Nope. Young (30ish) White driver, newer Dodge truck. Spaced out from drugs or alcohol plus the accident. The victim was a 69 year old White guy, a mason with a load of tools and bags of cement in the truck bed. That stuff slammed into the front of the truckbed and back of the cab. Blew out the back window. A level was sticking out of the back seat. The old guy is lucky that crap didn't hit him in the back of the head - saved by the crew cab. Good tjing no one was sitting back there.
Oddly, one of the EMTs in one of the ambulances looked like a dark skinned Mexican ... unusual to see in this area.
He carries that stuff and doesn't have a headache rack?? That's dumb.
True, no headache rack. I don't think a lot of folks think about headache racks as protection from what's in the bed. More like something to mount lights on or carry a canoe with. Cool looking cosmetic too.
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