Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)

Subject: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: Scoville
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 07:44 AM

Hit by a drunk driver after his car blew a tire outside of Dallas.

News article here.

Website here.

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 08:33 AM

What a tragedy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: Wesley S
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:14 AM

Yep - It's too damn risky to be walking on a freeway at night with all of the drunk drivers around. It seems like we hear this type of story every few weeks around here{North Texas}. I think if I ever get a flat at night I've just going to drive on the rim until I get the hell off the freeway. I'd rather have a ruined rim than be dead. It's a real shame.

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:17 PM

Wesley is correct--there are a lot of drunk driver caused fatalities here in North Texas. The drunks are rarely the ones killed.

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: kendall
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 06:36 PM

I see people walking with the traffic all the time and I have to wonder if they realize how dangerous that is.

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: GUEST,Scoville
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 09:00 PM

In Houston they try to run across the freeways. I don't know why since it's not like there aren't underpasses at regular intervals, but it seems that every few weeks somebody gets hit by a car trying to dash across I-45. I've seen the aftermath of that and it's not pretty.

I have to admit that one of my worst nightmares would be to be stranded with a broken-down car on a remote stretch of road. No cell phone signal (I don't know if that's a problem in the UK but there are a lot of places here that are too far from towns of any size to get signals), not safe to stay with the car since I'm told that creepy people look for stranded young women, and a long walk to get help. No, thanks. I travel anyway, but it's not a good thought.

Still, 33 years old. That sucks.

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 07:57 AM

Scoville - there are lots of places here in the UK where you can't get a signal, so it is a worry.

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 10:52 AM

A traffic accident in Florida today apparently had a truck running off of the road and hitting several people next to a broken down car. Hit three children, killed two outright, one is hospitalized.

The worst place in the world is to stand near a broken down car on a highway. I stopped to aid a couple of women who collided on the morning rush and the cars weren't drivable. I made both of them get out (they were uninjured) and climb over the guard rail and stand back until the fire trucks and tow trucks got there. My pickup, stopped in front (not behind) them was to the side, blinkers going, but was still a target for an inattentive driver. Lucky no one was hurt and no more property damaged. Those women were going to sit in their cars in the lane and wait for help. Bad idea.

A teenager was hit trying to run across the freeway in west Fort Worth last week. In an area where there was a nearby overpass. The driver fled, so the death is listed as a homicide. The driver wouldn't have been charged if he/she had stopped, because pedestrians have no business on the freeway. I used this story (I thought of it as my 15-year-old and I drove past the spot) to illustrate to my son why he should never attempt such a crossing, and why you have to stop to render aid if you have an accident. It went from being an accident to being a crime because the driver didn't stop. I had his attention, and I hope it sunk in.

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 05:20 PM

The idea that the motive for stopping to help someone you've hit should be to stop it being classed as a crime rather than in order to help a fellow human being casts a very strange light on a society.

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 06:12 PM

If you kill or hurt someone and don't stop to render aid, it is a criminal offense. If you are tempted to run instead of stop, you need to consider that it is a criminal offense and will catch up with you.

There was a nurses aid who hit a man on the highway in Fort Worth, Texas, a few years ago. He was literally impaled by her windshield. She drove home and parked in her garage with this man half in, half out of her car. He died in her garage because she didn't call anyone, and later a friend helped her dump the body in a city park. She was later bragging about it at a party and a woman overheard and called the police, or the death would never have been explained. I'm sure Wesley will remember that one. She was a disturbed, cruel individual to do that.

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Buck Jones (young TX country singer)
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 06:21 PM

SRS - I remember reading about that case; it was horrific.