Well, I have not been buying the paper this week and I sure miss it. There are numerous McDonalds here but none that I pass by on my way except for this one. It will be a while before I can get a newspaper there again. Last week someone ran a red light and a car and a semi carrying a huge load of bales of hay collided. The end result was that the semi of hay pushed a 3rd vehicle completely inside the McDonalds and the cab of the semi itself was buried inside, right where the counter use to be.
Thank goodness no one was killed. 7 people were hospitalized. Miraculous that no one was killed, considering a Ford Explorer was pushed inside the store, followed by a semi on it's side. It happened around 10 p.m. on a weeknight so it was not a busy time. Had it been in summer it would have been tragic.
I took this photo on my way home tonight, more than a week after the wreck. The door to enter the store was just to the right of the two windows, the counter would have been right where the A/C duct is hanging down, the bathrooms right where you see some big bales of hay stacked. It took crews about 6 hours to get the Explorer and the semi out of the store. If you want to see videos taken that night by a local news crew then go here: http://www.newschannel10.com/category/281440/truck-crashes-into-mcdonalds
Oh my, that is quite a mess. It is always a little sobering to see something like that happen at a place we go to often.
ReplyDeleteWow. That's awful in so many ways, including the lack of your morning paper.
ReplyDeleteA local drug store in Tulsa had a drive thru added when an 80 year old woman hit the accelerator instead of the brake. She went through the front windows of the store and thankfully no one was injured. The reason I remember this incident is because upon hearing the news, my 80 year old mother got in her car and drove to the scene of the accident to prove she could go there without driving into the store.
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