Thursday, October 11, 2007

Road kill with clothes on

A headline caught my eye. "I-880 in Hayward jammed after fatality." Since we lived at that location years ago I looked at the news report.

The actual line from the news report is as follows: Motorists initially reported shortly before 6 a.m. that an animal had been hit numerous times by cars on the freeway north of Winton Road. But other witnesses called in a half-hour later, saying there was clothing in the road about 100 yards down, and officers confirmed that someone had been hit, CHP officials said.

I know that the lifestyle there is very fast paced, but come on. The road kill here turned out to be a 50 year old man. Are you serious? For a half an hour people ran over a person thinking it was an animal? Hopefully they didn't spill their coffee from the impact.

1 comment:

Christa said...

Oh. My. God.

What a terrible thing to have so many people so distracted that they can't tell an animal...from a person.