3 Crashes in front of my house!

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It was just after lunch and we were getting ready to leave. We would have left already, but I was making the kids search the house for a library video they seem to have misplaced (which we still haven't found). They were dumping the toyboxes and cleaning them back up when we heard the first crash. We ran out to see what happened. In front of our trailer park (and we're only the 2nd trailer in) is a busy highway. The speed limit goes from 55 down to 45 right in front of our park. Well, we don't know what happened, but in the middle of the road was a mustang which had been hit at both ends.. the rear and the front. The front bumper was torn off completely and it was on the side of the road, and the back window was smashed. There was another car on the far side of the road with it's front end smashed, and a van on our side of the road with it's front end smashed as well. A total of 5 people involved in this crash. A bunch of other cars had stopped and some pulled into our trailer park and helped the victims of the crash until emergency crews arrived. My family and I stayed and watched the whole thing until the tow trucks had come for the vehicles. It was a scary sight.. but also interesting in a way. We saw the firemen use the jaws of life to get the driver out of the van. They also got their hoses ready in case any of the vehicles caught on fire (the mustang and the van both were leaking gas). Thankfully there were no serious injuries in this crash. Once it was all cleared up we left to do our running around. We were gone for maybe 2 or 3 hours. When we tried to come back home our street was blocked off again, there'd been another accident. We had to take a 20 min detour to get to the other end of the road and there the cop let us through to get home. We then discovered that just up the road, not even a quarter mile, there'd been a second accident, very minor. But traffic had stopped due to that accident, and a tractor trailer coming along didn't realize the traffic had stopped, and he slammed right into a KIA which then slammed into a pick up truck. The KIA immediately burst into flames, killing the 2 people in that car. Nobody else was seriously injured. Some of my neighbors had been on the scene when it happened and are very shaken up because they'd seen it all and couldn't do anything to help. We also discovered that the 2nd and 3rd crashes happened only minutes after we'd left the house.. it's scary to think we could have been a part of them! The road was kept shut for many many hours afterwards. At like 5 or 6pm my oldest had gone outside for something and said all the emergency and news crews were still there.. and the accident had happened just before 2pm. Here is a news link to the accidents: http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/2-dead-after-third-accident-in-Elbridge/gUX1_JPdwkC0Gr7f1kS0TA.cspx Have you ever witnessed a very serious accident? Has there ever been multiple accidents right in front of your home?