TxFrog1999
The Man Behind The Curtain
A good portion of 281 is, yes.
tragic death of Zach Muckleroy, big Frog supporter, TCU ex
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NewFrogFan
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How old were his children?
bp4tcu
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9 year old daughter and 12 year old son.
Thanks for the quiz big shot. This isn’t the thread.
NewFrogFan
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I could not find the info. Meanwhile you can Foxtrot Oscar, you POS. Say hello to the ignored crowd.
Diehard
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Wow! That's what I thought..... Just terrible.
Atom
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Ex college football star and two children killed in Thanksgiving crash
A former Texas college football star and his two children have been killed in a car crash while traveling to visit family for Thanksgiving.
jillianwest
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I knew Zach well also, and was very close to his entire family, but we lost touch over the years after he went to college. I was trying to remember which fraternity he was in, but I can't get anyone to confirm which frat he was in. I was thinking he was an SAE?
HornFrogger
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Yep. SAE
bp4tcu
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Correct. He was a year older than my brother but they were pretty tight through college. That’s how I got to know him, through my brother.
TopFrog
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Wrong-way driver in crash that killed Muckleroy family was intoxicated, Texas DPS says
Story by Lillie DavidsonThe wrong-way driver who struck and killed three members of a Fort Worth family in a November 2023 crash was drunk at the time, according to an updated report.
The driver, 25-year-old Marine 1st Lt. Connor McKim, had a blood alcohol content of .261 — more than three times the legal limit — according to the revised report from the Texas Department of Public Safety’s investigation.
McKim was also speeding at an estimated 83 mph in a 70 mph zone and headed north when his pickup truck veered into the southbound lanes of U.S. 281 in Blanco County, according to the report.
A DPS official told the Star-Telegram a few weeks after the crash that the preliminary investigation had not found any evidence that alcohol was involved in the accident.
Lauren and Zach Muckleroy and their two children were driving to a relative’s house to celebrate Thanksgiving when McKim’s Toyota Tacoma collided head-on with the family’s SUV, causing it to spin. A third car then struck the SUV, rolled and came to rest upright, according to the report.
Zach, a 44-year-old construction company CEO, and the couple’s two children, 12-year-old Judson and 9-year-old Lindsay, were all killed in the wreck. McKim also died.
Thousands of people showed up to University Christian Church, online, and on campus at Texas Christian University for the Muckleroys’ funeral in December 2023.
Family members wore purple, a nod to Zach and his family’s love for TCU, where he played as a walk-on for the 1998 team that upset USC in the Sun Bowl.
HornyWartyToad
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Makes that awful story make a little more sense- Thanks for the update.
This brings back a frightening memory for me. My wife and I and our then-infant son were on that road, heading to Port Aransas to spend Thanksgiving with friends. Driving her Sequoia. We'd stayed the night before in Kingsland to break up the drive, and were approaching Johnson City on 281.
Fairly heavy traffic both ways and I noticed a Suburban parked off the road on our side just ahead of us. Just then a yellow Jeep coming northbound straightened out a curve and was in our lane, about to hit us head-on. We were right behind the parked Suburban by this point.
I almost had to bail completely off the road on the right of the Suburban and into the pasture at 60 mph, but decided maybe I could swerve right and then back left and maybe not plow into the Suburban or overcorrect into the oncoming lane. God let me have that one, but I still don't really understand how.
I still love driving on 281 as opposed to I35 when I'm headed to South Texas or the Hill Country, but I am beyond cautious and alert now as a result.
ShreveFrog
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Why does it take more than a year for this fact to come out? I hope that doesn't/did not hinder the widow from getting all the punitive damages she could from the drunk's estate, if he had one. (I'm no legal eagle.)
HornyWartyToad
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My hunch is it was probably discovered much sooner by the local medical folks and just wasn't publicized. In a small county though, your county coroner is apt to be a Justice of the Peace with no medical training, so that may be a factor. No idea what process happened after the crash, but would expect there would have been blood collected for analysis.
The idea of, "no evidence that alcohol was involved," by DPS sure seems suspect, because even though the intoxicated driver was killed, it seems like there would've been some kind of signs visible to the responding officers- i.e., the smell. What they probably were saying by that statement is that the inside of the drunk driver's vehicle wasn't littered with empties- Which if he did his drinking at a bar, would be logical.
In context though, think of it in terms of: Small county, no locals involved, so likely no persistent media inquiries after the initial reporting of the crash.
As for the widow, maybe she just doesn't want to have to keep reliving that heartbreak, especially when the person primarily responsible is also gone. Pray for her continued healing.
Mean Purple
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I can see where a quick prayer after to thank God would be in order. I have had a similar situation. In the rain. I had to dodge someone coming across and somehow manage to correct after the car I was in went to spin. Full rotation and revovered. I pulled off at the next exit to compose myself. State Trooper pulled up to make sure I was ok. (he was behind us). Told me I did everything I should and credited me with what he said was one of the best recoveries he had seen. I didn't have the whereabouts of mind at that point to let him know I could never do that again even if I had training and practice. my hands shook for half an hour.
HornyWartyToad
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Sometimes there's just no other explanation than an angel on your shoulder.
