Leave it to Lubbock to prove that you don’t even need other cars on the road to cause a catastrophe. Around 4:15 a.m. last Friday, May 22, while normal cities were sleeping, the Texas Tech Police Department and the Lubbock PD Major Crash Investigation Unit were dragged out to the 1300 block of Texas Tech Parkway. The emergency? A single-vehicle wreck that somehow resulted in a fatality.
According to the cops, officers arrived at the scene near 13th Street to find one male occupant who was already pronounced deceased. No other vehicles were involved. Just one car, a flat stretch of pavement, and the open West Texas night. It takes a truly special kind of Hub City driving magic to lose a fight against a road that has literally zero obstacles on it.
Naturally, details are incredibly sparse because officials claim this is an “ongoing investigation.” That’s standard police-speak for “we’re still scratching our heads trying to figure out how someone managed to completely destroy a vehicle in total solitude.” Tech police and LPD are currently analyzing the scene, presumably trying to determine if the driver was blindsided by a rogue tumbleweed or perhaps a particularly aggressive curb.
But hey, why bother practicing safe driving habits when you can just test the structural integrity of your bumper against the wide-open horizon at four in the morning?
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