Car Crash @ MindSay

Ok kiddies, today's lesson is:  don't steal.

Six Texas teenagers were driving around in a stolen car when the driver crashed into a train.  Four of the kids died, and the other two were airlifted to the hospital.

Crime don't pay.

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was drunk and talking on his cell phone at the time of his fatal accident, and marijuana was found in the sport utility vehicle he was driving.

Medical examiner Michael Graham said at a news conference Friday that the 29-year-old reliever was dead "within seconds" from head injuries in the crash early Sunday on Interstate 64 in St. Louis. His vehicle hit the back of a tow truck parked on the highway to assist a driver from a previous accident.

"There is nothing at all that could have been done for him," Graham said.

Hancock's blood-alcohol level was 0.157, nearly twice Missouri's legal limit of 0.08, Graham said.

Police chief Joe Mokwa said 8.55 grams of marijuana and a glass pipe used to smoke marijuana were found in the rented Ford Explorer. Toxicology tests to determine if drugs were in his system had not been completed.

"I think there was an expectation that alcohol was involved, so I'm not sure what was said today is going to make [Hancock's family] feel worse or suffer more or feel differently about Josh," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said at a news conference at Busch Stadium. "The marijuana part, I don't know how to answer that part."

An accident reconstruction team determined Hancock was traveling 68 mph in a 55 mph zone when his SUV struck the back of a flatbed tow truck stopped in a driving lane. Mokwa said there was no evidence Hancock tried to stop. He did swerve, but too late to avoid the collision.

Hancock was not wearing a seat belt, but Graham said the belt would not have prevented his death.

Mokwa said Hancock was speaking with a female acquaintance about baseball and baseball tickets and that the conversation ended abruptly, apparently when the accident occurred. A police report said Hancock told the female acquaintance he was on his way to another bar and that he planned to meet her there.

Hancock, a key bullpen member on the World Series championship team last season, was driving alone.

The St. Louis Cardinals and Major League Baseball lost one of their own this morning, relief pitcher Josh Hancock, who was killed in an automobile accident.  He was 29, and won the World Series with the Cardinals last year.

No other details have been released yet, but it's a very sad situation indeed.

Somehow I awoke with a headache today...that's never a good thing....

 

I seriously couldn't concentrate in my early classes...I vowed to take a short nape afterwards until my 2oclock class, but when the time came around I was already passed out and missed the class by 3 hours when I awoke again...yes I woke up at 5oclock....ugh.

 

Oh you wanna know something really weird? A few days back when the weather was really bad, some girl from our campus was killed because her car spun out of control on the highway and flipped over the rail....well that same girl sat next to me in my Geography class...I even sold her a candy bar one day...It's really weird how mortality is near to us even when we don't expect it....Our professor explained what happend and when he said where she sat he goes "Well she sat rigt between Jen and Kev there *points*" yeah that wasn't the least bit creepy...

 

So that was mah day....hopefully it get's better...

 

 

tschuess!

Authorities on Tuesday were investigating the accident that injured two Illinois basketball players -- one seriously -- when their car went off the road and slammed into a tree.

Brian Carlwell, 19, was at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana Tuesday in serious condition with a severe concussion, Illinois sports information director Kent Brown said. Carlwell previously was listed in critical condition.

His teammate, Jamar Smith, was treated at the hospital for a concussion and released after the accident, Brown said.

Police cited Smith, a 19-year-old from Peoria, for improper lane usage, Brown said, and campus police say further action is possible pending the outcome of the investigation.

Smith, a 6-foot-3 sophomore guard, was driving the car sometime between 11:30 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. Monday on the fringe of the campus when it crossed the center line and struck a tree, according to Brown and University of Illinois police Sgt. Vanessa Horsman.

"We're trying to determine why he crossed the street and struck a tree," Horsman told The (Champaign) News Gazette.

According to the National Weather Service, it was snowing heavily in the Champaign area Monday night, but it wasn't known what, if any, role weather played in the accident.