High-speed chase through our parade this morning
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High-speed chase through our parade this morning
The first weekend in August, is always Brat Days. It's a 4-day festival with bands, a flea market, stuff for kids and of course, bratwurst in abundance. It's a fund-raiser for the Kiwanis Club (I think). We hardly ever go buy the over-priced brats, but we always go to the parade.
Today, however, we only got a partial parade and thankfully, only a few people got hurt. As we are sitting there, a car FLIES by, at a freeway speed, or faster, through the residential neighborhood, where the parade was happening. Fortunately, when he went past us, it's a divided road and the parade participants were on the other side. At the bottom of the hill, though, he hit a median and did hit some people. Apparently, injuries were non-life-threatening, as far as I know. It could have been FAR worse.
Eventually, this idiot was followed by quite a few cop cars and sheriff's vehicles. I heard from another by-stander that the high speed chase started in Kohler, about 3 miles west of us and continued into the middle of Sheboygan, where families lined the streets for the Brat parade.
My hubby, who works as a news photographer, started taking pictures and eventually walked down to the intersection where it ended. He's now at work processing pictures for the newspaper and the website.
I came downstairs to his work cellphone beeping and it was the managing editor's voicemail about the incident, but he's out of town and doesn't know that Gary's all on top of it already.
Oh yeah, needless to say, the rest of the parade was cancelled.  At least we got to see the Budweiser Clydesdales, and the dalmatian, though! They were about ready to make the turn, to the road that goes to Kiwanis Park, when the yokel FLEW past us. I'm glad they were high enough up, on their wagon, to see it coming, and kept the horses in place, on the road, so the horses didn't get hurt.
What I want to know, is how the idiot got through the barricades that were up, to block the road, for the parade. I really have no clue. Someone must have moved them, because they knew it was coming.
I felt bad for the little kids across the street, who had bags for the candy that is always thrown. They had to go home, empty-handed. I felt bad for me, because I had to carry Gary's heavy chair home.
For more info later:
The Sheboygan Press
oh wow! How scary that had to have been. I'm glad none of your family got hurt. I too am interested in knowing how he got though the baracades. Were they just cones and the folding type triangle things or where they the heavy duty cement baracades? If someone did in fact move them I hope they are found and held responsible.
They were the wooden barricades. We are guessing now, that he just blew right through them. We did see some wooden fragments on the median, where those barricades were, later on. His car also had some front corner damage, where the head light was, plus a piece must have bounced up and hit the passenger side of the windshield, since that was broken, too.
He wrecked the right front wheel/tire, when he crashed into a cement median, but we think that is why people only had minor injuries, because that median thing, took the brunt of the impact. He quite damaged the wheel/tire assembly and broke a chunk of concrete off.
It was triangle-shaped piece of concrete that divided the main part of the road, from a place where you could turn right, onto the east-west road.
After the intial shock of a vehicle traveling MUCH too fast for a residential neighborhood, it's just been the entertaining of different scenarios, and how it could have been so much worse, if this, that, or the other thing had happened. He could have taken out a HUGE group of people, if other circumstances had happened. That's what's been torturing me, all day.
Or how horrible it would have been for those horses, if they'd been across the intersection, when the car blew through. The Budweiser Clydesdales had just gone past us, but I think there was a cop on the corner, who knew what was possibly coming our way, and either he, or the wagon driver could see what was coming, but they were in a safe place, so they didn't get hurt.
There were two young girls in front of the Clydesdale and a cop got them out of the way JUST in time. Phew.
It was on our local news in Ohio last night! Dh was amazed that I already knew about it. LOL
That is scary! Luckily he didn't crash into the crowd. What an idiot!
Dawn, I just read the article. I like the part "the car slowed-down to 60 mph"!
Exactly! It sure seemed like he was going faster than 60mph, when he flew past us. It's hard to guage how fast, though, since you usually aren't standing still, on a freeway.
Oh how terrible. What an idiot... he is so lucky he didn't kill anyone. Things like this make it so a person doesn't want to leave the house, you really never know what might happen.
Gary, once again, got some great shots. Just sad it had to be for this reason.
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