R50/53 A Mini Accident
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A Mini Accident
"A motorist who stopped yesterday to help at a fatal accident in Lancaster County was hit by a pickup and killed as he apparently tried to remove a tree from the roadway.
State police said the motorist, Michael C. Tapscott, 47, of Kilmarnock was killed about 6:45 a.m., just after the driver of a Mini Cooper hit a tree and plunged down an embankment on state Route 3, about a mile west of state Route 600.
A passenger in the Mini Cooper, Ewell E. Pittman III, 51, of White Stone was thrown through the car's window and killed when the car hit the tree, state police Sgt. Kevin A. Barrick said last night.
Barrick said Tapscott went down the embankment to check on the car's occupants and climbed back up the embankment.
A tree sheared off in the wreck was blocking the roadway, Barrick said.
He said Tapscott apparently was trying to remove the tree when the pickup truck hit him. The pickup truck's driver said he did not see Tapscott, according to Barrick.
The Mini Cooper's driver, who was injured in the wreck, was charged with reckless driving, Barrick said.
He said the driver was treated at a local hospital."
State police said the motorist, Michael C. Tapscott, 47, of Kilmarnock was killed about 6:45 a.m., just after the driver of a Mini Cooper hit a tree and plunged down an embankment on state Route 3, about a mile west of state Route 600.
A passenger in the Mini Cooper, Ewell E. Pittman III, 51, of White Stone was thrown through the car's window and killed when the car hit the tree, state police Sgt. Kevin A. Barrick said last night.
Barrick said Tapscott went down the embankment to check on the car's occupants and climbed back up the embankment.
A tree sheared off in the wreck was blocking the roadway, Barrick said.
He said Tapscott apparently was trying to remove the tree when the pickup truck hit him. The pickup truck's driver said he did not see Tapscott, according to Barrick.
The Mini Cooper's driver, who was injured in the wreck, was charged with reckless driving, Barrick said.
He said the driver was treated at a local hospital."
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But for MINI land, worst of all ... "reckless driving" .... I just hope this wasn't a twisty road where the MINI driver wasn't trying to prove something ... because that would be a tragedy
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Seatbelts are a must, of course.
This has truly saddened me. Just like the story I heard on the news this morning about a floor mat that slipped up and blocked the brake pedal and killed a lady and her two kids. No, it wasn't a MINI, but today was full of sad stories...
I hope that good samiritan doesn't have a negative view of all MINI drivers now...
This has truly saddened me. Just like the story I heard on the news this morning about a floor mat that slipped up and blocked the brake pedal and killed a lady and her two kids. No, it wasn't a MINI, but today was full of sad stories...
I hope that good samiritan doesn't have a negative view of all MINI drivers now...
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Well i didn't mean to make everyone so sad, but i read the headline and thought it was sad he was killed for helping, but then i thought that's terrible it was a MINI, and worse, that someone died in a MINI accident. I guess these things happen, but it's really, really sad all that happened. The car hitting a tree and flying down an embankment, the passenger being killed, the good saaritan being killed, and the driver of the mini and the driver of the truck have to live with it, as does all their families.
I was worried i would have known them, but i don't know anyone in lancaster county.
I was worried i would have known them, but i don't know anyone in lancaster county.
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