July 4th Fatality (Politics And Prose)

Title: July 4th Fatality

RancerDS - July 6, 2007 12:19 PM (GMT)

While leaving Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie, traffic actually was not moving at all for about 20-25 minutes. A police SUV had driven past the lines of cars to insure the incoming lane was open. This was probably to insure they could reach anyone anywhere in the park with emergency vehicles.

As we did finally near the entrance to the park on the way out, the police started redirecting traffic to the left towards Highway 67. The officer had told friends and family members that there was a "fatality" accident up ahead on the right. On the following morning, a Dallas public utility worker had called to state that reports were reaching him that it was a death resulting from fireworks accidentally going off within a vehicle. This report is yet to be confirmed by local news media or any other sources. Nor is any kind of vehicle-related death recorded in Grand Prairie during this past Fourth of July.

When seeing the ambulance lights near the top of the hill on the right, it came to mind that it could have been an automobile struck by a train.

Officially...

QUOTE (City of Grand Prairie)

According to the Union Pacific Railroad, an average of 40 trains pass through Grand Prairie daily on one of the busiest tracks in the nation. Grand Prairie currently has eleven crossings on this rail line and, unfortunately, has the highest railroad crossing fatality rate of any city in Texas.

SOURCE of QUOTE is http://www.gptx.org/WhatsNew.aspx

ELSEWHERE....

QUOTE

MELVINDALE, Michigan (AP) -- A powerful firework exploded in the face of a woman trying to set it off, killing her as her fiance and 8-year-old son watched, police said.

Danialle Barse, 27, was unfamiliar with the commercial-grade aerial firework she was using Monday night, said Mike Welch, a police detective in this Detroit suburb.

"She basically killed herself in front her children and her fiance," Welch said.

Barse and another woman were trying to set off a 3-inch mortar bomb in the parking lot of the car wash where Barse worked when it went off as she had her head over it, Welch said.

SOURCE - http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/04/fireworks...html#cnnSTCText

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