13 Vehicle Accident Usually you think of multi-car wrecks happening in Austin or Houston or Dallas. A little known fact is there was a wreck that happened right in Marble Falls, Texas that involved 13 vehicles back in the spring of 1970. I was involved. It was my senior year and I only went to school in the mornings and worked at a local car dealership in the afternoon. This one afternoon things werent to busy at the car lot so I ran home and grabbed a small trailer mounted air compressor and headed to Kingsland to drill a few holes for dynamite in some rock where a guy was attempting to put in a septic system. When I got back to the street where most kids leaving school pulled out onto FM 1431 (there wasnt a red light, so cars would just make a run for it when there was an opening) my classmate Mary Alice pulled directly out in front of me. I was driving a 66 model El Camino. The front of the El Camino hit dead center on the drivers door of her car. I was going about 35 or 40 MPH but with the air compressor on behind, it knock her across the car. No one wore seat belts back then. It shoved the door about a quarter of the way across to the other side. The impact broke her pelvis and ruptured her spleen. The car continued to travel on across the road curving to the left and went right through the middle of the car lot. Yes the one I worked at. When her car came to a complete stop, it had came into contact with 11 other cars. Counting both of our cars made it 13 damaged vehicles. Mary Alice spent several weeks in the hospital but was able to walk across the stage (on crutches), to a standing ovation, to receive her diploma with the rest of us, the 1970 MFHS graduates.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:12:29 +0000
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