This team is about 30 minutes down the road from me, some of the kids on the team are from the city i live in now, its just an awful story.
My thoughts and prayers go out to them, they could probably use as many prayers from the rest of here as they can get.
As of the last thing i read, the driver and his wife both passed on, as well as 4 of the players. One of the players is still in critical condition, and besides that, everyone looks like they are steady.
I dont know how to feel about he driver passing, on one hand, i feel like he should be alive to answer the questions of the parents and other family members, because the fault lies on him. On the other hand, the guilt that man would have felt would have been such a torture that death is almost a blessing for him.
–JB
Yea man, it’s horrible. I think I actually cried when I saw that on the news this morning. Imagine looking forward to playing in sunny weather and then 4 of your teammates die.
What’s even freakier is that I also read that they were going to be playing at the same fields that my team is playing at next week. It’s going to be a shitty bus ride down there. God bless them.
How do you mistake an exit lane for an extra driving lane unless you just aren’t paying attention? Driving a vehicle that big would be enough to make people more focused. I’m sorry to hear about this
[quote]Professor X wrote:
How do you mistake an exit lane for an extra driving lane unless you just aren’t paying attention? Driving a vehicle that big would be enough to make people more focused. I’m sorry to hear about this[/quote]
Exactly, ive driven through Atlanta 5 or 6 times now, during both horrible rush traffic, and at 4 in the morning in the rain, and i have no idea how you could make such a huge mistake.
The local news woman who gave the report this morning did a horrible job with the story. She kept saying how the bus hit the rail, then hung for a moment, just long enough for the young men to wake up and realize what was happening. I just felt like she was working for her local emmy. After a while i just had to change the channel,.
And then i see that 8 students in Alabama died when a tornado hit their school. We have more then enough young men dying while serving for our country, dying for “something” at least, dying for a cause, it just sucks the hope out of me to see young men dying for absolutely no reason, this is something that should have been easily avoidable.
–JB