Tuesday evening around 6:30 p.m.—right when normal people are winding down or heading to dinner—the intersection of 55th Drive and Salem Avenue turned into the latest backdrop for Lubbock’s favorite extreme sport: ignoring physics. According to the Lubbock Police Department, 23-year-old Isaiah Wilson was flying west down 55th Drive at a “high rate of speed” when his vehicle encountered a deadly, unpredictable structural anomaly known to locals as a curb.
After striking the curb, the vehicle apparently attempted to navigate a nearby curve by rolling multiple times instead of, you know, steering. The driver was ejected from the vehicle during the airborne gymnastics routine and later died from his injuries at University Medical Center.
To the surprise of absolutely no one who has ever driven down Slide Road on a weekend, LPD investigators noted that both speed and alcohol are suspected factors in the crash. Because if there are two things Hub City drivers love combining more than lifted trucks and bad parking jobs, it’s high velocity and adult beverages.
We just posted the chaotic initial details of this very wreck when it first broke, but now that the police have officially filled in the blanks, it’s exactly the predictable disaster we all assumed it was. At this point, maybe the city should just line our streets with giant pillows, or we could collectively try using that pedal on the left every once in a while. But hey, why bother with minor inconveniences like brakes or sobriety when you have the immortal confidence of a West Texas motorist?
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