On Saturday, June 29th I
left Atoka, Oklahoma at around 12:30 p.m. and was nearing Decatur, Texas at
around 3:00 p.m. when I spotted a car in front of me was stopped in the middle
of the highway. I attempted to go around the car to prevent from hitting it. In turn a car behind me hit me from behind
and put me into a 60 m.p.h. spin where I spun completely off the Highway and
hit a concrete barrier. This caused the
driver's rear wheel to fold under the car.
The backend of the car folded in like an accordion. The rear wheel
raised me up in the seat causing fractures on my spine starting at the Thoracic
level going down to the pelvis and the right tibial bone below the right
knee. Also multiple rib fractures. The car then landed back end into a
water-pond which prevented the gas tank from exploding.
The car wreck happened
around 3:00 p.m. The pictures taken by
an insurance agent from USAA insurance of the wreck rental car showed it was
hit from behind. The lid of the trunk
was undamaged but below the lid the trunk was caved in. Both the Sheriff's department of Wise County
and the tow people attempted to tell Mrs. Roxy Jones of Atoka, Oklahoma that I
had fell to sleep and hit a concrete barrier.
If that was the case, the car would have to been driven in reverse at 60
miles per hour, not forward. Otherwise
the damage would have been done to the front of the car. An ambulance was never notified until around
5:30 p.m., two and half hours later to give them time to get back across the
Oklahoma-Texas state border where they would no longer be under Texas legal
jurisdiction. Also hoping I would be
DEAD by the time they called the ambulance.
Since I lived, the police report was destroyed, none was given to USAA
insurance and denied that any car wreck ever happened in Wise County on this
particular date.
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Front of wrecked rental car |
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Back of rental car after
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The car was facing the highway and as I looked through the windshield, I saw Kathy, her sister Billie and a blond girl walk to the shoulder of the road. The blond girl walked down the embankment and into the pond. She reached into the car and grabbed my right hand through the broken window on the driver's side of the car and proceeded to make several burn marks on the base of my right thumb.
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Burn crosses crease at the
first bone joint of thumb. |
I had received the following
e-mail from Katijo the day after the local elections which was a threat type e-mail.
I heard her screaming to
Kathy and Billie that I was still alive.
Kathy told her to hurry up as they needed to get out of there before
anybody comes.
In the back seat I had my
military uniform with two black berets and a baseball cap I had purchased from
Fort Bragg that had the crossed arrows of the Special Forces as a keep
sake. The blond girl took all three and
they left refusing to call for medical assistance.
The general Army flash on berets is the Generic Blue background with white stars surrounding it which is very common in all general Army active units, Army Reserve units and National Guard. However, I am a member of the Special Operation Forces Civil Affairs. We have our own flash which is known as the CAPOC (Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command) flash which there are not that many units around. There is one in Oklahoma, more precise in Broken Bow which is closer to couple hundred miles away from Antlers, Oklahoma.
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Again the wreck happened at
15:00 hours (3:00 p.m.). According to
the billing statement the ground ambulance responded to the scene at around
17:30 hours (5:30 p.m.) where they got me out of the car and drove me to a waiting
helicopter which flown me to Harris Methodist Hospital in downtown Fort Worth,
which is their closest Trauma Center Hospital.
That meant I had no medical treatment and laid in that car in the pond
for approximately 3 hours.
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