to share answers with others.

Thank all of you. The human family can be so wonderful. Sorry, we have to experience these horrible things. We can, 'Entertain angels unaware." I have hope, if climate changes don't dimish the earth, that goodness will win. It really already does, because with so many people and so many things that kill and maim, things work.

Answer 1

Not the worst, but it is the saddest.
I was driving down a 2 lane highway near Pt. Pleasant, W. Va. To the right was a steep hillside that ended beside a freshly plowed farm field. About 100 yds away in the plowed earth was a man standing beside his car parked in the plowed field. He was talking to his father, A child's tricycle was setting behind the car. The next thing that happened kicked in my intuition or premonition about danger. A little girl went behind the car and got on the tricycle to ride it out of the field. She couldn't get it to move in the rutted dirt. I knew something bad was going to happen. I don't know how I knew, I just did. I started honking the horn and shouting at the men but they couldn't hear me, I guess. (I can shout very LOUD) The guy got in his car, started it up, and despite my efforts to get their attention, the guy backed over the girl and her tricycle killing her instantly. I must have gone into shock. By the time I got to work, I could not stop crying and couldn't stand up. I could barely see to drive. When I got back to my gf.s house just around the curve from the farm, she asked "Did you hear..". I stopped her and told her what I saw. We later heard that the guy lost his mind about over the ghastly accident. I wasn't the same for quite a while, either.
In my lifetime, I have save almost a dozen people from sure death with my own bare hands and with the help of the hand of God. That's the only conclusion I can come to because most of those saving attempts were above and beyond normal physical abilities of speed and good judgement. I don't know if my premonitions are a gift or a curse. But it was a curse that day. I wasn't close enough to save her life. It still brings tears to my eyes now just remembering it.
No matter what happens, you can never be too careful. The best you can hope for is to be careful and aware of dangerous situations. If rolling the van over the hillside could have stopped it, I would have done it. But it happened too fast. That was the saddest and most tragic thing I ever witnessed, and I've seen a lot in my time.

Answer 2

Memorial day weekend 2006. I was moving from NC to NJ. Riding through DC and there was a bad accident. There were at least 6 dead. One car had flipped over (top down) Driver died you could see his body hanging from the seat. A SUV with a family in it. Driver died (the side of the car had been taken off in the crash. I realized that you never know when the end is coming. The driver looked like a business man Trying to spend the weekend with his family. He had on nicely pressed Khakis with his button down shirt). Body just slumped over the steering wheel. Child's body on the ground. They were thrown from a car. And another car into the guard rail with blankets over there whole car. Everyone in that car was dead. That scared me to pieces. Traffic was backed up for miles. There was a lady whose car was the first one behind the accident. She was crying and running to the cars to see if she could help anyone. When she realized the deaths she just stood there and cried. Since that day I have not gotten into my car without a seat belt and a prayer. I try not to speed too.

Answer 3

I've done journeyman search and rescue for many years. Well, technically, I've done searches. In over a dozen forays, I have yet to be on a team that has found a lost party alive. Glacier Bay and Denali are pretty, but can turn on you in an instant. I'm not squeamish about most physical trauma, but frozen and/or partially eaten corpses can rattle just about anyone.

Stuff like that is a powerful motivator to not take safety and survival for granted.

Answer 4

accident do happen
always wear protection equipments to have a good fun and then go home including adults