A man weakly crying "help" outside. Not a single person had heard his car crash into the tree in our yard, or heard the tree fall on him (something else disturbing I learned later: if it had fallen in the other direction I could have died). I was pretty young at the time so at first I thought it was a crazy person yelling "hail" and I thought it couldn't possibly be hailing. Then I thought he was crying "hell" and was some satanist doing a crazy ritual. Finally I realized he was calling for help and I went and woke my parents.
My parents went out to investigated then called rescue services, which were out there for several hours. I wasn't allowed to go out and it was too dark really to see from my window. But my parents later told me the engine had been pushed back into the driver seat, crushing at least one of his legs. He was eventually freed and air lifted out. Never really found out what happened to him.
A man weakly crying "help" outside. Not a single person had heard his car crash into the tree in our yard, or heard the tree fall on him (something else disturbing I learned later: if it had fallen in the other direction I could have died). I was pretty young at the time so at first I thought it was a crazy person yelling "hail" and I thought it couldn't possibly be hailing. Then I thought he was crying "hell" and was some satanist doing a crazy ritual. Finally I realized he was calling for help and I went and woke my parents.
My parents went out to investigated then called rescue services, which were out there for several hours. I wasn't allowed to go out and it was too dark really to see from my window. But my parents later told me the engine had been pushed back into the driver seat, crushing at least one of his legs. He was eventually freed and air lifted out. Never really found out what happened to him.