Just What Michael Waltrip Doesn’t Need!
Just what is it about Michael Waltrip this year?
Just how many times has he been bashed over his pinhead with the stupid stick?
Michael Waltrip is charged with reckless driving and failure to report an accident after a crash on Molly’s Backbone Road in Catawba County.
The Highway Patrol says Waltrip was driving about 70 miles per hour in the 55 mile-per-hour zone when he went off the right side of the road in a curve around 1:50 a.m. Saturday. His car then traveled back across the pavement and off the left side of the roadway, sliding sideways and striking a utility pole as it overturned. The car then rolled over and came to a rest on its side.
While I’ve made it a point to toss a few satirical spears Mikey’s way since Daytona, his MWR team is well deserving, I’ve refrained from any personnel attacks.
I may have to reassess that position:
Troopers said a witness saw Waltrip crawl out of the vehicle and leave the scene. When a trooper went to his home around 2:30 a.m. no one was there, but when he went back at 8 p.m. he found Waltrip, who admitted he’d fallen asleep at the wheel.Waltrip, with scratches on his face and some deep cuts on his finger, spoke with Eyewitness News about the crash. He said he was on his way home to Sherill’s Ford from Charlotte.
“I was almost home. I relaxed a little bit and ran off the road,” he explained. “I woke up with gravel hitting the car and I tried to correct but it was too late.
“I had so many emotions when the car came to a stop. I was sad I wrecked. I was embarrassed I wrecked and thankful I wasn’t hurt.”
The seasoned driver says he instinctively got out of his car, and then decided to walk home because he often runs the route and was only a mile away.
Emphasis mine.
First of all a “seasoned” race driver would head for his pit stall not home (a minor quibble I know). And secondly, he wasn’t home when the trooper first arrived at 2am, and 40 minutes after the fact, to investigate the accident.
And to be fair, why the hell did it take 17 1/2 hours after the trooper’s first attempt before a return visit to the Waltrip home was made?
I smell a rat, or at the very least something omitted from the linked story.
“I hope this is a lesson to kids and adults that you have to be on your game when driving a vehicle,” Waltrip said.
A lesson lived is a lesson learned I guess. But I have to ask, shouldn’t the same adults and kids learn leaving the scene of an accident and making no effort to contact authorities for over 17 hours isn’t the correct way to handle the situation?
Mikey may have scrambled out of the wreckage mostly unhurt, surveyed the damage that was isolated to himself and his property and and quietly said to himself, “no harm no foul.”
If that’s the case he’s dead wrong. His professional reputation has taken serious hits this year. With this incident his personal reputation has fallen below the level it was 24 hours ago.
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If my suspicions are correct, I’m just glad he didn’t pull a Rob Moroso on someone.
Ya know J.D. I hadn’t given the possibility of alcoh9l being involved dispite the 18 hour gap where he had “disappeared.”
Then I read the statement of the witness:
“He was bleeding from his forehead and had some cuts on his fingers and arms,” she said. “I told him ‘You are really lucky you are alive. I didn’t think anybody was alive in there.’ We sort of talked for a minute or two, and I told him 911 was on the way, and he just turned around and started walking home.
I didn’t know what to say or what to do. He had a T-shirt and sweat pants and socks on, he might have taken his shoes off in the car, but I wasn’t sure. And he just turned around and started walking home in his socks.”
Color me suspicious, but that plus the 18 hour gap and with no breathilizer given has raised doubts in my mind. Then there is this:
Waltrip told The Observer that alcohol did not contribute to the accident.
“I didn’t go home to avoid anything,” he said. “I just went there trying to figure out what to do.”
A grown man walks a mile to get home in his sock feet, is unavailable for 18 hours then claims he had to think about what to do?
Something stinks.
Does MW belong to the same auto club as Ted Kennedy?
I’am not sure “rf” but I have a feeling you may be a member of the Don Imus School of Public Speaking.
You wait and see what some hungry reporter will turn up. Any bets on his story coming up lame. Michael ain’t smart enough to cover this up completely.