Brothers die in traffic crashes minutes apart
 

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) -- Sheriff's deputy Andy McDowell was forced to live a parent's worst nightmare twice in a matter of minutes.

After he was taken to the site where one of his two sons was killed in a car crash early Wednesday, McDowell was driven past another fatal accident. Only later did he learn that the fiery wreck took the life of his only other child.

"You take the most unimaginable hell that a parent could be told and double that," Warren County Deputy Coroner Dwayne Lawrence said.

Rory McDowell, 23, and Cory McDowell, 21, both died within a couple of miles from the home they shared with their father in southern Kentucky's rural Warren County.

Rory McDowell lost control of his pickup truck coming out of a curve and the vehicle struck a tree shortly before 1:30 a.m., authorities said. There was no visible sign of alcohol involved, sheriff's Capt. Brent Brown said Thursday.

The father told authorities he had been talking with Rory McDowell on a cell phone about the time of the crash, Brown said. He said that might have been a factor in the crash, as well as excessive speed on a narrow road. He had no further details.

About 15 minutes after the first crash, Cory McDowell's 1984 Porsche veered off another rural road, went into a spin, struck a tree and burst into flames, authorities said.

The crashes remained under investigation, police said.

Authorities said the father had always doted on his sons. "That's all he talked about was his boys," said sheriff's department Sgt. Tim Meyer. "He lived for his boys."

Warren County is about 110 miles southwest of Louisville.
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I cannot even begin to imagine this. Poor man.

in other news... the same news story gets posted on gfy hours apart.

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=549575

Omg that's awful.

damn treehuggers

when did you see this? i posted this a couple months ago...

don't tell me its a different story ??

That sucks bad

Man that sucks major ass.

It's on the front page of cnn right now.

I just looked it up, mine was a bit different

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=532101

brother dies on the way to his brothers funeral...

shitty fucking luck

yeah i remember that one

In a related story, Tom Hanks was sent to find the remaining brother who was air-dropped somewhere over Normandy.

There's a lady in my town whose two sons died within years of each other at the same intersection. In BOTH wrecks the passenger in the other car was the same person (different driver). Sometimes the most bizarre things happen. :(

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Oh man...that really sucks!

That sucks. May they rest in peace.

Oh my God, why did that happen to them?!

Man..talk about a bizarre coincidence

thats horrible never heard of anything like that happening before... :(

Damn... so sad :(

Thats so horrible!
Not a good way to spend the holiday season.. the poor father :(

bad driving skills are genetic? lol

I feel sorry for the parents. their christmas would be very miserable. :(

How unlucky can you be. That's horrible :(

so sad :(

That's so tragic... :(

I hope the ones they left behind could recover from this...

so tragic and sad :(

tradegy//how about kids in Africa?

that's just a fade, but we have a things that we can change.//

sad about brothers

Several years ago I read of a father and son who were killed on the same road, different intersections minutes apart, both within a mile of home :(

it's horrible and so sad...

How horribly tragic.