WARRENTON, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com)—
"All of a sudden there was a just a cop flying out of nowhere, came right around me and hit this Grand Am," explains a still stunned Liz Mischlispy. "I heard the sirens them I heard a big boom and then I saw a big cloud of smoke." She says as she sat in a line of cars northbound on Highway 47 she heard a siren but it was only a second or two before she saw the impact just feet from her car."It just happened so fast," Mischlispy says. She was waiting to turn right off of Highway 47 when just in front of her Donald Wood, 59, was waiting to turn left. She says he had his blinker on, and with the all clear in the southbound lanes in front of him he made the turn unknowingly into the path of a Warrenton police officer speeding up behind him. That officer was responding to a call for help from another officer dealing with a domestic fight that was getting out of hand. The supervising State Trooper on the scene says the officer had his lights and siren on when he approached the intersection. Mischlispy says she heard those sirens but only a blink before the impact.
"It was right beside me. It was scary," she says, "I didn't have my radio on and I didn't even hear any sirens."
Apparently neither did Don Wood. What he thought was clear a second later wasn't. The impact was on the drivers side of the Grand Am driven by the retired G.M. worker and proud American veteran. Wood was less than a mile from home and was pronounced dead at the scene. The officer, Kyle Smith, 24, is expected to recover. Those that witnessed it, however still can't find the answer to how it could have happened.
"I just don't see how that cop couldn't see that car turning," says Mischlispy. "It doesn't make sense and it's horrible an innocent person got killed like that."
