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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 11:31:11 -0800
From: sven@BRADBURY.NRL.NAVY.MIL(Sven Heinicke)
Subject: File 5--Brendan Kehoe, the accident and me ((The Passenger))

Hello, I just caught up with all my CuD's after being away for a bit.
In case your wondering who I am, well, I am the person who was riding
in the car with Brendan Kehoe when the accident happened.  In the past
I have always hopped that I would be able to contribute something to
CuD and was never in the right place to do so, I was in the correct
place this time and I wish I was not.  Here is what happened as I
remember it though I am leaving out some details, I'm not sure what
his family would want to get out.  Put it in Cud if you wish, even if
you don't put it in, it still felt good to write it.  I'm not sure
what the From line to this message will say it is from (as my
computers where half configured before the accident and are still half
configured) but mail to me should go to sven@wells.nrl.navy.mil.


Brendan Kehoe flew into Philadelphia on the 30th, as far as I know, it
was strictly a social calling as he went to school at Widener
University just outside of Philadelphia (Where I met him).  I had
taken the train up from my job in D.C. on the same day to visit my
parents, my girlfriend, and I also knew the Brendan would be in town.
He had living accommodations with a friend but for some reason that
fell through, he called up my parents and asked if he could crash
there, my parents said fine.  He arrived late in the night and we
talked for a few hours and want to bed.  The next day we both realized
that we had nothing to do for New Years Eve, I was not going to see my
girlfriend until New Years day and he had no plans with other people
that day too.  So we choose to rent a movie.  We never made it to the
movie rental store.  We would of probably rented a musical anyway :-).

It all happened about one mile away from my parents house.  We where
talking in the car and I don't remember the talking ever stopping.
Things faded in on a broken windshield against the house, the front
end of the car was about half a meter into the house.  I unbuckled my
seatbelt and got out of the car, after a few moments of disbelief I
figured out what happened.  There was a lady there with a portable
phone whom told me she had already called the police.  I asked her how
long I've had been out, she said about 10 minutes.  She asked if I
knew somebody to call, I gave her my parents phone number and want
back in the car to check on Brendan.  There was blood coming out of
his ears; as I moved my hand up to wipe one of his ears I noticed that
there was blood on my hand.  Following where the blood was coming
from I found a large hole above my left eye.  I tried to talk to
Brendan but got no reply.  I started feeling dizzy, got out of the car
and sat down on the snow.  The flashing lights started arriving at
that time and I started seeing double.  My father showed up as the
Newtown Ambulance Squad arrived.  They put me on the board and took me
to a local hospital, St. Mary's.

In the Ambulance I could hear the radio, they had called a helicopter
to take Brendan to the UPenn hospital.  I got a broken collar bone,
got a good size hole in my head (though my skull is fine), parts of my
scalp are numb and I got this bothering pain in my side.  Though my
typing is a little slower and I get dizzy from time to time (I have
talked to my doctor about that) I'm back at work.  Brendan was/is
worse, though he is making a recovery faster then the doctors thought
he would.  I saw him last Saturday, Jan 8th, he was recognizing
people, able to hold some conversations, and is very restless.  Guess
his Irish blood does not want to keep still.

The local weekly paper _The Advance of Bucks County_ said that he ran
a stop sign.  Somebody in a four wheel drive then hit Brendans rented
car on the side.  It happened around noon and I hear the person in the
other car is no worse off then me.  My father waited at the accident
until Brendan was out of the car and the helicopter was away.  To get
him out of the car they had to remove the the roof.  Across from the
street from where the car was there is a corn field which, due to the
time of year, was barren.  So the helicopter was able to land in this
corn field, close to the accident.  Father told me that he would of
not been surprised to hear that he died before he made it to the
hospital.

Some final notes, we where both wearing seatbelts (like that helped a
lot) and nobody involved was drinking.

      Sven Heinicke

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