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exotix
01-19-2016, 02:37 PM
*Breaking*

Ben Carson campaign staff injured in Iowa car wreck (http://theweek.com/speedreads/600146/ben-carson-campaign-staff-injured-iowa-car-wreck)

http://theweek.com/speedreads/600146/ben-carson-campaign-staff-injured-iowa-car-wreck

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leekohler2
01-19-2016, 02:40 PM
Oh, that's terrible. I hope they're all OK. It sounds like it was a pretty bad accident.

Cigar
01-19-2016, 02:41 PM
Wow ... not good.

Hope everyone comes out ok

Bo-4
01-19-2016, 02:42 PM
I didn't know he had any staffers left.

Best to those folks and their speedy recovery, but the time has come Ben.

Get back to your book tour.

texan
01-19-2016, 02:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1w3FgB0Ohc

texan
01-19-2016, 02:58 PM
When I first read the title I thought it said Ben Carson flips off van in Iowa.

Cigar
01-19-2016, 03:14 PM
Members of Carson's campaign involved in car accident -1 staffer reported to be in 'grave' conditionIn a statement released Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson announced he would suspend all of his campaign activities for the day after four of his volunteers were involved in a car accident.

Alexandria, Va. - January 19, 2016 - Earlier today in Iowa, a van transporting three campaign volunteers and a Carson campaign employee hit a patch of ice and flipped on its side where it was struck by another vehicle. Three of the passengers, including the campaign staffer driving, are currently being checked out at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. One volunteer is being transported to the trauma center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.

Dr. Carson has spoken with the family of the volunteer being transported to Omaha, as well as the attending physician. Dr. Carson has cancelled all remaining campaign events today and will be traveling to Omaha this afternoon to be with the family during this difficult time.

Dr. Carson is asking people to join him in prayer for all the individuals and families involved.


According to the statement, the van transporting three people on his campaign hit a patch of ice in Iowa, flipped on its side and was struck by another vehicle. Three of the passengers, including the driver, were sent to a hospital in Iowa while another passenger was transported to the trauma center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

One ABC reporter described the condition of one of the passengers as “grave.”


Read more: http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/democracy-2016/members-of-ben-carsons-campaign-involved-in-car-accident

Peter1469
01-19-2016, 04:49 PM
Watch out for ice.

TrueBlue
01-19-2016, 05:06 PM
My prayers are with those injured. May they quickly heal.

TrueBlue
01-19-2016, 05:14 PM
Watch out for ice.
You're right! I used to live in Iowa and the Winters were brutal! Single digit temperatures most times when it gets really cold. One night I went to bed and the temperature was about 50 degrees. The next morning when I woke up it felt quite cold. I raised the blinds and to my surprise and indeed shock I found that there was about three feet of snow that had fallen overnight! People were out with their snow plows and putting on snow tires on their cars. I did not expect that but the thing about Iowa is that once the snow falls it becomes "solid dry snow" and it stays and stays and stays through most of the Winter and it does not thaw out as in other warmer places.

Peter1469
01-19-2016, 05:19 PM
I hit black ice on I-81 heading to Fort Drum at 0 dark 30 and really spun around. Luckily I didn't hit anything.

TrueBlue
01-19-2016, 05:35 PM
I hit black ice on I-81 heading to Fort Drum at 0 dark 30 and really spun around. Luckily I didn't hit anything.
Yes, thank God you didn't, Peter.

Cigar
01-19-2016, 08:18 PM
Sad Ending ... One Fatality

exotix
01-19-2016, 08:19 PM
*Breaking*

http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_03/1382581/160119-ben-carson-campaign-van_c0f5ce1165b6f7b179d56fade2b2b59f.nbcnews-fp-1200-800.jpeg

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Cigar
01-19-2016, 08:21 PM
Wow ...

Peter1469
01-19-2016, 08:27 PM
that is a bad crash

TrueBlue
01-19-2016, 08:38 PM
*Breaking*

http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_03/1382581/160119-ben-carson-campaign-van_c0f5ce1165b6f7b179d56fade2b2b59f.nbcnews-fp-1200-800.jpeg

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My gosh! That hardly looks like just a common accident. Looks almost like something exploded from within. Wonder what the investigation will find?

Cigar
01-19-2016, 08:40 PM
My gosh! That hardly looks like just a common accident. Looks almost like something exploded from within. Wonder what the investigation will find?

IT got hit by oncoming traffic after it flipped

leekohler2
01-20-2016, 02:06 AM
IT got hit by oncoming traffic after it flipped

Oh man, that is terrible. So sad that one of them died.

Tricia
01-20-2016, 03:12 AM
Bad wreck. Lucky the others came out OK. Sad for the young man that passed. :(