Accident April 16 2009 18 wheeler

FINAL ENTRY;I have not been able to talk to you T.... but know we are here, as well as the rest of the family, when you are able to come home with the girls. I'm hoping that is soon. Andrew was a helluva man. You are a helluva woman. Be strong, yes you have it in you. Everyone be safe on your journey home.

Some people, why even bother trying to rationalize with them...
Well Spring break is over time to load the truck and move on down the highway.
Later folks....God Speed on your recoveries

SETTHE RECORD STRAIGHT wrote:

<quoted text>Just to set the record straight ANTON did not run to help!!! He never tried to help at all people were flagged don to help!!This I know as fact as Two wonderful ANGELS one named Ariel and her father stopped to help and called 911.many people stopped to help but ANTON was nowhere to be found! He as still in his truck when the whp arrived! I too have seen the police report andhe was in fact driving 70 and admitted it right away!! They were at a dead stop and HE had a full load in his trailor! No one has heard any remorse fromt the officers or jail staff.Unusual I say.NO HUMANESS as far as I am concerned.I am sorry if you think HE is suffering but he doessn't know suffering till you look into those suffering eyes of the little one who has nothing but emptiness in her and her Mothers eyes.theyoungest can't be told because she has such severe brain and head trauma.So maybe you should put yourself in their shoes !Oh thats right they have no shoes.Thank you Andrew for the ultimate sacrifice you gave to save your family.I know you are in Heaven sitting at the right hand of God for such an unconditional love you gave. these are facts .Get it right before you overstep yourself in your statements!!!!!Andrew will be terribly missed.

SETTHE RECORD STRAIGHT wrote:

<quoted text>Just to set the record straight ANTON did not run to help!!! He never tried to help at all people were flagged don to help!!This I know as fact as Two wonderful ANGELS one named Ariel and her father stopped to help and called 911.many people stopped to help but ANTON was nowhere to be found! He as still in his truck when the whp arrived! I too have seen the police report andhe was in fact driving 70 and admitted it right away!! They were at a dead stop and HE had a full load in his trailor! No one has heard any remorse fromt the officers or jail staff.Unusual I say.NO HUMANESS as far as I am concerned.I am sorry if you think HE is suffering but he doessn't know suffering till you look into those suffering eyes of the little one who has nothing but emptiness in her and her Mothers eyes.theyoungest can't be told because she has such severe brain and head trauma.So maybe you should put yourself in their shoes !Oh thats right they have no shoes.Thank you Andrew for the ultimate sacrifice you gave to save your family.I know you are in Heaven sitting at the right hand of God for such an unconditional love you gave. these are facts .Get it right before you overstep yourself in your statements!!!!!Andrew will be terribly missed.

I don't know where you get your information BUT the fact is Mr. Antons trailer is a flatbed used for hauling refinery tankers AND WAS tottally EMPTY at the time of the accident. There is no call to make false statmwnts or exagerate the facts. All that does is make a tragic situation worse. An accident IS an accident

Look under public records at the police report.Itsays FULL LOAD!!!I have all the facts...I know it was an accident that could have been avoided with a little common sense.I am angry and I don't mean to stop you from your grief or take anything away from it.This is not about blame it's about the Laws and facts..it says FULL LOAD!!!!! LOOK IT UP !!and what happened in 95! Safety comes first!God bless ,Anger will pass in time.Hopefully we can someday get to forgiveness.

Report is WRONG. Trailer was empty

Take my word on it ....he was going 70, he did not run to help, and it was not an empty flat bed trailor. I can guarantee that. I will not say more but PLEASE for the sake of those that are the TRUE VICTIMS ... quit trying to give details unless you were there at the scene of that accident and have seen the COMPLETE DEVASTATION that used to be happy family on their way to the FIRST FAMILY VACATION THAT HAD EVER BEEN ABLE TO TAKE.

If this is the second time he has done this then we need to ask" Why is he still driving?" What state did this happen in and why did they let him off with no penalty?" I may not be a trucker but come on now if he had been using his brain to begin with then this wouldn't have happened. If he were going 30mph then there could of been a chance that Andrew( Bless him his wife and kids) would still be here injured but with his wife and kids, but because of his erratic driving he must not only face what the court system will give him but there is also a thing called KARMA and it will get him good. NO truck should be going that fast on a sunny day let alone a snowing and nasty day... Anyone who drive knows that and if he didnt then he needs to stay off the road and oout of a truck... I HOPE he gets put away for a long time for what he has done to my family and the family of the poor soul he killed before doing the same thing....

http://www.rawlinstimes.com/shared-content/ga...

Cut and paste the above link if you care to see the difference between an accident and a WRECK. Let's all stop the gross misuse of the word accident. Accidents are not preventable. Deer crossings cause accidents. Earthquakes cause accidents. Mudslides cause accidents. Commercial truck drivers operating their rigs too fast for safe driving -cause WRECKS. I don't care if the car that was rear-ended was stopped in the number 1 travel lane. If this particular commercial driver was unable to stop in time then he was going to fast. The man is a Wyoming resident. He knows what snow is. The extent of the damage that was caused in this WRECK speaks for itself. Highway Patrolmen conduct accident investigations with scientific formula to include grade, road conditions, the particular type of material used for the road etc... All that report will do is slam dunk this case. "I made a mistake" is not a criminal defense. I hope the surviving members of the VICTIM family are never under the impression that this wreck could not have been avoided.

I think y'all watch to much CSI.
Karma goes alot of ways just take a look at the way you all are acting, some should heed their own advice on the comments as well. grow up people for Gods sake your suppose to be adults start acting maturely for once and show you have some common sense, or do you need a box of crayons to chew.
it sickens me that in a time of crises you cant even pull together and help each other heal.
at least e-mail each other and get your stories straight before posting.

Brother at Heart: Exactly what I was thinking. I know the truck did not have a load. I am not sure why the family feels as though they are all ACCIDENT experts. My heart is saddened by this. It is hurtful and mean for people to assume something about Mr. Anton that they have no idea about. Look in the mirror folks. Can you see a perfect reflection looking back at you? If not, let's try to live as we should and NOT JUDGE OTHERS

i have been a friend of mr anton for many years many years i feell that a few things need to b said and please in no way am i saying ur grief is not warrented i feel deely for ur loss i trully do but anton was on his way home his tralor should have been empty and as far as concerned she or he is a bitterr person if its the she hers is to do nothing but cause grieff because she wanted all of antons money and didnnt recive it her name is cindy mr anton lost a lot in the first accident more than most would know the male taht it could b would b terry his is jelousy over the job thought he was deseving of mr atons position so pplease i am not asking u to forget ur loved ones we all handel grief and stres in many different ways he might not have been mentally able to get out of the truck dont know that i would have benn able i all so know for a fact that for anton i very grief striken not for him self but for ur loss hes not a clod hearted monster hes a man that made a misstake some in an early stae ment said because he drives a big rig he has to look out more than a regular vehical not true brother when u barly miss a motorcycle in ur can sit back wht if u had hit him we cant controll every thing around us we all make bad jugments some times as for the familly and the lill ones my heart bleeds for u deeply very very deeply

I have just found this site seen my name brought up guess what I didnt want harrys job his truck yeah i would have liked a few more wy loads But as far as my name goes leave me out of your petty BS!!!!!!!!!! If you want my opion call me or come see me my heart goes out to the family my prayers a with the kids

leave me out of this

To the brother-in-law or family from Reno, NV. My friends and I stopped to help at the accident scene. Would you be able to contact me via email as I have Andrews Car Keys that I am trying to get back to the family. Please email me at dlovette80@hotmail.com.

Ok as much as every person invovled has an opinion, that is all it is your personal opioion.
I pled that knowone else blog on this blog. I understand that this horrific accident changed many people lives but it is now time to heal. Nothing anyone has said or done on this blog will ever change the fact that Andrew a husband,dad, brother and friend was killed, A wife left a window, and two little girls are very hurt,. As well as one man in jail. That is all the facts that matter at this point. My Blessing goes out to every family member this has effected. Only time be the deciding factor!

Thank-you Enough! It is time to stop ! Please I can hardly take this anymore!I haved tried not to post as I am an immediate family member of this family.PLEASE PLEASE STOP!!! Like Enough has posted,NOONE can change this tragic situation.What we all need is to for you all to pray for all concerned instead of being so ANGRY. I am very hurt,My heart is broken and we as a family are still in the anger part of the grieving process!Forgivness takes awhile to get to as it has only been a week since this tradgedy.WE will forever miss our Drew!He truly is a "HERO" to our family and everything else is what it is!Onlytime will tell. GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS and Sympathy FOR MY PRECIOUS GIRLS>

Pending further legal actions. Family and friends, please no posting/ commenting/ ect.
The law enforcement is handling the investigation.
Thank you.

I like how the victims families insist that all they have heard are "FACTS"... Truth be told, police reports contain inaccurate information all the time. I have personally been involved in two car accidents in which the facts were simply not given by the cop. The officer made assumptions in my case about my destination, and also placed my car in the front of the line of 4, when I was actually second in line of 5.... So... Because you read something does not make is to. Further, it is unfair to say that you know the facts, but that nobody else should comment if they were not there... Were you there? If not, then we all have the right to our voices and opinions. Hopefully we can see one another's point of view and keep things civil...

You can get "facts" so called all over the place. I have yet to see the "truth" printed in the newspaper. I have been involved in different incidents and know what happened. Then when they came out in the newspaper I couldn't even recognize the true facts mixed with the poetic license.

As for Mr. Anton... He is where he belongs. Justice will be served. They do not put people in jail without reason. And they certainly don't put people in jail for simply having an accident! Oh, I'm sorry the jail/prison is full of people who didn't do it!

My heart goes out to the 2 children who are physically hurt (at the time critically) and the grieving, injured mother who is now alone to raise her family. This was a loss that didn't have to have happened.

It's unbelievable to me the things that people will say about innocent people who were killed and injured for life. There are facts, they have been proven and Arthur was the one who admitted to be going 70 when he passed the vehicle that he then hit.
I see the injuries and pain that this wreck has caused .. It's been 6 months and you can still see the shock and devastation in the eyes of the three people who survived that wreck.I am terribly sorry that Arthur Anton is so grief stricken and feels terrible for what he caused that day, fortunate for him , he will get his day in court, will get to tell his side, and unfortunantly for the man killed in that wreck, he did not get that same treatment. When you wake up from a nightmare as my family is living, you realize that although the children and the mother in that car where given a second chance for life, it's not a life any of you would want to live. Holidays, birthdays and just simple nights at home with Mom, Dad and the girls are no more. The children are grief stricken, the mother on the verge of a breakdown. Please.. Think before you write such things .. There is only one person who truly knows what happened minutes after that crash, and she can and will tell anyone including a jury that at no time did she see Anton, that she had to walk down a highway barefoot to flag down people to help as her children and husband lay dying in that car. One day she will be able to do just that, and hopefully then you will be able to see that it was irresponsibility and disregard for anyone else on that road that day, and because of that, the lives of so many, but more impportantly, a 7 and a 9 year old are forever altered and changed.