The hot line operator for the company owning the cement truck was on the phone with a driver calling to complain about the driver when she heard the crash and the caller said:
Call-taker Jina Wilkie said a man phoned C&J's driver hotline about 7 p.m. to complain about the erratic driving of one of the company's vehicles, saying it was frightening him.
"The caller was getting more and more panicky, screaming for me to get someone because the driver was going all over the road and off to the side," Wilkie told the Herald through tears.
"Then the man screamed, 'Oh my God, he's gone through a red light. He just T-boned someone. He's killed them.' " By that time Wilkie said she already knew there had been a crash because she heard a horrifying crunch through the phone -- indicating how close her caller was to the collision.
The story in the Herald today:
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...d244f8&k=71703
Retracing my own steps, it occurred to me yesterday I was sitting at that same stoplight, on my way into the south end of the city for a Christmas party, only 15-20 minutes before the crash.
There but for the Fickle Finger Of Fate go I.
Cowperson