How not to go through life - sleeping by the side of the road
Tragic accident last Saturday. From
KOMO-TV:
Sleeping man killed by highway brush cutter
A transient in a sleeping bag was accidentally run over and killed by a brush-cutter clearing blackberry bushes at a highway project in south Seattle.
The Transportation Department said it happened Saturday under Interstate 5 near Massachusetts Street where a subcontractor was preparing the site for an expansion joint replacement.
The King County medical examiner's office said Isaac Palmer, 62, died of head trauma.
Transportation Secretary Doug McDonald said it was a tragic accident and that the department is checking to make sure all steps were taken to clear the area of transients.
Police had told transients last Tuesday about the work and told them to leave area, which is posted no trespassing.
Then a special subcontracting crew had worked last week to remove human waste, needles and other drug paraphernalia from a mile long section under the freeway.
My sympathies however are for the driver of the brush clearing tractor. It must have been horrible to all of a sudden realize what that was that you hit -- not just a bag of trash but a human being.
It may sound harsh but I have no sympathy for Mr. Palmer. He literally made his own bed -- the transients were warned, they were trashing the area (making no attempt to keep it clean) and Mr. Palmer could have chosen a safer distance from the roadbed to sleep...
We are free to make our own decisions in life.
Posted by DaveH at June 5, 2007 7:56 PM