I was in bed around 11:30 night before last, when I got a call from the parents of one of my best friends. It turns out that he was killed in a car accident about 2 hours before. They had just had the highway patrol come to their house to report that he had died.
He was 22. Driving back from his girlfriend's house in South Carolina. He was driving from Birmingham, AL, on the I-65 towards Huntsville. He and another car from michigan were right next to each other in the two northbound lanes. Suddenly someone from the soundbound lane swirved, drove through the median between the lanes (not a small median either) and crashed into both my friend's pickup and the SUV next to him. My friend was killed instantly, probably before he even knew what hit him. There were 2 people killed in the SUV, out of the 4. The other two were in critical last that I heard.
The driver who caused the crash was 17. He's alive and in critical condition as well.
It's been so hard to deal with this. This was the closest friend I had who still lived in town with me. I grew up with him. He had a good girlfriend, had just graduated and gotten his CS degree. He was going to marry that girl. He was my gaming buddy. Now I look at my computer games and I can't even touch them.
I spent all yesterday with his family. His older brother is another friend of mine, another gaming buddy, who drove down from Chatanooga after he heard what happened. I'm not even sure what to say now. I don't know how to console people when at times I still need help dealing with his death. It was such a shock. In some ways, I still think he's just on a trip and that he'll be back in a day or two again.
All the little things just haunt you. Seeing his name on my trillian list. His cell phone number programmed into mine.
It's not that I worry about him. I mean...I'm christian. I'm actively a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (as was my friend)...and faith makes it easier. But I still hurt for the empty part of my life that will be left now. This was the closest person to me I've ever had die.
I won't even be able to see him again. They made it sound like he got pretty torn up in the crash. It will be closed-casket. The coroner said there wasn't enough left of him to fix.
How many of you have ever lost someone like that?
He was 22. Driving back from his girlfriend's house in South Carolina. He was driving from Birmingham, AL, on the I-65 towards Huntsville. He and another car from michigan were right next to each other in the two northbound lanes. Suddenly someone from the soundbound lane swirved, drove through the median between the lanes (not a small median either) and crashed into both my friend's pickup and the SUV next to him. My friend was killed instantly, probably before he even knew what hit him. There were 2 people killed in the SUV, out of the 4. The other two were in critical last that I heard.
The driver who caused the crash was 17. He's alive and in critical condition as well.
It's been so hard to deal with this. This was the closest friend I had who still lived in town with me. I grew up with him. He had a good girlfriend, had just graduated and gotten his CS degree. He was going to marry that girl. He was my gaming buddy. Now I look at my computer games and I can't even touch them.
I spent all yesterday with his family. His older brother is another friend of mine, another gaming buddy, who drove down from Chatanooga after he heard what happened. I'm not even sure what to say now. I don't know how to console people when at times I still need help dealing with his death. It was such a shock. In some ways, I still think he's just on a trip and that he'll be back in a day or two again.
All the little things just haunt you. Seeing his name on my trillian list. His cell phone number programmed into mine.
It's not that I worry about him. I mean...I'm christian. I'm actively a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (as was my friend)...and faith makes it easier. But I still hurt for the empty part of my life that will be left now. This was the closest person to me I've ever had die.
I won't even be able to see him again. They made it sound like he got pretty torn up in the crash. It will be closed-casket. The coroner said there wasn't enough left of him to fix.
How many of you have ever lost someone like that?
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