I watched a man die in front of me

I watched a man die in front of me last night, and he was dangerous enough that it's relevant to this sub.<br><br>The guy was driving on a bridge with no lights on and didn't see the stopped car in front of him. I was about two cars behind him when he slammed into the parked car. The parked car was pushed forward about half a car length and rolled onto the shoulder. I immediately pulled over to help, I made sure my car was visible with hazard lights on and I turned on my phone light, and I ran up to the crashed car to check on the driver. Other cars on the bridge were slowing down, and a few even pulled over to help as well. I tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge. I walked around to the passenger side of the car and opened it, and the guy was just sitting in silence, bleeding from his head. I told him to stay calm, I'm calling 911, and I reached into his pocket to get his phone. He tried to physically fight me and was saying "I'm not drunk, I'm not on drugs, I'm just tired. Do you have a pill I could take to wake up?"<br><br>I assumed he was on something at first, but the guy just seemed really out of it, almost like he had no idea what was going on. With how disoriented he was and the fact he didn't even seem to care about the damage to his car, I assumed he was probably drunk or high, but it didn't seem like he was hostile. I thought maybe he would get arrested, but if he was just high and not hostile it wouldn't be that big of a deal.<br><br>I grabbed his phone and tried to unlock it, and I could smell a very strong herbal smell, like almost weed but not quite. I was able to unlock his phone with his fingerprint and I called 911. I explained to them what happened and they said they're on their way. I told the guy to just sit still and stay calm, and he repeated that he wanted a pill to stay awake. I told him that wasn't a good idea and he needed to wait for medical attention. He seemed to accept that and stopped fighting, and just sat silently in his car, occasionally making a groaning noise and whimpering like a hurt animal.<br><br>At this point, a few people had stopped, including an older gentleman and I assume his daughter, and another guy who was on the way home from work. The older gentleman and daughter were trying to help the driver of the parked car, who thankfully seemed to be okay, but they were calling 911 on their own and the older gentleman got out his car to direct traffic, while the other guy was helping me deal with the crashed car.<br><br>The crashed car driver started making more and more intense noises, and he started to openly bleed more. I tried to ask him more questions about his condition, and he said he was tired and wanted to go home. I told him help was on the way, and he just became more and more agitated, until he had a full on seizure. I've never actually seen a seizure in person before, I've only seen it in movies, and I wasn't sure what to do. I tried to make sure his head wasn't hitting anything on the car, and I kept calling out to him to try and keep him awake, even though I really had no idea what I was doing.<br><br>The seizure stopped and he started groaning louder, almost like he was in labor, and then he started throwing up all over himself. I was trying to hold his head higher so he didn't choke, and I told the other guy who was helping to get some paper towels from his car. I was trying to keep him calm and I kept talking to him, but he was getting more and more agitated. The other guy came back with some paper towels and we tried to wipe him down, but he just kept throwing up, almost like exorcist-level throwing up. He kept saying "I'm so tired, I need to go home, stop holding me."<br><br>He started kicking me and trying to push me away, and I noticed his eyes were very dilated, but the way he was acting he MUST have been on something. He started punching me in the face and I fell backwards, landing on my ass on the street. He started running, and the other guy tried to grab him but missed, and he ran off the bridge. I heard a splash, and when I got to the side of the bridge I couldn't see anything. I heard the daughter screaming behind me, and when I came back over the police and paramedics were there, and they were trying to resuscitate him. Turns out he had jumped into the water, and the current must have pushed him away because the police couldn't find his body.<br><br>I assume they'll find it down stream eventually, but at the moment he's still missing. The police took my statement and they seemed confused, they said the guy didn't have any weapons on him, and he didn't seem dangerous when they were trying to resuscitate him, and he was definitely very high on something. They were going to do an autopsy to figure it out once they found the body.<br><br>They took me to the hospital because the guy had punched me in the face and I was bleeding. The doctor said nothing was broken but I would probably have bruising and it was like a minor concussion, and they told me to be careful of my head for the next few days.<br><br>I keep having nightmares about the whole thing, I can't stop hearing the sound of his body hitting the water. I almost wish I hadn't seen it, and I can't stop imagining what his last few seconds must have been like, underwater alone in the dark.<br><br>I'm just glad I wasn't the one driving in front of him, because if I was it wouldn't have been a minor accident. The guy was going almost 60 when he crashed, and if he had actually hit another car it's not something that anyone would have survived.<br><br>I don't know what he was on or why he did what he did, but I consider him someone I would absolutely not want to meet again, and I'm just glad I won't have to.<br><br>Edit: I wrote this in the middle of the night and I was very shaken up, so I apologize if this was a bit of a ramble. Also, I'm not trying to criticize people who suffer from a drug addiction, I was more surprised that someone could be so high and still manage to drive. I'm very anti-drugs and I don't condone drug use, but I recognize that it is a sickness and people deserve help, not punishment.