File this one under: Gross.

This story could be the best argument for buying new or rental that you have ever heard.  I’ll let UPI.com sum the story up:

A car was towed to an impound lot with the body of the driver inside because an officer failed to check the inside the vehicle, Cleveland police said Tuesday.

A lawyer for Emil Azzam’s family told The Cleveland Plain-Dealer that an insurance adjuster found the body Sunday afternoon, two days after Azzam was killed in a one-car crash. John Lemieux said that the family is “outraged.”

It seems that Azzam was driving on a slick snow covered road when he lost control and crashed.  Azzam’s family was notified that he had been hurt in the crash but a search of local hospitals yielded no Emil.  In another odd twist to this story apparently the deceased driver signed an inventory form for the towing company.  Spooky.  All sarcasm aside, if I had to guess however, I would say that this signature is likely not the dead driver’s as he was, well, dead at the time. 

It is not noted how Mr.Azzam died specifically so I suppose that he could have been alive at the time and died later inside the car, but this seems pretty unlikely.  I suppose this should just serve as a lesson for drivers and cops that can be summed up as follows: Drive carefully in the snow, and check the cars you are having towed for corpses.  It’s just common sense people!

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