CHARLOTTE — Pat Dwyer still gets uneasy riding on the team bus after a hockey game, when all is dark and quiet. That will never go away.
“When it’s at night and you hear the rumble strips going, it brings back memories,” Dwyer said Friday.
On an icy night in February 2009, Dwyer was with the Albany River Rats, then the Carolina Hurricanes’ American Hockey League affiliate, and returning from a game. The Rats bus skidded and hit a guard rail, then flipped onto its side on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Dwyer was fortunate and not injured in the crash.