Bachelor 19 - Chris Soules - Discussion - #3

bleuberry wrote:^ it's in the dispatch audio in the link above. It sounded like the paramedics saw him drive/walk off?

Thank you. Glad to hear he didn't leave until the paramedics were there.
Saying a prayer for these families tonight.

Here here @GuardianAngel

Chris's life will never be the same again regardless what happened.
I really hope he will have a good support system to help him.

GA I am sure your fathers friend would have liked to have traded places with your father many times over.  

I am very sorry to hear this.   It is nice to see you have a forgiving soul.  

I am not sure if I was the victims family could forgive.  I know it time but it would take me a long time to do so.

I get how everyone's emotions are so high!

I also want to add that it isn't uncommon for people involved in hit and runs at night to not know what they hit and if it was an object or animal or whatever. Doesn't make it any better but worth considering. This morning I was all 'wow he left a man dying in a ditch.' But I can't imagine someone processing that in the moment and esp at night. At least I hope he didn't and still decide to leave.

bleuberry wrote:^ it's in the dispatch audio in the link above. It sounded like the paramedics saw him drive/walk off?

It could've been the original witnesses who called 911, who saw him leave the scene and reported that to the police once they showed up.

nikikass wrote:Here here @GuardianAngel

Chris's life will never be the same again regardless what happened.
I really hope he will have a good support system to help him.

GA I am sure your fathers friend would have liked to have traded places with your father many times over.  

I am very sorry to hear this.   It is nice to see you have a forgiving soul.  

I am not sure if I was the victims family could forgive.  I know it time but it would take me a long time to do so.

I get how everyone's emotions are so high!

and my mother, and the mans wife, and my dad's sisters, and me and my other sister wishing it was us instead of my 7 yr old sister seeing it all, and so on. It affects so many people. Not to mention the couple that got married, that they were at the wedding to begin with.

GuardianAngel wrote:

nikikass wrote:Here here @GuardianAngel

Chris's life will never be the same again regardless what happened.
I really hope he will have a good support system to help him.

GA I am sure your fathers friend would have liked to have traded places with your father many times over.  

I am very sorry to hear this.   It is nice to see you have a forgiving soul.  

I am not sure if I was the victims family could forgive.  I know it time but it would take me a long time to do so.

I get how everyone's emotions are so high!

and my mother, and the mans wife, and my dad's sisters, and me and my other sister wishing it was us instead of my 7 yr old sister seeing it all, and so on. It affects so many people. Not to mention the couple that got married, that they were at the wedding to begin with.

And sometimes this board can really bring you to your knees. What a story. You've faced trials, dear one. Trials that I'm sure have molded you into a strong woman. Thank you for sharing your story.

I have had this tragic situation on my mind all day. I am feeling so much empathy for everyone involved. So much devastation for the man killed and his anguished family too. Also so much pain in the Soules family. Chris made a terrible choice in leaving the accident scene after the responders arrived. Chris will have to answer for his decision. What I do know as fact is that Chris had a camera crew at his house to shoot a pictorial for a magazine on his home remodel/redecoration yesterday and Chris may of had liquor in the car to take home for a celebration at his house. So maybe that is why he was not charged with being under the influence. It may have been a drive home from the store. I am willing to grant him the benefit of the doubt. One thing I know is Chris will live with this situation for the rest of his life and that evening will never leave his thoughts.
As someone who has survived two severe (rollover/cars totaled) and what easily could have/should have been fatal car accidents neither of which I was at fault and one where the person who hit me in the 2nd accident was a criminal offense that resulted in a trial and jail time for the driver. I can honestly say that in the unreal moments that happen post accident one is clearly not in their right mind. This does not excuse Chris for leaving with a friend in their truck but it does give me awareness to empathize with his panic/shock and out of body/mind lack of clear thinking. Chris may very well have run to the try to help the tractor driver and even made the 911 call. I have no facts that tell the whole story as yet. All I know is he left the scene after the first responders arrived.
IMO Chris was well aware that he was going to be held accountable for his actions regarding the accident since his truck was left at the scene wrecked in a ditch and the first responders called in the dispatch when he left the scene in a friends vehicle. Why he left will be made evident in his trial.
My sincerest prayers are with the family who lost their husband, father, grandfather. God Bless them All. My prayers are also with the entire Soules family including Chris as they grieve the loss of a friend and face the future consequences of that accident and Chris's choices. None of their lives will ever be the same again. Sad all the way around IMO.
JMO

^^^
Amen

Such a tragedy. The lives of all involved has been changed forever. Praying for all involved especially the victim.

So sad for all involved. The families apparently did know each other.

http://www.eonline.com/news/845995/the-bachelor-s-chris-soules-arrested-after-deadly-crash-everything-we-know

GuardianAngel wrote:I have a different experience. My dad was killed by a drunk driver, he was a very good friend of my dad's. 40 some years ago. I was in my early teens. He lived on the same street we lived on.

For the next 40 some years, I watched that man dwindle to nothing. He never worked again, he was severely depressed, he wasn't able to communicate, developed all sorts of health problems, lived to mid 80's. Some say good, he deserved it, some feel compassion for someone who lived a miserable life and could never get over what he did.

I'm so sorry for you loss, GA.  Never easy to lose a parent regardless, but especially so young and suddenly.

All I have seen him being charged with is leaving the scene of an accident, not a DUI or the cause of the accident. I'm missing something