Just hours after getting married, man struck and killed by a car while trying to help a stranded dri
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[quote](CNN) -- A bride is in mourning.
Hours after the wedding, groom William Riley Knight, 49, of Crown Point, Indiana, was run over and killed.
His new wife was not injured.
They had just left their reception, according to Patti Van Til, a spokeswoman with the Lake County, Indiana, Sheriff's Department.
[B]"She was still in her wedding dress," she said.[/B]
Knight was acting as a good Samaritan on Saturday night when he stopped to assist Linda Darlington, whose vehicle had slid into a ditch along a road in Crown Point. He climbed out to help while his wife waited in the car.
He and Darlington, 42, were struck multiple times as they stood by the side of the road. She was also killed.
According to CNN affiliate WBBM, which spoke to Knight's ex-wife, he had four children, including two stepchildren.
He acted in community theater, was a hunter and reportedly served in the U.S. Army Rangers before retiring in the mid-1990s.[/quote]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/15/us/indiana-groom-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2[/url]
My god, that's so tragic
To lose someone like that on the happiest day of your life, I can't even imagine it
It's sad that the assisted also died too.
Some of the comments on that page are disgusting.
[editline]16th December 2013[/editline]
According to the comments another news site says he was pulled into a driveway next to the ditch the women was in.
How the fuck were they struck [I]three times in a row?[/I]
Once I can understand, but [I]three[/I] times?
Christ, talk about unlucky.
[QUOTE=Last or First;43202757]How the fuck were they struck [I]three times in a row?[/I]
Once I can understand, but [I]three[/I] times?
Christ, talk about unlucky.[/QUOTE]
For one thing, it was night so once they were on the ground, they may not have been seen by other vehicles.
Plus it depends on how fast the vehicles were going and how clustered they were. At times, you can't see the road all that well in front of you until it you start seeing the bumper of the vehicle ahead of you.
Jesus. I can't imagine how sad everyone must be right now.
I legitimately want to cry. That's fucking awful.
And her mind is now shattered.
Seriously, thats a major mindfuck.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43202817]For one thing, it was night so once they were on the ground, they may not have been seen by other vehicles.
Plus it depends on how fast the vehicles were going and how clustered they were. At times, you can't see the road all that well in front of you until it you start seeing the bumper of the vehicle ahead of you.[/QUOTE]
Cosidering the woman just slid her car down the ditch, it's not a stretch to assume the conditions were far from ideal, road probably slippery, visibility probably bad.
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