A woman in Vancouver learned the news of husband's death in a car accident in the worst possible way. She was the one unknowingly live-tweeting the fatal car crash.
Carl Johnson, well known in local social-media circles for her tweets on Clark County traffic, was exceptionally hard, KATU-TV reported.
When a newspaper in Vancouver, Washington sent out a tweet to its followers informing them about an accident in the southbound lanes of I-205, an interstate that serves Washington and Oregon, Johnson picked up the news.
A regular tweeter of information heard on the scanner, Johnson started sending out live updates about the emergency response to the accident.
In between, the mother of two from Salmon Creek sent out a few tweets which expressed how she "hates that section" of the highway, KATU-TV reported.
"Too many on ramps, speeders and too few lanes," she wrote.
According to KATU-TV, about 10 tweets later and a half-hour after the Columbian reported the accident on Twitter, Johnson realized her husband would have normally used the roadway to get back home and began to worry.
"I'm trying not to panic, but my husband left work early and he drives 205 to get home," she posted. "He's not answering his phone. And he's late."
As the hours passed and her kids arrived home, Johnson grew more concerned. According to a later tweet, Johnson's husband was feeling faint and decided to leave work early. Other Twitter users tried to calm her down and console her as Johnson got more and more frantic.
Upon calling 911 and giving the police her husband's license number, Johnson was told she would receive a call back. At 6:50 pm, about two hours after her first tweet, she got confirmation. Craig R Johnson, 47, was pronounced dead on scene.
"It's him. He died," she tweeted.
His car veered across a grassy median and collided head-on with another car.
The online community is rallying to support Johnson and the two children. A fundraising site with a goal of $10,000 has been set up. For more information, click here.
