Dwayne Haskins Dead at 24

[cycloner29]

There have a few people in Ames that have jumped in front of the train that goes through town. One was a former coworkers husband.

I can relate as my dad committed suicide and I still wonder why to this day. The only solace is I found him and not my younger siblings. Something you will never forget.

 

[Acylum]

I saw Schefter's now deleted tweet. Holy crap what an insensitive thing to crap on a guy's career in a tweet about his passing.

He’s a world class POS.

 

[CloneGuy8]

There have a few people in Ames that have jumped in front of the train that goes through town. One was a former coworkers husband.

I can relate as my dad committed suicide and I still wonder why to this day. The only solace is I found him and not my younger siblings. Something you will never forget.

Sorry to hear that. My dad also did the same, but we were 'lucky' as the police were the ones that found him.

 

[ISUTex]

I thought for sure I was going to kill a guy my first time driving on 75 north of Dallas. It was practically bumper to bumper multi-lanes of traffic going about 75. I came over a hill and there is a guy walking - not running, not jogging - walking across multiple lanes of traffic. There were cars squeezing into lanes where there was barely enough room and cars going onto the shoulders. I don't know how he didn't get hit or cause a fatal accident but when I honked at him he just flipped me off.

I guess some people don't really care if they live or die.

This is not commentary on what happened to Haskins because we don't have enough information to know what happened.

75 North of Dallas is f#$%^ng crazy. I remember, about 15 years ago or so some crazy f### threw his girlfriend off of the Bush onto 75. I came up on it afterwards with slow moving traffic. Apparently her body exploded because a car hit her right before she hit the pavement.

 

[TXCyclones]

Some details released:

He was in South Florida for training with some of his teammates. Details are limited at this time, but here’s what Florida Highway Patrol has said so far:

▪ Haskins was walking on I-595 between the exits for I-95 North and I-95 South. The highway is eight lanes wide at that location — four eastbound and four westbound.

▪ Troopers don’t yet know why he was there.

▪ Haskins tried to cross the westbound lanes of I-595, where there was oncoming traffic.

▪ An oncoming dump truck hit him. The driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with authorities.

▪ Haskins died on the highway.

 

[2forISU]

Some details released:

He was in South Florida for training with some of his teammates. Details are limited at this time, but here’s what Florida Highway Patrol has said so far:

▪ Haskins was walking on I-595 between the exits for I-95 North and I-95 South. The highway is eight lanes wide at that location — four eastbound and four westbound.

▪ Troopers don’t yet know why he was there.

▪ Haskins tried to cross the westbound lanes of I-595, where there was oncoming traffic.

▪ An oncoming dump truck hit him. The driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with authorities.

▪ Haskins died on the highway.

Drive by this all the time, basically right next to the Ft. Lauderdale airport. Crossing 4 lanes in your car is darn near impossible, I can't even image crossing by foot.

 

[TitanClone]

I was in San Diego 4 or 5 years ago and a section of the interstate was closed because a guy was about to jump from an overpass. Luckily emergency responders got there before he did and they had this big blow up thing under the overpass that looked like one of those huge bags you see at summer camps on lakes where people jump on to launch the other person.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Apparently he ran out of gas and was trying to get some. There is a 911 call where his wife is talking to the dispatcher plus another woman that saw it happen.
Needless to say the call is pretty dramatic

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dwayne-haskins-wife-called-911-151811899.html

 

[cycfan1]

Apparently he ran out of gas and was trying to get some. There is a 911 call where his wife is talking to the dispatcher plus another woman that saw it happen.
Needless to say the call is pretty dramatic

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dwayne-haskins-wife-called-911-151811899.html

Yikes thats tough to listen too. Not sure how dispatch put that together so quickly (911 call from Pittsburgh and local?) - but thats a pretty heartbreaking way to find out.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Yikes thats tough to listen too. Not sure how dispatch put that together so quickly (911 call from Pittsburgh and local?) - but thats a pretty heartbreaking way to find out.

Yes, that had to be awful for his wife and the woman that witnessed it.

 

[BigJCy]

Per the Miami Herald:

Haskins died of blunt force trauma, and the death was ruled accidental, according to the autopsy report released by the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office. According to the toxicology report, Haskins’ two samples tested positive for alcohol, his blood at .20, another fluid level at .24. The legal limit in Florida is .08.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...#storylink=cpy

 

[MeowingCows]

Per the Miami Herald:

Haskins died of blunt force trauma, and the death was ruled accidental, according to the autopsy report released by the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office. According to the toxicology report, Haskins’ two samples tested positive for alcohol, his blood at .20, another fluid level at .24. The legal limit in Florida is .08.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...#storylink=cpy

And he was driving at this point...

 

[Stewo]

And he was driving at this point...

And he had OTC drugs in his system as well. I'm also sure his wife was stoked to have learned that he was with another female at the time.

 

[isucy86]

And he had OTC drugs in his system as well. I'm also sure his wife was stoked to have learned that he was with another female at the time.

Not sure his financial position- but now she gets 100% vs 50%. Assuming no pre-nup

 

[Farnsworth]

My father told me about several incidents of people arranging for themselves to be hit by trains over the years. Most of these were stories from other railroad veterans, but he had one first-hand experience with something like this. He noticed somebody on the tracks before him, and they threw on the brakes and stopped right before a disheveled, manic, and mentally-deranged man laying across a track. He said they had quite the awkward staring contest for a few moments before the man realized they came just short of hitting him. He then proceeded to rise and disappear into the nearby woods, and the police never found or identified him.

When I was in Australia we were heading to Sydney for the weekend on the train and we hit someone committing suicide. That was such a weird announcement when they told us about why we were stopped and it would be such a long delay. They seemed as if it was a semi-normal occurrence.

 

[BCClone]

I thought he walked out infront of someone. He was driving? And drunk? That makes it a different situation

 

[Rabbuk]

I thought he walked out infront of someone. He was driving? And drunk? That makes it a different situation

My understanding is he was driving drunk and ran out of gas and got hit as a pedestrian walking for gas on accident

 

[BCClone]

My understanding is he was driving drunk and ran out of gas and got hit as a pedestrian walking for gas on accident

That’s a whole lot to unpack in a situation.

 

[3TrueFans]

That’s a whole lot to unpack in a situation.

@Rabbuk just typed it out in one sentence.

 

[Rabbuk]

@Rabbuk just typed it out in one sentence.

The only thing I'm not sure about is how people are so sure he was driving if there was another woman involved.