Pedestrian hit in Plain Road Hinsdale

It was about 25 feet from my bike accident of about two years ago. Everyone panicked when they discovered I was out on my bike and their were a ton of police cruisers, fire trucks and Ambulances on Plain Road near my house.

Everyone goes like supersonic on this road, beer and alcohol beverages containers are all over the side of the road for miles and miles. Everyone is on their cell phones and texting. My basic beef is people go too fast and especially when dark.

Just after twilight...

Two guys were walking on the side of the road in the dark...when bam one got hir way up in the air and landed in ditch. It was a black pickup truck.

The guy in the ditch was moving around writhing in pain but silence.

His pants and shoes where on the ground, and it it freezing out... were off him right from the beginning. We don't know if the collision knock him out of his pants and shoes, or he removed them to look for his injuries when he was more conscious.

When i got there he was rolled up in a little ball, and he didn't have the ability to take off his shoes....?

Near the utility right of way Mike? I had thought people stopped using Plain road as a throughway once the old Wal Mart was closed. Why would anyone be in a rush to get to Brattleboro or Downtown Hinsdale I will never know…..unless they were headed to Keene?

People are under economic stress, they are working more and making less money. They don't have enought time, they are driving their children all over the place and going to the supermarket...they are just trying to capture a few extra seconds from a life that is to busy. A lot of people spend a lot of time on the road going back and forth to a long distant job.

These are mostly people who live in the area going back and forth to the things of their lives...

Mike Mulligan wrote:

People are under economic stress, they are working more and making less money. They don't have enought time, they are driving their children all over the place and going to the supermarket...they are just trying to capture a few extra seconds from a life that is to busy. A lot of people spend a lot of time on the road going back and forth to a long distant job.
These are mostly people who live in the area going back and forth to the things of their lives...

So they were rushing to the package store (T-Bird) and trying to get home for the big Patriots game? Dirt floors and 52 inch flat screens…..

You know, it was one of those big muscular manly pick up trucks...

The pickup was going down the wrong way on Plain Road to be coming from Tbirds...but it is a plausible scenario...

That poor new Hinsdale policeman Mike...he was the first policeman on the scene who come to me when when I was all dazed.

The rescue ambulance came within their distant timeframe...they did as well as they could.

Come on, you know what what I am talking about. The hyped up zone where we got to be moving and driving our cars and always moving, on a mission necessitating high important speeds. Maybe a way to disassociate ourselves from our stressful and the needy world, our disappointments over our lives...on the move to get away and on a mission, but still connected in by our electronic...

We are dissociated to everything in our lives and utterly connected at the same time...

When I got to the scene, I was cutting into my road on my off Plain Road...about 50 feet down the road was three or four individual standing on the side of the road. They were looking into a road culvert hole. There was a black pickup parked facing the wrong way was on Plain Road...right at the head of Woodlawn Lane.
I heard a sound of somebody saying "its moving and breathing"....
I thought it was a dog, cat or deer maybe a coyote that got hit. I seen the damage on the front of the pickup truck.
Then I put my bike up against the house...heard a police siren off in the distance. That is when I thought, I wonder if it is coming from the scene on Plain Road. Sure enough in a few seconds the police cruiser flashing lights I could see, then I walked up to the accident.
A kid a few houses down after a few minutes ran up to me all happy and jumping up and down... He said "we thought it was you again that got hit bay a car". "I am so happy to see it wasn't you"....
They all know me for continuously being on the road with my bike. I am sure each of them swore at me a time or two as they were trying to get passed me in their cars as I was darting around on the side of the road with the bike.

It was a 14 year old kid that was hit.

Mike Mulligan wrote:

Come on, you know what what I am talking about. The hyped up zone where we got to be moving and driving our cars and always moving, on a mission necessitating high important speeds. Maybe a way to disassociate ourselves from our stressful and the needy world, our disappointments over our lives...on the move to get away and on a mission, but still connected in by our electronic...
We are dissociated to everything in our lives and utterly connected at the same time...

Good thing you only drive a bike man. I would hate to face such a depressed person in an automobile.

Last Call wrote:

<quoted text>Good thing you only drive a bike man. I would hate to face such a depressed person in an automobile.

FYI - Hinsdale just took down the last streetlight on plain rd which is about 1/4 of a mile from where the victim was hit yesterday. They took it down to "save money" Look what happend!!!

Last Call wrote:

<quoted text>Good thing you only drive a bike man. I would hate to face such a depressed person in an automobile.

I drive a big honking four door Cadillac DeVille with 8 Northstar cylinders?

So you are heading north on Plain Road from downtown Hinsdale. You are through the curves of the high voltage power lines...you got about a mile of a straight away road ahead. At the end it begins to rise slightly, doglegs to the right...then you see a pretty steep but short hill of about 20 to 30 feet elevation. At the very top of the hill another sharp dogleg right occurs. Right next to the right hand side of the road during the top of the hill and curve is the steep shoulger hill.It is a steep hilly shoulder just feet from the road. The shoulder hill is so steep and close to the road you can't see around the curve. I imagine you are a little concerned about not seeing over the hill worrying about on coming traffic.

From the top rise of the hill and the end of the curve, the accident happened about 20 to 30 feet.

I bet you that hill in nothing but sand and it could be easily be removed. I bet you the shoulder hill is a huge factor in this accident.

There is only fractions of seconds from the top of the hill and past the dogleg, before you could see the accident area.

So as a rural road walker on the night...what is the proper way to walk on the road? I would walk facing towards oncoming traffic so I could see erratic drivers on my side. I don't think these guys were walking right, they were walking the same way as traffic. They couldn't see who was closest to them?

I think these walkers were reckless, I know they could hear the car approaching them from the rear...they should have been worried about hearing the car, about the risk to their lives and, stepped way off the road.

You know, it is more risky walking drunk than driving a car drunk or impaired....

You are more likely stumbling into a moving car while walking and certainly using poor judgement...

But the only one who has a good chance of not getting hurt is the guy who had the shield of, plastic, steel and iron....

Hinsdale resident wrote:

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FYI - Hinsdale just took down the last streetlight on plain rd which is about 1/4 of a mile from where the victim was hit yesterday. They took it down to "save money" Look what happend!!!

Excellent point! We just lost a teenager tonight in Vernon. Hit by a train near his home so horrible.

Mike Mulligan wrote:

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I drive a big honking four door Cadillac DeVille with 8 Northstar cylinders?

color?

Puking Burgundy...like somebody threw up red wine.

Mike Mulligan wrote:

Puking Burgundy...like somebody threw up red wine.

thanks for the heads up

My mountain bike is grey and blue...I ride that a lot more.

Mike Mulligan wrote:

You are more likely stumbling into a moving car while walking and certainly using poor judgement...
But the only one who has a good chance of not getting hurt is the guy who had the shield of, plastic, steel and iron....

But the only one who has a good chance of not getting hurt is the guy who had the shield of plastic, steel and iron around them....