Ewwwwwwwwww!
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.c The Associated Press
DELEON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - A motorist drove home about a mile with the legless
body of a pedestrian in his front windshield before calling authorities to
report that he had struck the man with his car, officials said.
Deputies first learned of the accident, which happened about midnight Friday,
from bar patrons who called to report finding two legs near the parking lot,
according to sheriff's reports.
With Joseph Markert's torso lodged in his windshield, Daniel Dradeen, 19, drove
a mile to the home he shared with Ronald Brownie and Brownie's son, who called
911, the reports showed.
Dradeen didn't stop to report the accident because he didn't have a cellular
phone with him and Brownie's home was only about a mile from the accident site,
Brownie said.
``A guy coming through your front windshield tends to rattle you,'' said
Brownie.
Markert, 57, was trying to cross a roadway in DeLeon Springs, about 40 miles
north of Orlando, when he was struck, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The medical examiner will determine if Markert survived the impact, but he
likely died immediately, officials said.
Investigators believe the legs were severed by the impact with the car, not the
windshield. One of Markert's arms was also severed and was found with his torso
in Dradeen's blood-covered car, officials said.
Kim Miller, a spokeswoman for the highway patrol, said Dradeen was not impaired
and no hit-and-run charges will be filed. She said the case is under
investigation.
``It's the pedestrian's fault. He was wearing dark clothing,'' Miller said.
``The poor kid (Dradeen) was in the wrong place at the wrong time.''
Last month in Fort Worth, Texas, a jury sentenced Chante Mallard, 27, of Fort
Worth to 50 years in prison after convicting her of murder in the death of man
she struck with her car and left to die in her windshield in her garage.
07/07/03 23:13 EDT
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press.
Bard
~"When the earth shall claim your limbs,
then you shall truly dance." -Kahlil Gibran
~In Memory~
LUCKYXXME
>legless
>body of a pedestrian in his front windshield before calling authorities to
>report that he had struck the man with his car, officials said.
>
Ewwwwwwww is right! That must've been the longest ride home of that guy's
life! Glad he called the authorities though instead of pulling in the garage &
going in the house & leaving the guy stuck in the windshield like that goofy
woman did!
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I'm telling you!