KAT’S SCANNER SCOOP THURS OCT 23RD+FATAL MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT
By Kat • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Scanner Scoop12:47a.m. EMS responding to Clayton Lane to an 81 y/o female that has been in and out of the hospital lately. Caregiver says she appears dehydrated.
Alarm going off at a rear door at Rent-A-Center, nothing found. Building is secure.
I will update later but there was a fatal motorcycle accident on McBrayer Road in Clearfield near the church/store/Eagle View Apartment area. I was watching TV with my girlfriend when we heard it happen and looked out and it was a horrific scene. Her apartment is only about 80 feet from where the motorcycle landed. I’m sure it will probably be in tomorrow’s paper and it will be on the Channel 18 news tonight, Jessica Moore was there interviewing and I am sending in some pictures I took. Those of us around know the person’s name, etc., but I’m not going to put it on here. At first they said there was a baby because this one woman kept screaming ‘my baby’, and there was a small white sheet over one area and another area blocked off by a tarp between an ambulance and fire truck. The wind blew the tarp up and you could see that it was one person but it was so horrific that everything was not in one place. Afterwards, emergency personnel took plastic bags and with gloves on walked together picking up what they could. I think that is probably more than enough to say right now. His girlfriend was, understandably hysterical.
2 tone outs at 10:58a.m. one was a kitchen grease fire and another run to the VA clinic to a male with chest pain. They were at the VA clinic earlier for what I think was a man having shortness of breath.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Pictures from the motorcycle accident scene.
Here’s the best I can do with the pictures that you sent me Kat…
For some reason I can’t embed the image, so just click on the link below.
http://rowanreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/crash.jpg
I cropped, resized, and converted the pictures into one image to save on server space.
Kat’s original pictures are much better quality images.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Thanks nighthawk. I TOTALLY understand the emergency units telling everyone to leave the scene, etc., they were quite vocal about that, as it was a horrific scene but I never left my girlfriends drive-way/yard/porch. Her apartment is right there on the corner. There were others that were walking into the street, etc. As I was going home the one guy who is the brother? I believe of the dead man’s girlfriend said he had just purchased the motorcycle that day, I believe, and he said the chain kept locking up on him. Anyway, prayers to his family and friends.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Keeping people out of the way of the emergency responders and accident investigators, and
making sure the scene isn’t contaminated is one thing, and is to be expected.
But telling people who aren’t disrupting or disturbing the scene or investigation, and are
merely taking photographs from a reasonable distance, out of the way of the emergency crews,
and not trampling the scene is a whole different story.
Kat has served as a photojournalist for RowanReview online magazine for a number of years,
and exercises reasonable judgment and discretion in the pictures she submits for syndication.
I think that Kat might have fallen victom to a few with the “authority complex” that is the
makings of a barbarian/totalitarian government.
I don’t doubt that the people yelling at her to “STOP TAKING PICTURES!” were trained to do
so, but it’s very likely that her constitutional rights may have been infringed upon…
If you take the following into consideration perhaps you will agree with my opinion:
*She was on private property with permission to be there.
*She didn’t leave the private property and enter upon the scene.
*She wasn’t trampling or disturbing the scene.
*She wasn’t in the way of the investigators or emergency crews.
I know of a similar with an ex-reporter who used to capture footage of fires and accidents for
the local television station. The authorities would try and tell him to stop filming, and his
response (if I remember correctly) was “You Can’t Censor The News!”…
Unfortunately though, I think he got tired of the constant bickering with those who suffer
from an authority complex, and just hang his camera up, retiring…
A big loss to us locals to say the least.
But when we talk about the “Police State”, “A Controlled Press”, or even “Media Puppets”,
this is the angle we are coming from… We don’t just sit around and make this stuff up.
And now Kat has experienced this type of treatment for herself.
Hang in there Kat and stick with what you do.
You are doing a good job.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Thanks nighthawk. I just happened to be there at that corner apartment at Eagle View and we were on the porch when it all happened. Of course, I grabbed my camera. That’s still the trauma junkie in me that made me enter nursing many years ago. Anyway, I can not believe the picture is the paper was the best they could get from someone that gets paid to take photo’s. As you can tell from ALL the pictures I took, they were all from pretty much the same angle and you can see her driveway in some of them. I was in no way whatsoever in the way of the emergency crew trying to shield the scene as pictures were taken. It certainly wasn’t anything to revel in and say, “Oh look what great pic’s I took”, there were no great pic’s of something like that, if you know what I mean. Like I said, just happened to be within 50 feet of the accident when it happened, and just like a lot of others, I suppose, I wasn’t the only one that had a restless night last night. Kinda like when we were hit by that semi-truck and hooked on his front bumper on our sides and flipped over an embankment back in August 1990, it just keeps playing over and over in your mind like a bad movie with the worst scenes looped over. Anyway, still much prayer and God Blessing to this family.
And yes, I heard about that ‘explosion’ today. They never did find a source but it was also heard around Christy Creek? Weird! First call came in from the 700 block of McBrayer Road.