Family Talks About Disney Worker Killed In I-4 Pileup
Thursday, January 10, 2008 – updated: 5:58 pm EST January 10, 2008
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Disney worker Scott Snyder, 35, was killed in the massive pileup on I-4 on Wednesday when he crashed into a gasoline tanker truck. When his family first saw the pictures of the I-4 pile-up in Polk County on Wednesday morning, they began to worry.
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Scott left Lakeland early for his job at Disney's Animal Kingdom where he works as a member of the engineering maintenance team."In my heart, I knew when I heard about the accident, because I knew where he was at that moment. My heart told me. I mean, I just had that sinking, sinking feeling in my stomach that it wasn't good," said Scott's relative, Mary Ussery.Scott and his wife Pam were married only six months ago in Jamaica. She immediately tried to call him on his cell phone and at work."She couldn't get a hold of him and he didn't get a hold of her," said Don Ussery, Scott's stepfather.Worried he was hurt, Scott's family called every hospital hoping they'd find him."It was an all day ordeal trying to find out," Don said.But, late Wednesday afternoon, nearly 10 hours after the crash, unvestigators found his red Mustang behind the wreckage of a gas tanker. His body was so badly burned, he couldn't be identified."He was just a delight to us and it's going to be a big hole in our lives and we don't understand, but God has a purpose for everything," Mary said.Snyder's family is frustrated it took so long for them to figure out what happened to him. They said emergency crews could have been more organized, but those crews said there was so much wreckage, it took time to get through it.
Scott left Lakeland early for his job at Disney's Animal Kingdom where he works as a member of the engineering maintenance team."In my heart, I knew when I heard about the accident, because I knew where he was at that moment. My heart told me. I mean, I just had that sinking, sinking feeling in my stomach that it wasn't good," said Scott's relative, Mary Ussery.Scott and his wife Pam were married only six months ago in Jamaica. She immediately tried to call him on his cell phone and at work."She couldn't get a hold of him and he didn't get a hold of her," said Don Ussery, Scott's stepfather.Worried he was hurt, Scott's family called every hospital hoping they'd find him."It was an all day ordeal trying to find out," Don said.But, late Wednesday afternoon, nearly 10 hours after the crash, unvestigators found his red Mustang behind the wreckage of a gas tanker. His body was so badly burned, he couldn't be identified."He was just a delight to us and it's going to be a big hole in our lives and we don't understand, but God has a purpose for everything," Mary said.Snyder's family is frustrated it took so long for them to figure out what happened to him. They said emergency crews could have been more organized, but those crews said there was so much wreckage, it took time to get through it.
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