A Letter To The Editor

Joe,

 

Yesterday afternoon on my way home from work, I received a call that my uncle, who works with me, had overturned his vehicle on Route 54 in Delaware. Thankfully my uncle was unhurt in the wreck. As soon as I got the call I headed towards where the accident was. Upon arrival I expected to see the police and fire company to be there. But to my amazement they were not. Fortunately a few other drivers had stopped to check on my uncle and were also directing traffic. I do not know these peoples names but I would like to thank those people for their help. So after I checked on my uncle and made sure he was ok, I also helped direct traffic while waiting for emergency personnel to show up. Amazingly we had to call 911 back to see if they were on their way. the response we got was that the police were very busy, nothing about the fire department was mentioned. Finally, about an hour after the accident, DELDOT showed up to help direct traffic. However it was about 80-90 minutes after the accident that a Delaware State trooper showed up. The fire department never showed. When the officer came over to ask my uncle questions, instead of asking how he was, the officer demanded to know who me, my father, and another coworker were and why we were still at the scene. This seemed like an absurd question because we were directing traffic until someone showed up. The officer then began talking to my uncle about the accident. Understandably, my uncle questioned the officer as to why it took an hour and a half for someone to show up and why the fire department wasn't there. My uncle also mentioned that he was lucky he wasn't seriously hurt because he would have bled out by the time someone got there. After my uncle said this, the officer became somewhat irate and told him that if he had a problem with how long it took, my uncle could contact command and complain. He then very arrogantly said he didn't appreciate the questions that were being asked of him and didn't like my uncle's tone. Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't anyone be irate after they had just flipped their vehicle and it took emergency responders that long to respond?????? Anyways the accident scene was cleared and we were waiting on the officer to hand back the insurance information when he decided to write my uncle a ticket for driving unsafely. The crazy thing is that he was driving the speed limit....Well my uncle then asked the officer even if he was half dead in the hospital would he write him a ticket to which the officer responded yes....This blows me away considering some officers let politicians and their friends drive off without a DUI. So needless to say I am very disappointed and angry at the Delaware State Police.

   

On another note, some completely arrogant jerk decided that when we had traffic stopped that he was better than everyone else and he deserved to pass everyone in line and try to go by the accident. As soon as I saw him I told him to stop and wait a minute. This is what the DELDOT employee told us to do while he was moving his truck. When I waved this guy on after a couple minutes he threw his hands up in disgust. He then stopped next to me and tell me that we were causing a bottleneck and he also began yelling profanities at me and my father and also insults about my weight. So after just seeing how close my uncle had came to dying I lost my temper and responded to him to step out of his truck if he had a problem. The spineless coward then drove off with nothing to say. I hope he reads this and realizes what a non-caring pompous jerk he was. Thanks for letting me rant.

 

-An astonished family member