Deadly accident in Hastings

This had me calling all my kids last night ad doing “Roll Call.” How sad…

Woman killed in Hastings bridge crash

Story posted 2009.01.16 at 08:27 AM CST

The icy roads are to blame for a deadly accident near Hastings.

According to police, the incident happened around 9:30 p.m. Thursday along Highway 61, just north of the Hastings Mississippi High Bridge.

The Minnesota State Patrol said a truck lost control on the slick roads, slamming into another truck heading in the opposite direction.

The passenger of that vehicle was killed. The driver, 38-year-old Allen Burr escaped with only minor injuries.

The driver of the truck that lost control, 45-year-old Timothy Sherry of Hastings, wasn’t seriously injured either.

The name of the victim has not been released.

Any word on who it is yet?

No word yet, I just herd about it on the news

It’s scary how slick the roads have been during this cold spell. The wife saw 4 wrecks from Maple Grove to Rogers last night. That black ice is treacherous!!

Dang Tuck, this is the very first I’ve heard this.
Is this the same Burr from the Welch area?

Don’t know…I just printed it off 5onthego.com…
Chappy seams to think it was a guy that was killed. I don’t know which is right. All I know is that it had me scrambling to account for my kids last night.

Public information on the MSP site. I think it is good for everyone to read and see what happens in crashes. And to see how many bad crashes there are. These are only the ones that the state patrol investigates and doesn’t include all the crashes that other deputies and local cops report on.

https://www.dps.state.mn.us/patrol/media/DisplayAllIncidents.asp

No info released on the DOA victim from Hastings as of today yet. Although I do not know them, I send my condolences to the family of the victim invoved in this tragic crash.

Not to get on a soap box (but I am), but it is sad that 500 people in MN die every year in car crashes (crashes are not “accidents” they are preventable). To most, those 500 some are just a stastical number – almost an accepted part of motor vehicle travel.

But, if we put that number into perspective…would we continue airline travel if 2 A320 jets crashed in MN every year? Heck no, they would shut down the airport. Or howabout if 500 kids died every year from a disease at school, would we send them back to school? No way. Then what is it that has to be done to get people to understand that driving is not secondary when you are behind the wheel.

It is serious business…as serious as – ok, does this analogy work: the metro dome at a Vikings game, er ok how about a bigger crowd, OK, 1991 Twins and the stands are filled…with everyone having a 1911 .45 handgun in their hand cocked but not locked. Would people understand the mentality that “holy crap, I gotta be careful with this thing cause I could kill someone…might even be someone I know or like and it might even be ME!”

“A beer? Heck no, not while I got this thing in my hand…the last thing I need is alcohol with this thing. And I hope to god everyone else is thinkin the same way…I don’t want someone else to shoot me OR my kid with me.”

I am not crazy guys…just tired of the wasted lives that are needlessly taken from all of us day after day and that it is not a higher social priority issue.

I am stepping down off my soapbox now and it is pretty tall…I hope I haven’t slipped and fallen on my [censored]…

Stay warm…

Rick

Thumbs up to you Klotz, I could not have written it better. Multiple thousand pound deadly weapons, talking and texting on the cells, reading, what have you. I used to teach defensive driving, amazing what people do. We taught ‘stay away’ and ‘horizon eyes’, my kids won’t get behind the wheel without being more educated than a 2 dollar driver’s ed class, and if that fails they will deal with me for reasons that are evident from the news.