[AT] Scary day

[Indiana Robinson]

	Our phone went out today, both lines, and the phone was also out at my mother's house 
(here on the farm). I told Diana to call it in and she said "how?" I said use your cell 
phone... duh!   :-)   It is all back on now and I still don't know what the problem was. 
We were listening to a flurry of traffic on the scanner to see if we could tell what was 
going on. There was a serious accident only about a mile from our place and we thought 
that might be the problem (it wasn't). The accident involved a batch of teens in one 
vehicle. A bit later my cell-phone rang and it was one of our daughters telling us that 
our oldest daughter had been trying to call us and could not get through. Seems one of 
our 14 year old grand-daughters was in that accident and her mother was trying to call us 
to come to the hospital. Seems that the little dummy had climbed into the back of a 
pickup truck with some friends and was heading to a place in Big Flatrock River about 6 
miles south of here that has a wide flat stone bottom and is shallow. It is known locally 
as "the flats". People have been playing there for over 100 years. There were 7 total in 
the truck. Not a one of the Dummies had a seat belt on. They came to the highway and 
pulled across in front of a car the driver did not see which hit them broadside. All but 
one of the teens were thrown from the truck and all had various injuries. Two were 
ejected through the rear window. Two were flown by chopper to Methodist Hospital in Indy 
(rated as one of the better trauma centers in the country) and are in intensive care. One 
was unresponsive. Fortunately after a lengthy wait at the hospital we found that our 
grand-daughter was not seriously injured after x-rays and a CT scan. Just some cuts etc 
and some bruising and a concussion. She was unconscious at the scene but awake at the 
hospital. We still have no news of the people in the car. Late news is that they believe 
the two that were flown to Indy will make it...
	Maybe tomorrow will be a better day...

-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100 
years 
before the revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net