I just saw the most horrific thing ever in my entire life last night on my way home from work. Someone got struck by 3 cars and I saw it all but the first time she got hit. I was coming home from work at about 10:30pm on August 27, 2008 down the north bound lane on Wyoming Ave. as I was approaching the intersection of Pringle St. I had seen a silver car in the South bound lane about 2 blocks up from where I was, jump in the air and come down like they had hit something or blew a tire and lost control. As I was coming closer I slowed down to see what it was because back where I was at first it looked like a Sheet in the road. When I got close enough to see, I saw it was a person. White, Female in her early 30's she was on her back and I wasn't sure if she was breathing. I stopped right there, I didn't care that there were cars behind me. They went around me. I put the car in park and searched for my cell phone to call 911 because I didn't know if anyone else had at this point.
I was in the passing lane going north bound when I had stopped. She was laying in the middle of the passing lane going south bound. The space between her and my car where I had stopped was the turning lane that turns down to go to Pierce St. There was approximately 10ft or less between her and my self. When I was on the phone with 911 I was explaining to the dispatch that there was a person who was just hit right near the corner of Wyoming Ave. and Pierce St. in Kingston. She then asked if I was able to see if she was breathing, I looked over to see if her stomach was moving as if she were and just as I was telling the dispatch person that I didn't see any movement that I think she was not, she got hit again by a Silver SUV in the south bound passing lane which I thought to be a Mitsubishi but I wasn't 100% sure. At this point I saw everything, she got severed in half from the impact of the SUV which had to have been going about 40mph. I started to freak out and started crying screaming that she was just hit again and she was in pieces. The 911 Dispatcher told me that ambulances and the police were on there way and that to stay where I was. Just as she let me go everyone showed up. All of the Kingston police, ambulances and fire trucks were there.
Everything happened so fast. I couldn't believe what I had just seen right before my eye's. I couldn't stop crying, I was shaking vigorously. This poor woman could have had a fighting chance if she didn't get hit for a 3rd time. By 3rd time I mean the first person to have hit her took off. When I had seen the 2nd car hit her I knew it wasn't there fault because if they had stuck her I would have been able to see a body go air born, but I didn't, they ran over her. There was a girl on the sidewalk over near the south bound lanes that had said when she got hit by the SUV that it was the 3rd time she was hit, she was also on the phone with 911 when I was. The person in the SUV who was driving took off also. The only one who had stopped was the 2nd car which I found out was an older lady about in her 50's or 60's. She wasn't doing good. She was crying I felt so sorry for her. When I heard her telling the Police everything she knew she said she didn't realize it was a person that she hit, she said she thought it was just a sheet in the middle of the road. As I was sitting in my car a police officer came over to ask if I was okay and to ask what I had seen. I told him everything I saw from the point when I was all the way back up by Pringle St. when the 2nd car hit her. Then that I was right next to her when she got hit the 3rd time. He told me to stay where I was to not go anywhere. Like I really could if I wanted to, I was still crying and shaking at this point I wasn't in any condition to drive. I had try to call DBF to let him know what I had just seen and he wasn't answering his phone, so I called my best friend. I was bawling my eyes out to her. As I was explaining to her everything I had seen, DBF beeped in, I told him everything and he asked if I was okay, I told him no and that I can't leave. Just as I let him go to finish talking to my friend a detective came over to ask me what I had seen. I told her I had to go because he wanted to talk to me. I got out of the car and he asked if I was okay I told him I would be fine and then he told me to tell him everything that I could. I told him everything I saw from the point back when I was up near Pringle St. He told me to sit tight that they were going to need me to make a statement of everything I saw in detail and that to leave my car right where it was. I got back in my car to wait for someone to come get me so I could write my statement.
At this point I had called my work to let them know what had happened and that I probably was not going to be in work the next day because I just knew I wasn't going to get any sleep that night. She asked if I was okay and kept saying that she was so sorry that I had to see that and she understood that I wouldn't be in the best shape to work. She then told me that her brother had seen when the SUV hit her and said he was really shooken up by it. She said she couldn't have imagined seeing what I saw being right next to her when it happened. She kept telling me she was sorry and that I had to see that happen. I just couldn't believe it.
Shortly after that one of the Detectives came over and asked for me to come down to the station which was about a block away from the accident scene to write my statement. As I was sitting there waiting they had 3 guys sitting there waiting to be questioned. Apparently they where one of the cars behind the SUV when it hit her and swerved out of the way to avoid hitting anyone them selves. One of the police officers that was in the station came over to me and had me go back to an office so I could write everything down. They took my information to keep it on file since I was a witness. I wrote everything down that I could remember at that point since I was still shooken up. After I was done telling them the one Detective that brought me over told me that the state police are looking into the investigation and that I will most likely be called back by them for an interview. After that he told the one officer on duty that had my write my statement to take me back to the scene and wait since I couldn't take my car yet. I sat there and was watching as they were investigating the area and trying to clean up. There were 3 people that one of the Detectives were talking to that knew who the person was that was hit. They said she was on her way home from work and had lived in the one building that was for people with mentally handicap and substance abuse issues. They were workers of this building. At least they were able to identify the body so that way they could let her family members know what had happened if she has any.
As I'm sitting there watching them still clean up the mess and to mark on the road where her things were I saw them checking out my car to make sure it wasn't involved. Just after that a police officer came over to get me and told me that I could leave. He took me over to my car where a member of the DA questioned me what I had seen. I told him everything I had seen and someone said my story matched up with a few others who had seen everything. They were asking me some questions of things I wouldn't have known off the top of my head, like when the 3rd person hit did I hear any tire squeal like they were going to stop when they saw her. I said I didn't hear any till after they hit her. They wanted to know because from what I could see there were no skid marks on the road anywhere near where the body was. When he was asking me what I told the 911 dispatcher, I told him she asked me if she was breathing when I said I didn't think so, he asked if I had gotten out of the car to check her pulse. I explained to no I was still in my car and I just looked over to see if I could see her stomach moving as if she was and that was when she got hit the 3rd time I said if I did I would have been hit to. He said I was lucky and that he was glad that I didn't get out. I finished answering everything they asked me and then they told me I could finally leave.
I didn't get much sleep at all last night. I can't stop thinking about everything, it keeps playing over and over in my head like a video on loop. This is something that is going to be with me for the rest of my life...even though I wish I had never seen it, Everything happens for a reason and maybe it was something I was meant to have experienced no matter how Traumatic it is. It was hard for me when they let me leave, as soon as I started driving home any bump or pothole I hit the sound just brought me back to the impact of that 3rd vehicle running over her. I don't think I will ever get that sound out of my head.
They are still looking for the two drivers that hit her and fled the scene. I hope they catch them because it inhumane for what they did to that poor girl.
Here is a video from our local news station of the information that was released to them to make a story of what had happened and to make note that they are still looking for the 2 drivers that took off and if anyone knew anything to call the local police.
That is my car that is right in the middle of the investigation.
These are the stories on the accident from our local news papers.
10:39 AM
Kingston police investigate fatal hit and run
Edward Lewis elewis@timesleader.com
KINGSTON - A woman in her 30s was killed when struck by three vehicles as she crossed Wyoming Avenue, near Pierce Street, late Wednesday night, Police Chief Keith Keiper said.
Police are searching for the driver's of two vehicles which sped away after the woman, whose name wasn't released, was struck.
Keiper said the woman was crossing Wyoming Avenue when she was struck in the northbound lane at about 10:36 p.m. The impact caused a vehicle driving south to hit the woman, who was also struck by another southbound vehicle, Keiper said.
Keiper said the driver of the second vehicle that struck the woman stopped.
The driver of the first vehicle that struck the woman, and the driver of the third vehicle fled the scene.
The first vehicle is described as a silver, gray or black colored sport utility type vehicle, driven by a white male, between 30 to 35 years old, wearing a baseball type hat with short hair. The third vehicle is a silver Mazda or Mitsubishi, Keiper said.
An autopsy is scheduled for later today.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Kingston Police at 287-6911.
Breaking News: Woman killed in hit and run accident 10:23 a.m.
Published: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:24 AM EDT
Heidi Ruckno
Staff Writer
An unidentified female pedestrian was struck and killed on Wyoming Avenue late Wednesday night, near Pierce Street, Kingston police said.
The incident occurred just before 11 p.m., and Luzerne County Chief Deputy Coroner William Lisman pronounced the woman dead shortly after midnight. She was struck by three separate vehicles, according to witnesses. Two of the cars fled, they said.
Kingston Police and State Police at Wyoming were still on the scene early Thursday morning. Police were interviewing witnesses at Kingston Police Headquarters, bystanders said.
As of 1 a.m., Wyoming Avenue remained closed between Butler and Pringle Streets, and Pierce Street was closed between Wyoming Avenue and Rutter Avenue.
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I'm truly sorry that you had to see that, PiXeY. That's just horrible that people would just hit her without really looking.
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