As I mentioned up thread in post #7 the passenger bags I am familiar with are about the size of a 33 gallon trash bag. Tape a trash bag to the dash of your car, and you will see it is pretty much impossible for anyone who is sitting up to be covered by the bag.
My vote is there was some serious debris and that obscured the woman.
I’ve seen wrecked cars that were so crunched and compacted you couldn’t tell what might be in them without taking them apart piece by piece. I can see where a small person wearing clothes similar in color to the car’s interior could be overlooked. And she might have been crunched up too.
The article I initially read said the cops called the tow yard and asked them to look and see if there was “anything unusual” and the employee said he saw a body inside. So it doesn’t sound like she was crunched up under debris or that the guy had to take the car apart piece by piece to see her.
An “emergency medical captain” is supposed to be dispatched to the scene when there are people who may be trapped in a crash, but in this case that didn’t happen. A half-dozen additional rescuers were turned away by firefighters at the scene, they arrived because they were specialists in extracting people from both car wrecks and rubble (they were originally dispatched because the car hit the side of a building and caused structural damage). They were sent away because the wreck wasn’t as bad as they thought. So if the car wasn’t all seriously mashed up, and the tow yard guy found her easy enough…
Poor bastard, that’ll give him nightmares for awhile, I’m sure.
I was commenting more to the point of “we weren’t there”. We have no pictures of the car, no idea what was going on around the scene…nothing. So to take the first people whom you call when in trouble to task so hard with such scant details (when they themselves are silenced), is, imho, reprehensible.
Morbid humour- Definitely.
There’s a picutre of the car at the scene here. Not gorey, don’t worry.
