Randy Blythe angrily questions driver who almost killed him
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Scott Wise
Posted at 9:29 AM, Jul 12, 2016
and last updated2016-07-12 10:32:39-04
FOSS, Oklahoma — Richmond musician and Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe took to Instagram this week to chide a driver who he said nearly killed him in a weekend crash. According to his series of social media posts, Blythe was driving in Oklahoma when a speeding truck crashed into his caravan on a two-lane highway.
“Listen to me, little girl: this is what you almost died in yesterday. This is what you almost killed me, my 2 friends, our dog, & another driver with. This is what you almost killed your 3 friends with. This is what you almost killed YOURSELF with,” Blythe posted Monday. “I sat parked on the side of the two-lane country road & I watched as you plowed into our chase vehicle’s trailer- I saw your truck hit it & fly into the air. Like a slow-motion horror movie scene, you sprouted deadly wings & flew high into the air towards us before crashing onto the road a few feet away. You had hit another truck before you even crashed into our trailer.”
Blythe, who is driving Route 66 with photographer Rob Fenn as part of a movie project called “You Me And A ’63,” said they heard screams and ran toward the crashed vehicle.
“As we ran to the truck a person climbed out of the passenger side window, then another, then another, then another & you all flopped onto the road, filthy & covered in blood. It was a real-life horror movie- I prayed as I moved towards you,” he wrote. “You, the driver, kept yelling ‘My brakes went out, my brakes went out’- this is bulls**t. The skid marks tell us a different story.”
“I talked to the cops & the other driver you hit – you were going fast. Way too fast,” Blythe wrote. “You are 24 years old – this is not a game. You are old enough to know better, & your lack of attention almost killed us all on a sunny afternoon in the Oklahoma countryside.”
While Blythe said he was relieved no one was killed, he had many questions for the driver.
“I don’t know why you hit us, but it sure as hell wasn’t just your brakes going out. You were hauling ass,” he wrote. “Were you drunk? Were you high? Were you looking at your cell phone? Were you just not paying attention? Let me tell you something, oh-little-girl-who-almost-killed-us, & pay good f***ing attention to me now, because you OWE US that much – I have done ALL of those things. I was just like you once, careless & irresponsible, & I am so lucky I never wrecked- UNBELIEVABLY LUCKY. My luck ran strong, but I changed my ways before it RAN OUT. You were lucky today, too – you are alive, & so are we. You almost died yesterday, & you almost killed us, too. So pay attention to what I am trying to tell you- PAY ATTENTION TO ME, LITTLE GIRL. Do you understand what I am trying to say to you? You got a second chance, just like I did- I suggest you take it.”
Police have not yet provided an update on the people who were injured in the crash and what, if any, charges the driver might face.
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