Re: [humble][death to a M3 tonight]

["Zach Vrooman" <zach@discover-net.net>]

I think it might have been an M5. Good work, dude.

zach
86 8v

- ----------
> From: Shawn C Meze <skerocdriver@juno.com>
> To: scirocco-L@scirocco.org
> Subject: [humble][death to a M3 tonight]
> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 12:51 AM
> 
> I just walked in the door from a very odd experience. I was driving my
> Roc home from visiting my grandfather in the hospital tonight. I was east
> bound on I-8 just before the 805 freeway.
> 
> Im in the #2 lane doing about 70 creeping up on a truck in the #3 lane.
> All at once i get this terrific bright light in thru my passenger side
> window. First instinct was, my gawd, that's some bright ass lights.
> Second instinct was, that's really out of the ordinary. 
> 
> So I look out the window to see a set of headlights turning right and
> immediately rolling over and over. This car was on a freeway onramp that
> for me at least, is usually alot of fun because its twisty and if you use
> the right line, is a blast. Its the last onramp before the 805 freeway I
> think. 
> 
> So, now im moving to the fast lane (rather quickly I might add) and
> watching the car and it rolls over and over and in behind me where it
> backed into the center divide. It rolled at least 5 times that I counted.
> (I did too. Kind of odd after the fact but I was actually saying 1! 2! 3!
> 4! 5!) He was really flying before he spun!
> 
> I really thought this was going to be a bad accident so I stopped to help
> out as best I could. I ran up to the window of the driver and turned off
> the ignition he was simply beat to hell. Cuts all over, but he was
> breathing. His girlfriend was awake, alert and from what I saw, unharmed!
> I couldn't believe that she was OK. She starts to panic and freak out and
> I get to use my cop routine on her and tell her to calm down and then get
> into her helping him. Stuff like that. he had a huge gash on the right
> side of his head. Ive never seen the skull of a living person before.
> Odd. I ended up finding his jacket in the back seat (I wasn't gonna use
> my Scirocco shirt, it was too COLD out!) and wadded it up for her to use
> as a compress. (See, the army's first aid training paid off after all.
> And best of all, I wasn't using it on myself!)
> 
> She calmed down really well and began to talk to him. Im really proud of
> how she handled the situation. he finally did come around and like
> anybody with a head wound, began to fight. Unfortunately, ive seen this
> kind of behavior before with a head injury so I was kind of expecting it.
> he calmed down and regained consciousness. He wanted her to drive them
> out of there. I told him, your car is totalled you cant drive it
> anywhere. 
> 
> His car was a 4dr M3 (is that right, M3's are also 4 doors?) with a body
> kit, lowered with 18" Antera funky wheels. All the door windows were
> broken, oil pan busted, windshield cracked, drivers side roof line
> pancaked in, left front wheel smashed, passenger side wheels broken. He
> hit the center divide so hard that the contents of the trunk flew out and
> the mat that sits on top of the spare tire was draped over the center
> divide.
> I looked at he spedo and it had 23,000 miles on it. 
> 
> I got one thing to say about BMW's. They are damn safe cars. I knew that
> in an accident, the hazards come on automatically and the fuel pump is
> shut off. It worked flawlessly. I still cant get over how she was
> unharmed. That was the most violent rollover that I have ever seen.
> (Except for maybe <NASCAR> Rusty Wallaces rollover at Daytona the one
> year.) There was glass and mulched ice plant all across the freeway. Im
> still shocked I guess. 
> Anyways, I drove home about 60mph after that. I just finished washing the
> blood off of my arms and I just cant get the smell out of my nose. 
> 
> Anyways, that's what happened. Im sure he survived for those curious. It
> was just a really bad feeling about the whole thing.
> 
> The ironic thisg is, if I hadn't raced this truck to the 8 east onramp, I
> would of been right about where the BMW came across the freeway. man.
> 
> 
>               Shawn Meze
> 86' Jetta GLi           82' Scirocco GTi
> The Slowest, Humblest, Cleanest and
> best looking Scirocco in all of San Diego!
> http://www.Geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1308/index.htm
> 
> ___________________________________________________________________
> You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
> Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com
> or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
> --
> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to
scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
> with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.
- --
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.

------------------------------