[AT] Scary day

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Farmer,
I am glad your grand daughter is ok.  When I hear a story like this it 
reminds me of the things I did when I was younger.  It is a miracle I 
survived my teen years.  I just hope everyone makes it ok and the youngster 
learn from their mistakes.

David D. Gibson
Greenville, OH
1941 Allis Chalmers B
1942 Allis Chalmers C
1947 Allis Chalmers C
1948 Allis Chalmers C
1972 Allis Chalmers Homesteader
1977 Gilson Lawn Tractor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: <FrugalRuralLiving at yahoogroups.com>; <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:58 PM
Subject: [AT] Scary day


> 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
>
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