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Woman dies in MH accident at Flying J

moisheh
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Davenport Flying J accident

There must be more to this story. Did the MH driver pass out or was he just a bad driver? Maybe too old to be driving? How fast was he going to do that much damage?
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Dtank
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mpierce wrote:
Probably the "thought I was braking, but really floored the gas pedal" problem.

The picture of this, and other, stick built MH's make me more convinced than ever, that buying an older Bluebird Wanderlodge was the correct decision. Built on a crash certified, all steel body and frame. Bluebirds have rolled onto their side, been pulled back upright, and driven off.

The extent to which regular RV's literally self destruct in relatively minor accidents, is appalling.


Salesman:
"Good morning/evening Mr. Pierce.
This RV, should you purchase it, may self destruct at any time.
As always, if any of your friends or relatives are injured or killed, my secretary will disavow any knowledge of this transaction."

Wow! Great plot for a TV show!
The rollover recovery would fit right in with "Flippin' RVs" on cable.

But seriously, obviously - *everyone* should have a Bluebird!

Insurance Companies will go broke in no time..:C
Or at at least, premiums will hit rock-bottom prices!

Of course, *if* you find a nice used Bluebird....check for hidden rollover damage..:S

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Bird_Freak
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GMandJM wrote:
A woman lost her life and the reporter described the incident as "nearly" a tragedy. He is not a good writer.
I noticed that also. How many dead people does it take to be a tragedy?
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2gypsies1
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There are at least three different links in the post. I don't think anything was changed to the original one - just later added information as it was found out. They're from different sources: Quad-City Times, TV6; TV8.

I don't think any of the posters here would do any better with reporting after reading these speculated comments:

"driver passed out, too old, too young, passed out, too fast (yeh, at the pump?), heart attack, stroke"

"reporter fresh out of college English major, no mention of the RV driver (it did say he was taken to the hospital, human interest story (the 1st article accurately gave every single detail before later information could be had), minimum wage feeder to the big leagues, needs to return to school, I haven't yet seen any pedestrians that weren't in a RV (Really? At a service station?)"

What good does all this speculation really do? You're just writing your own stories.
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rgatijnet1
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Partial update with identities: RV accident

Executive45
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tbred wrote:
Anyone else notice the story has been edited?


Yes, and it reads better by this writer than it did by the original. Those that read the original felt the same way, those that read the edited one are correct. The main alteration was the first two paragraphs which focus on the tragedy of the woman killed. The original article called it a "near tragedy" and focused on the children not the RVrs wife....still sad...Dennis
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tbred
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Anyone else notice the story has been edited?

Bucky1320
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Man! Some of you sure can get your shorts in a wad over the writing of a story where very limited information was available at the time of the writing. I guess rv'ers must be some of the best writers out there, and ought to be writing for the QC Times!
As someone who has owned a newspaper, I can tell you that there is very little money in news anymore, and in the world of IMMEDIATE reporting that lives forever, some will second guess your work all of the time. How can anyone be surprised that the very best journalists aren't writing today?
What I think some are excited about is that they suspect this is going to be another story that eventually looks bad on groups that they belong to. Maybe periodic driving tests should be required to drive an RV or anything for that matter.
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Naio
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OMG, that poor guy.

Imagine how he must feel. And now, for the rest of his life, every time someone asks him what happened to his wife...
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Very sad. Hate to see a thing like this happen.
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Found this on WQAD website -

UPDATE as of Sunday, July 5th, 2015 at 7:09pm: The pedestrian in the accident has been identified.

Police say the woman is Mary LeMay, age 74 of Centerville, Tennessee. According to an emailed update from the Davenport Police Department, “she was standing outside of the RV guiding the driver (her husband) into a parking space at the time of the accident.”

There are no charges pending at this time.
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Skid_Row_Joe
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Any more updates on the events leading up to the death?

Skid_Row_Joe
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It said the woman killed was walking by the RV when it was moving. Said nothing about directing anything. Very careless people involved to have such a tragic event occur. 😞

FIRE_UP
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Well,
Since NONE of us were there, none of us were IN THE MOTOR HOME, and there is no DIRECT WORD from the coach driver, we can only try and ASSUME what happened. And we ALL KNOW WHAT ASSUME means. Until the FACTS are out, until he recovers from whatever damage was done to him and is ACCURATELY reported, we simply guess at the cause.

Who knows, like what has been stated, a heart attack, a stroke, a blackout of some sort, what? And, at this point in time, we're being lead to possibly believe that, the woman that was killed, COULD have been with the RV driver and, COULD have been directing him to enter the fueling station. Obviously we'll not know anything from her.

If, IF, she was with him, and she was DIRECTING the RV to the fuel pump, that would have meant that, that RV had to have STOPPED COMPLETELY at one point TO LET HER OUT. IF, that was the case, where did she get out in relation to what kind of speed was gained/attained to do that much damage?

Most of us know that there's not much strength built into the body framing of these rolling Kleenex boxes. So, when force is applied to that part of the structure, it collapse very easily. But still, that's a fair amount of damage if, he had just let her out (again IF, SHE WAS WITH THE RV DRIVER IN THE FIRST PLACE, IT'S NOT PROVEN YET) and that would/should mean that, they were at least, in the parking lot of the fuel station, if not close to the pumps.

But, again, we're all trying to surmise what happened. Who gives a rats a$$ about the reporting? The report MIGHT not be to everyone's liking but, the basics are there:

1. Accident with an RV at a fuel station
2. Woman killed
3. People injured/children involved
4. Driver not killed and transported to hospital.
5. Some witness's
6. Cause of accident: Unknown, still investigating

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GMandJM
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A woman lost her life and the reporter described the incident as "nearly" a tragedy. He is not a good writer.
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