This one happened to me a few years ago. While enroute to the fourth alarm at Home Depot that night. I hear an officer (a very close friend) call in that he is clear a signal to his house and that he is returning to his sector. (downtown) While still holding the mic, I, and everyone else in scanner land hear the following.... Oh shit! hang on Dave (a new recruit) and in the background we hear "Here comes the pain!" Then a loud crash, my friend making an Ugh! sound and then the mic went dead.
I happened to be around the bend in the road and immediatly volunteered to find out what happened. As I arrived I see two cops staggering around, an elderly couple standing next to them trying to walk them to the sidewalk, and a brown four door sedan with it's passenger side jammed up against a massive oak tree's trunk.
I check on the officers first (Of course) and find them both dazed, Dave (the recruit) has his glasses busted and smashed against his face. Both are no longer fans of the airbags. They are able to quickly relate that the brown sedan had attempted to turn left as they were traveling straight in the opposite direction. The sedan hit them head on at about 45 miles an hour.
After getting them medical attention, I walk over to the sedan. Inside the sedan I see the operator with seatbelt on, changing the radio station and then holding the wheel as if he was still traveling down the road. I then knock on the drivers window and the operator looked at me as if to say, why are you running along side my vehicle??? He rolls the window down and says............
Why are you stopping me??? I wasn't speeding!!! After a brief chuckle, I point to his passenger seat. He stops talking, turns to the seat and then looks skyward following the bark of the tree up from the seat through the roof and into the sky and says..............
How did that get there???
P.S. he got found not guilty as he was the sole provider for his mother who was bed ridden and crippled. Oh well.