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Wayne and Dianne Guay, whose bodies and car were found on Monday after being missing for days during what should have been a half-day trip from South Carolina to Queens, died from drowning. The determination of death now raises questions about how authorities handled reacting to a 911 call from a motorist who noticed a car accident off a North Carolina stretch of 1-95 last Thursday. Authorities say that the caller misidentified where the accident occurred by a mile or two, so when the firefighters and EMS went to the scene, they didn't see anything and left after looking for 22 minutes.
An emergency services director, Brian Brantley, said, "We're certainly sorry this happened," and admitted that the 911 caller should have been called back for more information. While it's unclear if the Guays could have been saved (the North Carolina Highway Patrol said the Guays' car could have submerged in minutes), their relatives were upset, especially since they had made public appeals for information and help - and that it took many days to find the car. From the Daily News:
"We really did everything we could," said Horry County, S.C., Deputy Police Chief David Beaty, adding that his agency first alerted cops in the region late Thursday.The Guays had lived in the city but moved to South Carolina after retiring from city agencies; their children still live in Queens.Beaty wouldn't say why it took several days for his agency to ask the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to use a helicopter as part of the search.
"I'm not going to get into it with the family," he said. "What purpose would that serve?"
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i see law enforcement works hard down south. gps needs to become standard in all cars.
Wel'll protest until somebody has resigned and we'll get the multimillion dollar settlement. eh, they were white? ok, who cares about them.
I don't understand why the people who reported the accident didn't stop and correctly identify how and where the car went over? And then report that the accident was two miles from the spot? Geez. That's mighty neighbourly of them.
The mountain roads in N.C. can be curvy and treacherous. When I was a kid, my family was driving through the Smokey Mountains, and I had just gulped down a Faygo Red Pop. Unfortunately for me, the Faygo, along with the winding roads and my dad's driving, made me ill. Even more unfortunately, I was holding my cousin's birthday cake in my lap and... well, you can imagine what happened. The roads would make the Taconic feel like a 4 lane highway. Some of the roads have little or no room to pull over to the side, but if I saw a car go off the road, I would at least stop and identify the correct place where it went off.
I guess the other lesson to learn is don't call 911 in N.C.
somebody say Faygo?
It's an easy drive up I95 from NC to NYC.
May be dark in many areas but if you've done it before it should be no problem.
If some of you think the NYPD are underpaid, you should see what these guys get.
I never make the trip all at once, I take a four hour nap at a truck stop in VA. What should be an eight hour drive takes me twelve.
Yes, I said Faygo. I also (finally) noticed that this happened on I-95. To me, that makes the car who didn't stop a bit more assholey than before.
wow. faygo red pop. crazy.
um... doesn't that damn NC have thermal imaging in the state police helicopters?
""I'm not going to get into it with the family," he said. "What purpose would that serve?""
I think the family might think there was a purpose.
The 911 caller didn't see the car go off the road - he saw the car floating in the swamp afterwards. Are you seriously suggesting that he should stop his car, backup for 1/2 mile (cause he was going highway speeds), get out of his car and walk however far over to the swampy area to check it out?
Geez, the guy didn't have to even make the call that he made. When is the last time you investigated a something weird on foot?