TravelTalkOnline
Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed
Posted By: ruralcarrier
Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/13/2019 08:48 PM
Posted By: deputydog1157
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/13/2019 10:26 PM
It's a dangerous job, especially when the lighting conditions are less than daylight. My dad worked for the sanitation department in New York City for 26 years and had some of his colleagues get injured from debris.
Posted By: boucharda
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/14/2019 05:02 PM
A three year old tooling along on his little yellow car was crushed by a car that drove into a crowd. Others were seriously injured. Tough day in SXM....
Posted By: Carol_Hill
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/14/2019 05:55 PM
..and another person killed as a result of an accident involving a drunk driver.
Link
Posted By: SXMScubaman
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/14/2019 06:29 PM
And not wearing seat belts which in this day and age I can't understand. Not that it might not have made a difference but who knows.
Posted By: deputydog1157
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/14/2019 08:47 PM
I can tell you from 35+ years of emergency service (LEO and EMS) that I have never unbuckled a dead person. I'm sure someone will come back with the out -of-the-ordinary story where a seat belt did not stop the person from being killed like Dale Earnhardt Sr. However, in the hundreds of crashes I have responded to and the occupants were buckled in, they survived. I don't back out of my garage without being buckled in.
Posted By: SXMScubaman
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/14/2019 10:26 PM
Here is one for you that happened to me in a car crash coming home from college 50 years ago. I wasn't wearing a seat belt, no shoulder belts then, and was thrown to the side of my bench seat before the 4x4 post came through the windshield and impaled the seat where I was sitting on the drivers side. Officer told me he expected the diver to be dead as he walked up and saw the post though the windshield.
Posted By: deputydog1157
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/15/2019 01:11 PM
:Like I said on my post; Someone will come up with the one in a million case where it may have been a benefit for nor wearing a seat belt. As to your post were you driving a boat? I see you stated the officer expected the diver to be dead.
Posted By: SXMScubaman
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/15/2019 03:48 PM
:Like I said on my post; Someone will come up with the one in a million case where it may have been a benefit for nor wearing a seat belt. As to your post were you driving a boat? I see you stated the officer expected the diver to be dead.
Nope. That was a typo I didn't catch. Driver not diver.
Posted By: SXMScubaman
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/15/2019 04:07 PM
..and another person killed as a result of an accident involving a drunk driver.
LinkAnd that driver was just released. No blood alcohol test given.
https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islan...involved-in-first-road-fatality-released
Posted By: LBI2SXM
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/15/2019 06:21 PM
Well that's just great, not even a hand slapped! All they are doing is encouraging drunks to get behind the wheel because there is no penalty and vehicular homicide to boot. How do they allow this?? The French side has the right idea.
Posted By: SXMScubaman
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/15/2019 06:33 PM
With no Blood alcohol test you can't say he was drunk.
Posted By: boucharda
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/15/2019 07:54 PM
She....
Posted By: Carol_Hill
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/16/2019 02:00 PM
According to today's Daily Herald, the driver will be charged.
LinkAnd, not that it really matters, the paper today says it was a young man.
Posted By: boucharda
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/16/2019 03:15 PM
Saw that male reference...no clue where or if I saw female. One of the passengers that was involved was female and maybe I transposed.
Posted By: LBI2SXM
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/16/2019 06:15 PM
St. Maarten police force does not have a breathalyzer?????
Posted By: Carol_Hill
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/16/2019 06:20 PM
They do, yes. Not sure why the person wasn't tested.
Posted By: LBI2SXM
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/16/2019 06:25 PM
They do, yes. Not sure why the person wasn't tested.
Carol I just re read the 2nd paragraph in the newspaper link you posted. Am I reading it wrong?
Posted By: SXMScubaman
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/16/2019 06:29 PM
No, your reading it right. Said they don't have one.
Posted By: Carol_Hill
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/16/2019 06:35 PM
Sorry, I missed that. They were talking about the minister who was involved in an alcohol related accident, having been given a test, which was a blood test, so I got it mixed up.
Posted By: BillandElaine
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/17/2019 06:19 PM
Latest on breathalyzer from the prosecutors office.
Openbaar Ministerie Sint Maarten/ Public Prosecutor's Office Sint Maarten
19 mins ·
Clarification:
The Public Prosecutor’s Office would like to clarify a misunderstanding pertaining to the release of the young man following the fatal road accident on A.J.C. Brouwer Road on Saturday morning, January 12, 2019. There is no stipulation in the law that asserts that a test of blood or breath can be carried out subsequently, even if the driver was involved in an accident or if there is suspicion that the driver is under the influence. If a driver wants to prove that he/she is not under the influence he/she can volunteer to do a blood test.
Posted By: LBI2SXM
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/17/2019 06:34 PM
You will not find many drunks going along with that law. LOL
Posted By: Uksimonusa
Re: Sad/Garbage Collection Employee Killed - 01/18/2019 12:09 AM
Latest on breathalyzer from the prosecutors office.
Openbaar Ministerie Sint Maarten/ Public Prosecutor's Office Sint Maarten
19 mins ·
Clarification:
The Public Prosecutor’s Office would like to clarify a misunderstanding pertaining to the release of the young man following the fatal road accident on A.J.C. Brouwer Road on Saturday morning, January 12, 2019. There is no stipulation in the law that asserts that a test of blood or breath can be carried out subsequently, even if the driver was involved in an accident or if there is suspicion that the driver is under the influence. If a driver wants to prove that he/she is not under the influence he/she can volunteer to do a blood test.
So sort of Guilty until proven innocent if the offender wants to do that