Sunday Reading
A monument man, a judge and a collision
Dan Barry with an epitaph for a man of monuments; Michael Brick profiles a judge; and check out this piece by Chris McKenna and Kristina Wells, Twist of Fate:
Forty tons of truck rammed the SUV into Hastings' car carrier, which dragged the Land Rover a short distance before dropping it.
McKiver's truck shot across the northbound lanes and smashed into another guardrail, leaving its trailer stretched sideways across the highway.
The first emergency call came in at 12:41 p.m.
Some drivers stopped to help. Others, maybe 15 to 20, steered around the wreckage and drove away. Dave Morris, a 42-year-old trucker from Vermont, got so disgusted that he parked his rig so no one else could drive past.
"Don't even look," someone said as he approached the Land Rover. Hastings brought over a blanket, and they pulled it over the mangled vehicle.
McKiver had been flung through his windshield and lay moaning on the roadway. "There was an accident," he told the first firefighter who got to him. He struggled to get up. His neck was broken.
A rabbi from Fort Lee, N.J., bent beside McKiver, held his hand and opened a Bible to read Psalm 23:
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want; In verdant pastures he gives me repose; Beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul."