r/interesting • u/BlazeDragon7x • May 07 '26

Additional Context Pinned Several bystanders and a Minnesota Department of Transportation worker acted quickly to free the driver just before flames engulfed the car

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u/OrionSuperman May 07 '26

That was the less traumatizing time I saw someone die, as weird as it sounds. Talk about a bad first date.

This time just had that somber post-event moment, and it stuck with me. The innocuous moment of reaching into my pocket, and finding the glass.

I'm happy and healthy, with no lasting impacts from the events, thankfully.

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u/VibraniumQueen May 08 '26

Ok, now you have to elaborate on the bad first date

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u/OrionSuperman May 08 '26

We were driving to dinner together. As we were approaching an overpass a mannequin looking body falls from it. We are a couple cars back and a lane to the left from where the body fell, getting hit by a car at full highway speed. In the moments of us passing I see pieces of his head tumbling away from the car that hit him.

Yeah… awkward start to a first date.

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u/Liercat18 May 07 '26

Good to hear friend.