Even seasoned emergency personnel were taken aback at the scene in front of them as they arrived at a major traffic accident early Monday afternoon.
“I was thinking: Oh, good Lord, please help us,” said Jason Wiley, the first Lamesa firefighter to arrive at the site about seven miles north of Lamesa on Highway 87.
Scattered in front of him were no less than seven heavily-damaged vehicles.
Out in a field on the west side of Highway 87, people were gathered around a tractor-trailer rig laying on its side.
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