Sense Sonnet - Acher

Heard and Helpless

A passenger called 911,
And said the gas pedal was stuck.
Was there nothing that could be done?
The car was heading for a truck,
In an intersection real near.
Before the operator could
Say take the car out of drive gear,
The phone went dead, which was not good.
The car missed the truck, but instead
Went off the road and hit a tree,
Bursting into flames that spread
So fast, that rescue could not be.

An entire family did die.
A stuck gas pedal - that was why.