Suicide by MVA - really poor form

[Shannow]

Strange accident near here the other day, when a motorcyclist veered into the path of a semi, and was killed instantly....semi caught fire etc.

Turns out that the rider had murdered his housemate, and committed suicide via MVA.

I've known a lot of people who have suicided, know others who have found them, and others who have cleaned them up...

But to drag another, entirely innocent stranger into being a "participant" is lower than low.

 

[Cristobal]

Very true. It shows great selfishness. The earlier crime shows it too.

 

[dave1251]

Shannow we people can be a strange breed but he did kill another person so it would be safe assume that he was not in his right mind. Thankfully no one else was hurt because it seems this guy wanted to hurt more people.

 

[dparm]

This is common in the Chicago suburbs -- people jump in front of the commuter rail locomotives. Inconveniences 100,000 people in an instant.

 

[daves87rs]

Sad...

 

[bdcardinal]

We have a bridge here called Cold Springs that people jump off of. Every time someone jumps off the bridge it stops traffic and is a huge ordeal while they send the Sheriff down to pick up the body. Now that is in the ideal time that the person jumped without someone talking to them.

What makes it a pain is when they try to talk to person down. Traffic is snarled in both directions for hours inconviencing the entire South Santa Barbara County. One of my friends has been stuck in that numerous times and you can hear him yelling for the person to jump because he is late for work.

 

[NHGUY]

Makes one wonder how many fatalities werent really "accidents".How would anyone question a dead body AFTER the crash?

 

[Rick in PA]

Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
...you can hear him yelling for the person to jump because he is late for work.


and that, in my opinion, is sad.

 

[Mr Nice]

He saved the tax payers money by not having a trial.

 

[Donald]

Originally Posted By: Rick in PA
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
...you can hear him yelling for the person to jump because he is late for work.


and that, in my opinion, is sad.


Pathetic if you ask me.

 

[Pablo]

Yeah and the guycoward murderer here yesterday, blew-up/burned his house with his two small boys.....all dead. He had killed his wife last year.

 

[Astro14]

A related (and equally cowardly and despicable) practice is known here in the states as "Blue Suicide" in which our person desiring to end their life deliberately threatens a law enforcement officer with the hope of provoking a lethal response from the LEO...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_cop

And that LEO will forever carry the burden of having to use lethal force...

 

[crinkles]

I've been close to a similar story. Co worker was going out with this girl. Turns out, she had mental health issues. He left his girl, and she suicided by MVA too. Only, drove her car at 100 mph on the wrong side of the highway, straight into a family car, killing mother, father and 2 kids in the process too.

 

[Silk]

The very same thing happened to the brother of a woman I worked with 20 years ago - but he was in a car and killed. About 10 years ago a guy stopped his car on the motorway in Auckland and stepped out in front of a truck. A friend at the time was driving the truck behind the one that hit him - it was carnage and some very upset people at the scene. They found his daughter dead in the back of the car - I can understand him wanting to end his life over that, but it's really not nice to involve others into it as well.

 

[Shannow]

One of my uncles suffered a break-up from a mail order bride, and drove off a straight section of road at high speed into a ghost gum, making a horrible mess for those who attended...they reckon that probably 20-25% of single vehicle accidents with males could be suicide.

FIL used to be station master at various train stations, and was the man responsible for the clean-up crew after suicide in front of a train, and it left him pretty messed up on some issues...

Males tend to use very certain means to end their lives, and it tends to be horrific for those who attend.

Another uncle's widow was "relieved" (really bad words for the event), that when he decided to end it, he took his Driver's Licence (for identification), mobile phone (for location by the Police), and a length of rope out into the bush, rather than maybe having his son come home from school and find his dead father.

Best mate in high school was found after school by his 13 year old sister, an unforgiveable act.

 

[Silk]

As a yoof when we drove and rode around in all states, going down the motorway a mate used to point out a bridge on a curve - he reckoned he would just aim his car at the centre pillar when he wanted to end it all. One day we came home and heard that his best friend had died (OD)...and he'd taken off in the car very upset. We headed straight for the bridge, and then spent the rest of the night looking for him. As far as I know he's still alive...sometimes you just grow out of these things.