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Just wanted to share a sad story.
We stopped in the Black hills/mount Rushmore area for a few days on the way home from Yellowstone.
After a day of sight seeing at the badlands in South Dakota I decided to use the back roads to get back to camp to avoid some of the motorcycle traffic. Just before reaching the main road we encountered this accident: http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2007/08/06/news/local/doc46b69df8ac9a6733358506.txt
We were the first on the scene. I almost drove past, thinking it was just an abandoned vehicle, but I looked back and saw an arm. We tried calling 911 with our cell phones but kept losing the call. Then we remembered that the vehicle we were driving had On-Star. We used that and it worked just like it does on the commercials and emergency crews were sent.
Due to the remote location it took quite a while for emergency to arrive. The man was alert and talking, but due to the way the vehicle was sitting there was no way I was going to try to get him out. I was pretty sure the woman was dead, but he hadn't realized it yet. Having to sit there, comforting him and assuring him that help was on the way, knowing that the woman with him was likely dead was probably one of the toughest things I've ever had to deal with.
We stopped in the Black hills/mount Rushmore area for a few days on the way home from Yellowstone.
After a day of sight seeing at the badlands in South Dakota I decided to use the back roads to get back to camp to avoid some of the motorcycle traffic. Just before reaching the main road we encountered this accident: http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2007/08/06/news/local/doc46b69df8ac9a6733358506.txt
We were the first on the scene. I almost drove past, thinking it was just an abandoned vehicle, but I looked back and saw an arm. We tried calling 911 with our cell phones but kept losing the call. Then we remembered that the vehicle we were driving had On-Star. We used that and it worked just like it does on the commercials and emergency crews were sent.
Due to the remote location it took quite a while for emergency to arrive. The man was alert and talking, but due to the way the vehicle was sitting there was no way I was going to try to get him out. I was pretty sure the woman was dead, but he hadn't realized it yet. Having to sit there, comforting him and assuring him that help was on the way, knowing that the woman with him was likely dead was probably one of the toughest things I've ever had to deal with.