BREAKING Dwayne Haskins dies @ 24

[TideMan09]

I feel bad for all involved, Haskins & his family, I feel bad for the dump truck driver as well.

It's not as easy job driving a big ride in that kinda traffic & is hard keeping your head on a swivel trying too watch for all dangerous situations..

 

[AlexanderFan]

I feel bad for all involved, Haskins & his family, I feel bad for the dump truck driver as well.

It's not as easy job driving a big ride in that kinda traffic & is hard keeping your head on a swivel trying too watch for all dangerous situations..

At that weight the driver is just along for the ride in a circumstance like this. If the interstate is five lanes or more there’s not much he could do without killing more people. This is all assuming he saw Haskins to begin with. In that kind of traffic he would be all but invisible to someone scanning and looking far enough ahead to slow down a dump truck.

 

[TideMan09]

At that weight the driver is just along for the ride in a circumstance like this. If the interstate is five lanes or more there’s not much he could do without killing more people. This is all assuming he saw Haskins to begin with. In that kind of traffic he would be all but invisible to someone scanning and looking far enough ahead to slow down a dump truck.

Yup..And more times than not he's simply isn't going too have the room too slow down & have the split timing reaction needed too avoid the accident..

 

[Im_on_dsp]

Possibly contributing to it is the fact you don't really realize how little time you have to actually cross the road at interstate speeds. You think you have more time when in reality you don't. If your only experience is crossing a downtown street with stop lights and such you don't have any experience with vehicles going 75 to 80 mph. At that speed they are coming at you really fast and what may have looked like an opening in traffic really wasn't based on the sheer number of lanes, number of vehicles and speed. That's why they tell you never try to cross an interstate on foot. Call for help and wait in your car.

 

[crimsonaudio]

911 reports saying he was walking in a lane of the highway for at least six minutes before he was killed - sadly, it sounds like he was either on something or suicide (or perhaps both).

Man saw former Ohio State QB Dwayne Haskins walking on Florida highway before crash

The Florida Highway Patrol said Monday it will not release further information about the death of Dwayne Haskins until completing its investigation.

www.dispatch.com

 

[Guido]

911 reports saying he was walking in a lane of the highway for at least six minutes before he was killed - sadly, it sounds like he was either on something or suicide (or perhaps both).

Man saw former Ohio State QB Dwayne Haskins walking on Florida highway before crash

The Florida Highway Patrol said Monday it will not release further information about the death of Dwayne Haskins until completing its investigation.

www.dispatch.com

RIP Dwayne, i grew up in socal and i know this sounds like common sense but one thing you learn is that you never, never, NEVER, EVER, cross a freeway on foot. Trying to judge the speed of cars over 4 lanes just to get to the middle barrier and then 4 more on the other side, that's some tricky and dangerous business there.

 

[TideMan09]

Dang..Just read this article.. https://sports.yahoo.com/dwayne-haskins-wife-walking-gas-fatal-accident-911-call-203153577.html

 

[crimsonaudio]

Autopsy: Steelers QB Haskins was drunk when fatally struck

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was legally drunk and had taken drugs before he was fatally struck by a dump truck while walking on a Florida interstate highway last month, an autopsy report released Monday concluded.

apnews.com

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was legally drunk and had taken drugs before he was fatally struck by a dump truck while walking on a Florida interstate highway last month, an autopsy report released Monday concluded.

The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office said Haskins’ blood alcohol content was 0.20 when he was fatally struck on Interstate 595 near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport just before dawn on April 9. That’s 2.5 times the 0.08 legal limit for driving in the state.

According to the University of California, Davis, and other universities, someone of Haskins’ weight, 230 pounds (104 kilograms), would have needed at least 10 drinks in the hours before his death to reach that level. He also had the strong painkiller ketamine and its metabolite norketamine in his system. The drug can be prescribed by a doctor, but can also be abused recreationally. The report does not say why the former Ohio State University star had it in his system.

 

[CrimsonTheory]

I don't want to sound insensitive but sometimes you cannot fix stupid.

 

[Tidewater]

Autopsy: Steelers QB Haskins was drunk when fatally struck

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was legally drunk and had taken drugs before he was fatally struck by a dump truck while walking on a Florida interstate highway last month, an autopsy report released Monday concluded.

apnews.com

I'm really sorry to hear that.

 

[CB4]

I wonder if Haskins was being treated for a mental health condition? Oral ketamine is used sometimes in patients with PTSD or severe anxiety disorders. The IV formulation is generally used for chronic pain management. However in combination with alcohol, especially the amount reported in his system, it is a lethal combination. Haskins having a BAC at .20, along with the ketamine in his system, would indicate to me he had more issues that just binge drinking.

Our corporate office in south Florida. I’m in and out of PBI and Ft. Lauderdale airports all the time. I wouldn’t attempt to cross I-595 in broad daylight, in track shoes as a twenty year old, stone cold sober. The traffic and the motorists are ridiculous.

Looking at this situation in total, I’m not going to be surprised if it comes out that Haskins had a chronic pain/mental disorder for which he was being treated and a history of additional “self medicating” with alcohol.

 

[DogPatch]

Ketamine is more often used as a drug of choice for its hallucinogenic effects than in a clinical setting.

 

[Guido]

And he was with a woman of undisclosed identity, not his wife, I'm amazed this guy was able to play QB in the NFL with all he had going on.

 

[tmaxam99]

And he was with a woman of undisclosed identity, not his wife, I'm amazed this guy was able to play QB in the NFL with all he had going on.

He wasn't that good of a QB in the NFL He thought he was in his mind though..

 

[UntouchableCrew]

This seemed pretty obvious if you were reading between the lines but still a tragedy nonetheless.

 

[Guido]

Ketamine is more often used as a drug of choice for its hallucinogenic effects than in a clinical setting.

well then why is it legally produced?

 

[DogPatch]

well then why is it legally produced?

Because it's a legal drug. Have you never heard of a legal drug being abused for certain potential side effects?

 

[Tidewater]

He wasn't that good of a QB in the NFL He thought he was in his mind though..

I think his career can serve as a negative example for young men going pro.
He was okay at tOSU, but did not (yet) have NFL level talent.
When he got benched (after three pics in one game) he was obviously unhappy about it. The next week when he was listed as second string he "called in sick."
It just so happened that the starter in that game went down with an injury, Haskins was not available, and the 3rd string guy played hurt (and not very well, if memory serves).
Every athlete wants to play his position, but sometimes a team needs a player who will subordinate himself to the needs of the team, and on this occasion Haskins was not there for his team. You only get so many chances to make a good impression, and I think Coach Rivera decided that Sunday to trade Haskins in the off-season.

Maybe Haskins would have gone on to a solid NFL career. We'll never know now and I'm saddened by his death.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

This seemed pretty obvious if you were reading between the lines but still a tragedy nonetheless.

What's funny is this - I shouldn't have to "read between the lines." That's called "the media doing its job" and making sure I understand exactly what happened.

And if this had been Tim Tebow, we'd know every single detail along with the self-righteous "he presented himself as A, but here's B." Haskins, of course, was not (as far as I know) the outspoken devout that Tebow was, so that part is irrelevant.

But I shouldn't have to "connect the dots" in what actually happened in any tragedy, either. Once it became a news story, they had an obligation to report the news, not tiptoe around the edges of it.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Bizarre, new developments in this case. I hope if this is true, they nail those responsible to the proverbial wall.

Dwayne Haskins was targeted in blackmail/robbery