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sonjajadeUncle David was riding on Dixie Highway, a 5 lane road (turning lane in the middle) going about 55 mph (about 88 kmph), not sitting stationary at a light like I thought at first from my sister's description. There was a 4 door pick up truck, like THIS ONE on his right, and it turned right onto a side street. He was kind of riding at the back wheel, sort of like in its shadow. There was a kid at the side street wanting to turn left. He didn't see my uncle at all, so when the truck turned right, he went ahead to turn left. He wasn't going but maybe 10-15 coming off a complete stop, and my uncle locked his brakes and tried to angle the bike so he was skidding sideways, like his right leg would have been sidding on the pavement and the tires would have hit the car, but he coudln't maneuver it that quickly. The kid tried to speed up to get out of his way, my uncle clipped the back of the car and it flipped him backward off the bike, and as he spun backward, the back of his head hit the place where the front door and windshield meet, instantly killing him.
My mom told me how the police took his driver's license and found his ex girlfriend's address there, the police went to her house, then found out that she wasn't family and didn't give any details, so she then called my uncle Bobby, whom uncle David lived with for a while after he left the girlfriend, then Bobby called my mom and that's how we all got word of this. His body is at the Hardin county memorial hospital morgue while we try to find out about any arrangements he might have made, though my mom said he was an organ donor and had told her previously that he wanted to be cremated. The hospital couldnl't harvest any organs because of how long he was out at the accident scene without CPR and stuff, but they're looking into bone and skin donation, and right now she's hoping uncle Bobby will donate his body to University of Louisville hospital for medical research because that would eliminate having to make arrangements with a funeral home and crematorium.
It's all so sudden and everyone is shook up about it, even my husband, who didn't know David all that well, but knew what a great human being he was. My sister is still pretty upset over it, and my mom is angry. She has 4 brothers and 1 sister, and she told me over the phone if she had to lose one of her brothers why couldn't it have been Tony, who is a drug addict and a disability fraud and always doing something illegal and is a "waste of space". She's hurt right now, and I think she's just lashing out.
Anyway, I just wanted to share the details since my sister's message didn't seem to make much sense when I first read it and then posted it here. Hug your loved ones guys. Everything can change in the blink of an eye.
My mom told me how the police took his driver's license and found his ex girlfriend's address there, the police went to her house, then found out that she wasn't family and didn't give any details, so she then called my uncle Bobby, whom uncle David lived with for a while after he left the girlfriend, then Bobby called my mom and that's how we all got word of this. His body is at the Hardin county memorial hospital morgue while we try to find out about any arrangements he might have made, though my mom said he was an organ donor and had told her previously that he wanted to be cremated. The hospital couldnl't harvest any organs because of how long he was out at the accident scene without CPR and stuff, but they're looking into bone and skin donation, and right now she's hoping uncle Bobby will donate his body to University of Louisville hospital for medical research because that would eliminate having to make arrangements with a funeral home and crematorium.
It's all so sudden and everyone is shook up about it, even my husband, who didn't know David all that well, but knew what a great human being he was. My sister is still pretty upset over it, and my mom is angry. She has 4 brothers and 1 sister, and she told me over the phone if she had to lose one of her brothers why couldn't it have been Tony, who is a drug addict and a disability fraud and always doing something illegal and is a "waste of space". She's hurt right now, and I think she's just lashing out.
Anyway, I just wanted to share the details since my sister's message didn't seem to make much sense when I first read it and then posted it here. Hug your loved ones guys. Everything can change in the blink of an eye.
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