I have thought alot about the turning the wrong way. I remembered a friend of mine who hauled rocks, dirt, asphalt etc. Would do many loads a day of load up, drive, dump, then load,drive, dump, averaging 300 miles a day. He has been driving for 38 years. One time he stopped at yard to load up, last load for the day. He leaves load yard and gets about 40 miles from load location and gets a call. Boss asks if he is okay? He says sure, tired and ready for this day to be done. Boss says, well loader called and said you left without loading!!! Never, Ever in all those years and thousands of loads had he done that. Could not believe he had. So of course turned around and got loaded.I keep coming back to him turning right instead of left. I feel like that's at the crux of what happened. It does not sound like this would have been an unfamiliar area or route for him. On top of that, there is GPS and other nav systems. So what made him go the wrong direction?
Possibilities:
-Forced to drive that way by someone else in the truck or who enters truck at the stop
-Turned the wrong way because he is suffering some sort of medical event that causes him confusion, whether he realizes it or not
-Turned that way by choice to go somewhere else or meet someone purposely not on his actual path
-I guess I should put down turned that way totally by accident/got lost but I just don't think that's realistic for him
Any others? Looking at this list, I don't even know which one I think is most likely. If his truck was found going the right direction, that would open up more possibilities to me (like stopped to help a stranded motorist, someone was blocking the road, etc). But he wasn't going the right way. If someone he knew planned to target him by blocking the road or flagging him down, how could they have known he'd go the wrong way ahead of time? If he was planning to take off of his own accord, why did he have to go the wrong way? It's not like his truck was inconspicuous when it was sitting in the middle of a road, so he may as well have left it in the middle of the road going the right way. This is the part that just doesn't make sense to me.
With the <modsnip: no link> coat in the ditch, and wrong direction...makes me really wonder about a medical issue. Something that made him confused, out of it (hence wrong direction), and possibly feeling super hot? (take off coat) ?? Just a theory. Shutting everything off is a mystery but again if delirious for some reason?? Maybe. Once the snow goes away, seriously hope a "thorough" foot search is done. And of course watch for vultures when it warms up and investigate.
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