Lost Life - Part Ii

A man and woman walked up and we started talking, he had been the first one to the top to help the boy, telling me what had transpired, then went up the mountain a second time to give his report to the sheriff. His wife and I were talking when a small pickup with a camper came down the road towards us and stopped. Some people got out and came over to us, they needed help getting some things out of the boat and I realized they had been involved in the accident. One young girl, blanket wrapped and held tightly around her, shaking, had been in the pick up - a passenger, she smiled, but seemed yet to be in a state of shock. Talking for a few minutes then she and the others got into the truck and drove back up to the road where the driver of the pickup was apparently still in a state of shock. Officers and paramedics talking to him, trying to get him to respond; an ambulance came, no sirens, to pick up the boy and take him away in silence. A violent end to his life and no one seems to know why it happened, or even what his name had been. Sounds of a speeding vehicle, crashing noises, agonizing cries for help, then moments later, deathly silence. A tow truck and a flat bed came down to somehow extricate the boat from it's side on the mountain.