Personally Delivered to LMF Personnel Department on 06/02/97

Interesting side note. I had been on the phone with Aetna that morning regarding this release and explained to them my strong objections and insistance that they maintained my family's right to medical privacy. When I decided later that day to go directly to the prison rather than handle the issue by mail, the Warden snatched the logbook from the Information Desk in an effort to keep the fact I had stopped by there off the record. Brian Rushford was the information desk officer on duty that afternoon and sometimes still is. Brian can be reached by dialing 1-906-387-5000 between 8am and 4 pm weekdays. I'm sure he still remembers our discussion over policy and procedure regarding the missing logbook. You could always ask.

Later that same day in the MGH Emergency Room

Aftermath of June 2nd, 1997

Our 1994 Ford Taurus after it's second hit-from-behind accident in 18 months. Totalled out this time, haven't seen her since. This shot doesn't do the actual damages both front and rear justice. We were stopped at a red light on Washington Street in Marquette. The posted speed is 25 mph. We were hit from behind by a woman driving a full size Ford van. She said she had bought a pop for daughter that had started to spill, she was reaching to grab it and didn't see the light or the three vehicles stopped for it. My family was in the 1st vehicle struck by the van, which drove our car into the next and so on like billiard balls. The car in the front was knocked halfway across the intersection. The impact was so severe that it broke my headrest. Everyone in the stopped vehicles were taken to the E.R. and treated for whiplash and or back injuries. The driver of the van was not seriously injured as at the time of actual impact she was safely behind her airbag. She did report having a "headache".

Attempted T-Bone Father's Day 1998

This accident occured as I was turning off into my own driveway, Father's Day, June 1998. My oldest boy had called for a ride home and we were returning home after picking him up. Two teenagers in a Ford Taurus driving with lights off attempted to pass as I was making a left turn into my own driveway. The impact tore the right front wheel off the Taurus which skidded nearly one hundred yards down the road before coming to a stop. The posted speed is 45 mph. Had I not seen the reflection from my brake lights and turn signal reflecting off the oncoming vehicle and made a hard right to try to avoid the collision, I would have been T-boned into the driver's door and have likely been killed. Because of the hard cut to the right, my left front wheel was impacted by the right front of the Taurus as it sideswiped the Fiero and launching it into the ditch almost one hundred feet from impact. The only serioous injury was to the passenger in the Taurus. His finger was broken because he placed his hands on the dash over the air bag in preparation for the anticipated impact.