Good afternoon scoopers. Just wanted to present this to you all and hopefully it will be helpful or worth something to some of you. Please read.
For those of you that live in Norman, if you have driven up Flood Ave from Robinson heading north you have likely noticed our waterline project on the east side of Robinson. On Wednesday, we were boring underneath Rock Creek Rd along Flood. While completing this bore, we had two workers standing in the median, locating our drill pipe. The traffic along Flood traveling north and south came to a halt and the left turn signals came on. A vehicle then turned east from flood towards Rock Creek Rd, and while doing so ran over two of our workers.
I was on Flood waiting to turn right onto Rock Creek Rd. As I ran out of my truck to assess the situation, a woman emerged from her car, clearly distraught from the event with her phone in her hand. I immediately run to my two guys who are laying on the pavement in their Class-2 Construction Vests. Both men clearly writhing in pain but luckily not severely injured. I look at the woman and say (maybe shout) "Let me guess, you were fvcking texting and driving?!?!?!?" She immediately bursts into tears and admits to being on her phone.
Police, Norman Fire and Paramedics quickly arrive on scene and assess our workers. They both ended up going to the hospital to be evaluated and were released with minimal injuries. The driver stayed on scene and ended up apologizing to the workers. She seemed like a very nice woman who just made a dumb mistake that many of us make daily- on our phones while driving.
What many people fail to realize is that this woman's life could have been flipped upside down had one of the workers been standing differently, fallen differently, etc. What ended up being a gigantic learning lesson could have ended in manslaughter. One of our guys that was struck by her car is going to be a father in two months. Had things gone differently, that baby could have never met her daddy.
Please, please, just put the phones down.
For those of you that live in Norman, if you have driven up Flood Ave from Robinson heading north you have likely noticed our waterline project on the east side of Robinson. On Wednesday, we were boring underneath Rock Creek Rd along Flood. While completing this bore, we had two workers standing in the median, locating our drill pipe. The traffic along Flood traveling north and south came to a halt and the left turn signals came on. A vehicle then turned east from flood towards Rock Creek Rd, and while doing so ran over two of our workers.
I was on Flood waiting to turn right onto Rock Creek Rd. As I ran out of my truck to assess the situation, a woman emerged from her car, clearly distraught from the event with her phone in her hand. I immediately run to my two guys who are laying on the pavement in their Class-2 Construction Vests. Both men clearly writhing in pain but luckily not severely injured. I look at the woman and say (maybe shout) "Let me guess, you were fvcking texting and driving?!?!?!?" She immediately bursts into tears and admits to being on her phone.
Police, Norman Fire and Paramedics quickly arrive on scene and assess our workers. They both ended up going to the hospital to be evaluated and were released with minimal injuries. The driver stayed on scene and ended up apologizing to the workers. She seemed like a very nice woman who just made a dumb mistake that many of us make daily- on our phones while driving.
What many people fail to realize is that this woman's life could have been flipped upside down had one of the workers been standing differently, fallen differently, etc. What ended up being a gigantic learning lesson could have ended in manslaughter. One of our guys that was struck by her car is going to be a father in two months. Had things gone differently, that baby could have never met her daddy.
Please, please, just put the phones down.
