High Speed Wrecks

(Some disturbing content)

*Names changed, RHB

High Speed Wrecks

I was parked at the Ashway Drive-in site one night, and a Mustang came from the direction of Asheville at a high rate of speed. Went through in front of me, and I pulled out and turned on my blue lights and siren. The guy ran - it was a ’65 Mustang I believe - and they ran up to the intersection of West Main and the Asheville Highway, went across the railroad tracks, and turned left on Irish Street. 

He went up there a little piece and lost it, turned upside down over a ditch. And, all I could see was elbows and arms and knees. The car was packed full of people, and I said, “Oh, no. Probably we’ve experienced a kill here.” 

But they all crawled out, come crawlin’ out and all of ‘em were well. One of them was a *Henson boy that I knew quite well. I said, “*Henson, why did you let that driver drive that crazy?” He said, well it was his car, he could drive the way he wants to. 

So, about, I don’t remember, two or three months - maybe more, maybe less - later a young couple was found dead off the road in a car wreck on the 11-E, down near Dead Man’s Curve. And one of them was the *Henson boy. And, they’d laid there for hours, they’d wrecked during the night. Apparently, the driver was going at a high rate of speed and killed both of ‘em.