Driving around at midnight with headlights off will get you stopped. It was the drivers decision not to stop and to drive away at a high rate of speed. He made the conscious decision that resulted in his friends death. Yes, it’s sad but tragic things can happen when you make the decision to break the law.
It is always a journalistic shortcoming to publish a news story that mentions “addresses” and does not include an inset road map of the addresses mentioned in story. In this case, the description contained in the story about the location of the fatal crash is as follows:
“The Jeep struck a curb on Lost Creek Drive, and plowed through the intersection of the Chestnut Hill Plantation country club – taking out several street signs, a fire hydrant and several bushes. Flipping end over end, the vehicle crashed into a pond next to the clubhouse and was submerged.”
There is no such thing “the intersection of the Chestnut Hill Plantation County Club”. Just for starters. Maybe this meant “the intersection of Lost Creek Drive and the entrance driveway to the Chestnut Hill Plantation clubhouse.” Or perhaps “the intersection of Lost Creek Drive and the entrance road to the Chestnut Hill Plantation real estate development.” Further, from the aerial maps provided on Google Maps, I cannot find the “clubhouse” that is located “next to” the pond where accident happened.
This is not nit-picking. I am simply pointing out that unless a reader actually lived in the Chestnut Hill Plantation community, there would be no way to understand where or how the accident actually happened.
Okay. Okay. Maybe it is nit-picking. LOL. But an ACCURATE description of the site of the accident would have been as follows:
“The Jeep flipped end over end and crashed into a pond at the intersection of Lost Creek Drive and Boat Ramp Road, which is the entrance road to the clubhouse at Chestnut Hill Plantation clubhouse.” Further, the Jeep did NOT land in the pond “near the clubhouse”. It landed in a pond located “at the intersection of Lost Creek Drive and Boat Ramp Road.” End of picking. And grinning.
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Driving around at midnight with headlights off will get you stopped. It was the drivers decision not to stop and to drive away at a high rate of speed. He made the conscious decision that resulted in his friends death. Yes, it’s sad but tragic things can happen when you make the decision to break the law.
It is always a journalistic shortcoming to publish a news story that mentions “addresses” and does not include an inset road map of the addresses mentioned in story. In this case, the description contained in the story about the location of the fatal crash is as follows:
“The Jeep struck a curb on Lost Creek Drive, and plowed through the intersection of the Chestnut Hill Plantation country club – taking out several street signs, a fire hydrant and several bushes. Flipping end over end, the vehicle crashed into a pond next to the clubhouse and was submerged.”
There is no such thing “the intersection of the Chestnut Hill Plantation County Club”. Just for starters. Maybe this meant “the intersection of Lost Creek Drive and the entrance driveway to the Chestnut Hill Plantation clubhouse.” Or perhaps “the intersection of Lost Creek Drive and the entrance road to the Chestnut Hill Plantation real estate development.” Further, from the aerial maps provided on Google Maps, I cannot find the “clubhouse” that is located “next to” the pond where accident happened.
This is not nit-picking. I am simply pointing out that unless a reader actually lived in the Chestnut Hill Plantation community, there would be no way to understand where or how the accident actually happened.
Okay. Okay. Maybe it is nit-picking. LOL. But an ACCURATE description of the site of the accident would have been as follows:
“The Jeep flipped end over end and crashed into a pond at the intersection of Lost Creek Drive and Boat Ramp Road, which is the entrance road to the clubhouse at Chestnut Hill Plantation clubhouse.” Further, the Jeep did NOT land in the pond “near the clubhouse”. It landed in a pond located “at the intersection of Lost Creek Drive and Boat Ramp Road.” End of picking. And grinning.