Stan Black killed on I-55 today

[JoMo MoJo]

Helping a motorist who was putting some sheet rock back on his trailer after it blew off on interstate. Woman driving another car slams into them killing Stan instantly

ETA: at or near the Canton exit

 

[SirBarksalot]

Awful.
The shoulder of a highway is a dangerous place.

 

[DAWGS1.sixpack]

Terrible to hear and especially the way it happened.
Remember him well when I was kid, listening to Jack and going to games watching him play.

 

[The Fatboy]

Forgive my ignorance can you remind me who that is?

 

[Mayor of Little London]

Forgive my ignorance can you remind me who that is?

All sec/ all American safety for the dawgs in early 70’s.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Former football player

played back in the early to mid 70's

From my recollection, primarily played safety.

Very hard nose, standout player.

 

[dawgoneyall]

How can a person drive say a 100 miles then see a vehicle on the side of the road and then go apeshit crazy or blind as a bat.

 

[BELdog]

How can a person drive say a 100 miles then see a vehicle on the side of the road and then go apeshit crazy or blind as a bat.

Have you ever driven before? Blind spots, blind curves, dangerous shoulders and off ramps all exist. It’s just life. Accidents happen. The driver may have been on her phone. She may have been eating a sandwich and dropped something on her shirt. She may have been drunk. She may have had a dog in the car that distracted her for a second. There are a ton of reasons why this may have happened. None of them are any consolation to Stan Black’s family.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

How can a person drive say a 100 miles then see a vehicle on the side of the road and then go apeshit crazy or blind as a bat.

I’m guessing she was texting and driving.

 

[was21]

yep remember him well...played for Tyler...he was tough...played so hard sometimes the heat in early season games got to him

 

[o_Hot Rock]

http://www.wlbt.com/story/38956548/...u-all-american-killed-in-madison-co-car-crash

 

[coach66]

Very good friend, our family is devestated.

Loved him

 

[thatsbaseball]

Good friend....I am sick.

 

[Upyurs]

Doing what many on this board are Great at.... A lot of uninformed "guessing"

 

[was21]

Are you talking to me?

 

[thatsbaseball]

Playing at Florida and I believe they had astro turf at the time and it was hot as hell. Stan left absolutely everything on the field and if I remember correctly went straight from the game to the hospital. He was a damn warrior..we lost a damn good man today. It hurts to think about it.

 

[Upyurs]

Are you talking to me?

No I wasn't. Those who seem to know the cause of the accident.

 

[Shmuley]

Good friend of many. His company does great work. Very sad.

 

[BigBully]

Very good person. Met him a few times through mutual friends — he was a good guy. Thoughts and prayers are with his family.

 

[MarkDallas]

He was my father in law's teammate and roommate.

 

[Shamoan]

Per the psa on the radio, in the time it takes to read the average text message (5 sec), at highway speed, you cover a football field in length. People make bad decisions and some end up costing others their life.

 

[BigDawg@HillsofMS14]

He also owned Bulldog Construction In gluckstadt. He was a dawg through and through. Used to see him eating at Angelo’s in gluckstadt pretty often. Was a really nice guy.

 

[patdog]

Terrible news. He was a great player back in the day & by all accounts a really good guy. And yes, that stretch of I55 from just north of the Canton exit to just south of the Madison exit is a death trap.

 

[dawgoneyall]

Have you ever driven before? Blind spots, blind curves, dangerous shoulders and off ramps all exist. It’s just life. Accidents happen. The driver may have been on her phone. She may have been eating a sandwich and dropped something on her shirt. She may have been drunk. She may have had a dog in the car that distracted her for a second. There are a ton of reasons why this may have happened. None of them are any consolation to Stan Black’s family.

BS.

Yep. Drive everyday. Maybe you need to stop driving. Damn......

Sideswiping cars on the side of the road occur much too often.

 

[The Peeper]

Stan Black is the first Bulldog name I remember as a kid hearing Jack Cristil call out over the radio. What a senseless way to go.....

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

I interviewed Stan a number of times while a reporter for the Reflector during his playing days at State. Great guy and tough player. RIP.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

That exit is about as wide open as you can get. She ran into the trailer because she wasn’t paying 17’ing attention. It doesn’t matter how she was distracted.

 

[LawDawg97]

Exactly. Stan’s death is awful. Why “guess”

Doing what many on this board are Great at.... A lot of uninformed "guessing"

as to what the other party was doing? Reaction time + braking distance at 70 mph is over 300 feet. A football field. It isn’t necessarily the driver’s fault. Could be. We don’t know. A lot of accidents like this happen when first car sees it late and swerves and second car following doesn’t have time to swerve because they’re too close at that point. What I do know is that if someone had better secured their sheet rock to a trailer before hauling it on an interstate our good samaritan and friend Stan wouldn’t have been in that position.

 

[maroonmadman]

Stan is one of my cousins. He was a tough - as - nails Football player and an all around nice person off the field. The world becomes a lesser place when we lose people like Stan. He will be missed.