I have read the articles written about officer Young and what the paper and other sources are reporting that happenend. For the most part they are correct but not completely. I watched the wreck happen and I feel like I need to fill in some missing but very important details. I was sitting in the left hand lane facing north on wood ave. I was waiting for traffic to pass to turn into the seven points shopping center. I heard before I saw a little black car race past me in the right hand lane heading north, also. As usual traffic was pretty active on Wood Ave so my first thought was "Idiot". About a couple of seconds later a second black car (these were Honda Civic or Ford Focus hatchback style cars w/ loud mufflers - think Fast and Furious type) passed in the right hand lane following the first car. They were switching lanes at high speeds moving around cars that were in their paths. Again, I thought where is a cop when you need one. At that very moment, Officer Young also passed me in the right hand lane and was obviously in pursuit. He had his lights on and was traveling at an accelerated speed. Traffic coming South cleared and so I pulled in the parking lot closest to the road of the Seven Points Shopping Center. I was hoping to see him catching one of those drivers. Instead I found myself witnessing the most horrifing scene that will forever be in my memory. A gold colored SUV, now we know to be Mrs. Mackey, pulled onto Wood Ave from the pharmacy. Unfortunately she pulled between the speeding cars and Officer Young. I felt like I was watching a movie in slow motion. He had no time to break or even swerve. It appeared from my vantage point that he struck the SUV in the drivers side rear quarter panel and was thrown from the bike. The bike immediately burst into flames and cosequently so did the SUV. I'm writing this because I hope somebody who knows the drivers of the two black cars will tell them that while they did not personally take the life of this officer and forever impact the life of Mrs. Mackey and her family, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE!!! I realize they may have just been having some fun and never intended for something like this to happen, but fun when its irresponsible ALWAYS has consequences.
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