Lots going on here in this story on a fatal accident at an Elon Police Department checkpoint Friday night. I’ll give you the short version. It’s not pretty.

Apparently someone driving without a license approached the checkpoint and tried to turn around. The cops stopped the driver, and seeing he did not have a license, told him to call someone to come pick him up. Turns out the person he called didn’t have a license either, and he tried to turn around. The cops stopped him, too, and that’s when the Jeep Cherokee came barreling through at 55 mph.

Apparently 21-year-old Shakeshia Taylor was a passenger in one of the vehicles that had been stopped and was standing by the side of the road when she hit by the Cherokee. Elon police officer J.T. Turney was also struck by the Cherokee.

That tragic consequences were the result of sheer stupidity on many levels simply blows my mind.