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It was about 2pm Friday, July 21on I40 in Memphis. I was taking the "scenic route" from Dallas to Chicago, swinging by Memphis just to say I went into Tennessee. Immediately took the bridge over the Mississippi back to Arkansas.

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Five miles into Arkansas, I turned northbound to I55 - clearly out of the Greater Memphis area, but traffic was gridlocked in the country. It slowly dawned that there had to be an accident - and it was bad.


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The nicest way I can put it is I hope the trucker was pulled out immediately after the crash. The cab and trailer were so burned nobody could have survived.

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Sadly, here in Memphis, when the local news comes on with a "Breaking News Alert", we pretty much know either somebody got shot or there is a bad wreck on the interstate that is backing up traffic for miles. Seems like one or the other happens at least 2-3 times a week!

NOT trying to be funny about any bad wreck, but this morning Dallas had a lot of them.

One of them was a crash-and-burn in Mesquite, Texas (not kidding).

Love the title and the Mesquite reference. The blacker the humor the more you know it really hurts, I say.