Yesterday at about 5 p.m. on the highway I use to commute from Mancos to Durango, a horrific wreck killed three people and sent two others by helicopter to hospitals. One vehicle apparently crossed the center line and slammed head-on into a vehicle carrying a mom and dad and two children. Killed were the driver of the one vehicle, and the dad and one of the children in the other vehicle. Both vehicles caught fire. That anyone survived must be a miracle.
I work in a newsroom. I can’t imagine being a first-responder, law-enforcement, emergency medical personnel … Listening to details emerge through the static of the scanner was horrifying. (Thank God for those people who give of themselves to respond to tragedies such as these.)
The survivors – the mom and one of the boys – were originally flown to hospitals in Durango and in Farmington. Now they’ve apparently been sent to Albuquerque and to Salt Lake City. Only in the last few hours were they identified. The single driver apparently has not yet been identified.
http://durangoherald.com/article/20110323/NEWS01/703229912/Hwy–160-crash-kills-3
A tragedy that hits close to home … Please offer your prayers for these families. I’ve been thinking about this all day, and I finally decided to share some of the grief I feel about this wreck and these people I don’t even know. Sometimes, no matter how careful you are, terrible things happen. Please be careful on all your journeys.
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