TX TX - Waid Robison, 22, Forney, 21 Apr 2024

[TwinkieDefense]

April 23, 2024 article

Rescue and recovery efforts end for a man who disappeared after a crash in Forney

Forney PD said they are now treating this case as an active missing person investigation and will continue to follow leads on the 22-year-old.

www.wfaa.com

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“ We were able to track these steps all the way back towards the creek that we just came from, where they found his iPhone,” Banno said.

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[carbuff]

Wow, I hope they can find him. It sounds like he might have been injured in the crash and disoriented?

 

[borndem]

April 23, 2024 article

Rescue and recovery efforts end for a man who disappeared after a crash in Forney

Forney PD said they are now treating this case as an active missing person investigation and will continue to follow leads on the 22-year-old.

www.wfaa.com

[…]

“ We were able to track these steps all the way back towards the creek that we just came from, where they found his iPhone,” Banno said.

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bbm I could be totally wrong, but Banno's comment above about a creek is quite worrisome to me. They found his phone which, apparently, was near a creek. The word "creek" bothers me, but I don't know anything about it -- the geography, how deep it is, type of current, etc.
Also, it was said that Waid could be disoriented. Those two situations could be dangerous.
Hoping for good news soon.

 

[carbuff]

Yeah, bodies of water and disoriented person are not a good combination.

 

[translator]

So immediately after the crash he called family (BIL) to meet up with him nearby but then never showed up. Footprints show he wandered barefoot through a construction site and to a creek where his phone was found.

It sounds like it was a bit of a walk from the site of the crash to where his phone was found; happening to walk to a body of water really is unfortunate. I hope he’s okay, maybe just a bit disoriented somewhere and the continued lack of contact is owing to his being without his phone.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

https://www.facebook.com/forneypd.org/posts/pfbid0wPDwhnnjXcF3VwnRqZGCKwubfJSPup5dkT64TiAtDastgLbg5ckmr21iQhBtxe8Kl

 

[StillDiggin]

‘No idea where he is': Search continues for missing man in Forney

Waid Robison, 22, vanished Sunday morning on his way to work after crashing his car on Highway 80 near FM 460.

www.nbcdfw.com

 

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Snipped: The search has now transitioned from rescue to recovery mode, with efforts primarily concentrated on the retrieval of Wade. While we truly appreciate the community's eagerness to help, we ask that volunteers refrain from participating in search efforts at this time

 

[TwinkieDefense]

April 25, 2024 article

Rescue and recovery efforts end for a man who disappeared after a crash in Forney

Forney PD said they are now treating this case as an active missing person investigation and will continue to follow leads on the 22-year-old.

www.wfaa.com

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"After an exhaustive effort by the Dallas Fire Department Swift Water Rescue Team, we were unable to find the whereabouts of 22-year-old Waid Robison today," the department said in a Facebook post.

However, Forney PD said they are treating this case as an active missing person investigation and will continue to follow leads on Robison's whereabouts.

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[buyerninety]

Couldn't see 'Farm to Market Road 460' on
Google Maps, but it seems there's today-on
scheduled roadworks going on about that area:
FM 460/CLEMENTS DRIVE CLOSES AT US 80 STARTING APRIL 26
"Weather permitting, all lanes of FM 460/Clements Drive will be closed at US 80 from 7 p.m. Friday, April 26"...

Wonder if any of the in-previous-days preparations
for that may have possibly contributed to Waid
Robison's accident?

 

[translator]

No more updates as of yet… There was a very similar case earlier this year, also in Texas, where Logan Jacinto was involved in a single-vehicle crash; he was later found deceased in a nearby creek. I think the best outcome at this point in time would be that Robison hasn’t made contact because the crash has impacted his cognition but it unfortunately seems less and less likely to be the case. Thinking of him and those who love him.

 

[di anna]

Drove by this area yesterday. I didn't know exactly where it was but since then I have seen the news and know where it is. Sorry for his loved ones and hope for a good outcome. Does anyone know if his car had any clues in it to where he might be and did he have any friends that lived close to where the accident was?

 

[Unalienable Rights]

'There was no blood in his car' | Mother of young man who went missing following Forney car crash pleads for answers

Three weeks ago, 22-year-old Waid Robison got in a car crash, and nobody has seen him since.

www.wfaa.com

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Sunday, on Mother's Day, Robison's mother Diana and grandmother Sharon met with WFAA in the hopes someone might see his story and share any information they have.

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Katie has waited at home for her brother every night, while her husband Dillon, with the help of several other volunteers, have resumed search efforts on their own.

"The hardest part is telling [Katie,] 'I’m coming home, and I don’t have her brother," Dillon told WFAA.

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Diana spent Sunday posting missing posters of her son on local businesses, and also reminiscing on the gift he gave her last Mother's Day.

"He sent me just a thing of metal roses…." she said.

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The Forney Police Department says despite the fact officers stopped searching the woods for Robison, detectives are still investigating his missing persons case and looking for leads.

 

[geojeffrey]

This case is similar to a lot of other cases in Texas. What is going on??

 

[translator]

Waid is still missing, right? Thinking of him, his family and his friends

 

[HD1]

This one is close by me, just saw there is a search for next weekend scheduled

 

[berberry08]

This one is close by me, just saw there is a search for next weekend scheduled

Im local. How can I help?

 

[daybreaking]

Im local. How can I help?

SEARCHING FOR WAID ROBISON!

Event by I am Missing, Don't Look Away on Sunday, December 29 2024

www.facebook.com

Here are the details for the search in Forney tomorrow.

 

[mlhenn]

Search continues for Kaufman County man missing for 8 months

Volunteers continue the search for Waid Robison, a Kaufman County man who’s been missing for eight months. The 22-year-old disappeared in April this year after reportedly walking away from a car crash near Clements Bridge in Forney.

www.audacy.com

Volunteers continue the search for Waid Robison, a Kaufman County man who’s been missing for eight months.

Sunday morning, search teams gathered to comb the area near Highway 80 and FM 460, Robinson’s last known location.

A spokesperson for the City of Forney said the search had transitioned from rescue to recovery, focusing efforts on the retrieval of Robison.

 

[daybreaking]

This young man has been missing almost a year now.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0KrjqVjqUm6Yr6C9ZWWMsrajrdr4P2v2Rw963yyZKfFhGA3Ghjv3kPRftTbtxsUVUl&id=61573785672427

Waid Robison, 22, Mesquite, Texas (4/21/2024) - Texas EquuSearch Search And Recovery

22 year-old Waid Robison was involved in a single vehicle accident around 6:30 am on 4/21/2024 on Hwy 80 near FM 460 (Clements Dr). He called a co-worker to

texasequusearch.org

Waid was traveling to Forney (from Mesquite) for work. He was wearing a long sleeve gray shirt with yellow lettering, "Practical Lawn Care", and khaki pants.

At 4/21/24, 6:30 AM (Sunday), he was in a single car accident in Forney on Highway 80 near FM 460 (Clements Dr), heading eastbound.

“He was headed to Forney from the skyway and lost control and spun out back of the car, hit the side wall and pushed the concrete pillars out of the way” ( WFAA ABC News)

He called a co-worker to pick him up at a nearby business, but never arrived - Kwik Kar, located at the corner of Broad St & Pinson Rd. ( Forney Police Department )

His phone and footprints were found near a creek on Tuesday. ( ‘No idea where he is': Search continues for missing man in Forney )

“We tracked his footsteps all the way from that overpass up into the new construction zone, down the access road where you can see where he has a footprint in the mud, he was barefoot.”

[..]“We were able to track these steps all the way back towards the creek that we just came from, where they found his iPhone.” ( Rescue and recovery efforts end for a man who disappeared after a crash in Forney )

If you scroll to the bottom of the page here: Buffalo Ck nr Trinity Rd at Forney, TX , there's a map that shows the creek, and you can zoom out to see where it flows south-east and eventually into the Trinity River. Here's a photo from Wikipedia showing the direction it flows: Trinity River (Texas) - Wikipedia

It runs through these Texas counties:
Kaufman, Ellis, Navarro, Henderson, Freestone, Anderson, Houston, Leon

There was heavy rain and flooding all that month, and about a week after he disappeared there was such severe weather that the county was part of a disaster declaration: Governor Abbott Issues Severe Weather Disaster Declaratation For East Texas In April 2024

Google Maps from May 2024 shows how much more water there was than there is now.