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Saturday morning I got up and it was sunny and beautiful outside although a bit too cold to take a ride on the old motorcycle so I jumped in the '97 Firebird (the '98 Trans Am is parked for the winter) and went for a short cruise around town.
I seen one of the unmarked city police cars assisting a motorist that had run out of gas when I was going up Willow St. here in Pekin.
About 10 minutes later I was going back down Willow St. and the cop was sitting his his unmarked squad while the dude was pouring gas into his SUV on the side of the street.
I slowed down a bit and kind of gave a few extra feet between me and the cop car while I started to go around them.
BLAM!
I got hit from behind on the right rear quarter and the Cavalier that hit me went straight into the rear of the squad car and then swung around and sent him and the squad car about 20 feet up the street behind me.
The young policeman was injured and I could tell he was going into shock.
The smell of anti-freeze and the blowing horn on the Cavalier that hit us was piercing through the morning air.
The guy filling his SUV and I finally got the door open on the squad car and helped the policeman out and laid him in the back of the SUV.
Sirens were wailing as others were answering the call of an officer down.
I then went over to the dude fumbling around in his car trying to get out and I recognized him as a fellow that I have had previously met and even tried to get him a job a few years ago as a diesel mechanic with a friend of mine that owns a Tractor-Trailer repair shop in Morton.
He was bleeding pretty good (or bad) and my first reaction was to jerk him out of the car and give him some tough love. :D
He looked at me with a glaze and asked, "What happened?".
I could tell that he did not know where he was at or what he just had done.
It was at 8:19 in the morning and he still had his work clothes on from the night before.
By then rescue and the whole Pekin Police force, all 6 of them were at the scene.
Two buddies that own tow trucks showed up eventually as the injured were being hauled away from the scene.
Charged with DUI, open liquor, no valid driver's license, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and whatever a guy gets for putting a cop in the hospital, I think the young fellow has his work cut out for him as this was his 4th DUI.
On his last DUI he got off with 90 days in County Jail and most likely he is facing a more severe sentence this time.
I'm just grateful that I did not take my motorcycle out Saturday morning instead of the Firebird! :D
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Saturday morning I got up and it was sunny and beautiful outside although a bit too cold to take a ride on the old motorcycle so I jumped in the '97 Firebird (the '98 Trans Am is parked for the winter) and went for a short cruise around town.
I seen one of the unmarked city police cars assisting a motorist that had run out of gas when I was going up Willow St. here in Pekin.
About 10 minutes later I was going back down Willow St. and the cop was sitting his his unmarked squad while the dude was pouring gas into his SUV on the side of the street.
I slowed down a bit and kind of gave a few extra feet between me and the cop car while I started to go around them.
BLAM!
I got hit from behind on the right rear quarter and the Cavalier that hit me went straight into the rear of the squad car and then swung around and sent him and the squad car about 20 feet up the street behind me.
The young policeman was injured and I could tell he was going into shock.
The smell of anti-freeze and the blowing horn on the Cavalier that hit us was piercing through the morning air.
The guy filling his SUV and I finally got the door open on the squad car and helped the policeman out and laid him in the back of the SUV.
Sirens were wailing as others were answering the call of an officer down.
I then went over to the dude fumbling around in his car trying to get out and I recognized him as a fellow that I have had previously met and even tried to get him a job a few years ago as a diesel mechanic with a friend of mine that owns a Tractor-Trailer repair shop in Morton.
He was bleeding pretty good (or bad) and my first reaction was to jerk him out of the car and give him some tough love. :D
He looked at me with a glaze and asked, "What happened?".
I could tell that he did not know where he was at or what he just had done.
It was at 8:19 in the morning and he still had his work clothes on from the night before.
By then rescue and the whole Pekin Police force, all 6 of them were at the scene.
Two buddies that own tow trucks showed up eventually as the injured were being hauled away from the scene.
Charged with DUI, open liquor, no valid driver's license, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and whatever a guy gets for putting a cop in the hospital, I think the young fellow has his work cut out for him as this was his 4th DUI.
On his last DUI he got off with 90 days in County Jail and most likely he is facing a more severe sentence this time.
I'm just grateful that I did not take my motorcycle out Saturday morning instead of the Firebird! :D
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