Don’t know if this would be considered an accident or not

This just came across my news feed this evening…. Prayers for the family of the driver:

FARGO — A semi driver was found dead Monday, June 17, in his cab at a Fargo gas station.

The Fargo Police Department, Fargo Fire Department and Cass County Coroner’s Office responded shortly after noon Monday to the Petro Travel Center at 4510 19th Ave. S. for a report of a man who died in semi-minister. Tara Hobbs, a semi driver from Ocean Shores, Wash., watched from her semi as emergency responders removed a man’s body from the sleeper cab of a blue semi.

The semi the man was found in was parked in the truck lot Wednesday, Hobbs said. The Forum spoke with her shortly after authorities left the scene.

The blue semi was still parked in the truck lot just southwest of the Petro store when a reporter interviewed Hobbs.

It is not clear how the man died or when he died. Based on a video Hobbs showed The Forum, it was likely the man had been dead for several days. He looked to be in his 60s or 70s, she said.

Hobbs said he saw a man in a red SUV pull up to the scene before looking inside the semi. The man came out a few minutes later and called 911, she said.

Several police vehicles parked in front of her truck before she went to the semi, she said. After a medical examiner inspected the body inside the semi, police, medical examiners and firefighters worked to remove the man’s body from the sleeper cab, she said.

The man was pulled head first while on his back, the video showed. Authorities placed a body bag over his body, but it appeared to come out halfway up his torso, the video showed.

Hobbs said the body could have been removed from the semi in a more dignified manner. Police and coroners should have taken more steps to hide the body from view, she said.

“They should have put him in a disaster pack first and then taken him out,” she said. “Instead, they brought it out and had a live audience.”

The Forum has reached out to the Fargo Police Department and the Coroner’s Office for comment.

Hobbs said it was disturbing and depressing to watch the man pulled from the semi, saying the way authorities treated the Petro man was unprofessional. Her father was a funeral director, she said, adding that he knew how bodies should be treated.

“I don’t care if you’re a truck driver or not,” she said. “You don’t make a person like that. If it weren’t for us, you wouldn’t have any food or meals in your fridge.”