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Title: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: 41magsnub on September 15, 2010, 10:32:12 PM
http://www.mtstandard.com/news/local/article_330b923a-bd60-11df-87a2-001cc4c03286.html (http://www.mtstandard.com/news/local/article_330b923a-bd60-11df-87a2-001cc4c03286.html)

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The crash left the driver badly shaken, according to Hildenstab.
  ya think?

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Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: Northwoods on September 15, 2010, 11:06:45 PM
 :O

Dayum!
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: RocketMan on September 15, 2010, 11:53:54 PM
Yikes! That falls into the, "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes", category.
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: brimic on September 16, 2010, 12:04:17 AM
Gotta wonder why that fence existed in the first place- it doesn't look there are too many solid objects that a car can hit if it went off the road...
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: Jocassee on September 16, 2010, 12:04:52 AM
I have fallen asleep at the wheel twice in my 23 years. The first time their should have been bits of Toyota all over western NC but I woke up about a half second before we hit the guard rail.

Second time I was all the way on the shoulder before I woke up. Nothing keeping me from rolling right up the bank and flipping the car over.

There's no doubt in my mind that my guardian angels get combat pay.
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: Jocassee on September 16, 2010, 12:05:29 AM
Gotta wonder why that fence existed in the first place- it doesn't look there are too many solid objects that a car can hit if it went off the road...

Drainage ditch in the median. It'll roll a car depending on how fast you're going.
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 16, 2010, 12:14:24 AM
Drainage ditch in the median. It'll roll a car depending on how fast you're going.

And cars on the service road.
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: KD5NRH on September 16, 2010, 03:48:42 AM
And cars on the service road.

Dig the ditch a bit steeper and it'll solve that problem.  This is part of why I'd like to see the rumble strips go away; they tend to keep drifting drivers barely on the road, rather than letting them run off into a nice inanimate object right away before they hurt someone.
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: Tallpine on September 16, 2010, 11:04:06 AM
The driver left Washington early that morning on his way to Idaho.

He "fell asleep" as he was approaching Deer Lodge, Mt.  ;/


He must have been asleep long before that - he drove over 200 miles past Idaho  :O

Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: AmbulanceDriver on September 16, 2010, 11:28:19 AM
Imagine the "Oh ****" moment when he woke up after the initial impact, and had 30 yards of guardrail whipping past him INSIDE the suburban.....  I have to imagine that was a somewhat surreal moment..........
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on September 16, 2010, 11:32:47 AM
yea  that hadda  have a pucker factor   bet his nickname is lucky
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: makattak on September 16, 2010, 11:43:40 AM
yea  that hadda  have a pucker factor   bet his nickname is lucky

I'm guessing his nickname is Droopy or Sleepy.
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: brimic on September 16, 2010, 01:00:24 PM
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Drainage ditch in the median. It'll roll a car depending on how fast you're going.
I must be thinking about this all wrong. In my AO, we only have those fences to protect bridges and waterways. I guess the trees here are for stopping wayward hehicles. :laugh:
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: sanglant on September 16, 2010, 03:20:31 PM
brimic, the freedom hating hippies haven't manged to take over your local government yet. fear the day they do. [tinfoil]
Title: Re: This is why you shouldn't fall asleep driving (amazingly with no injuries)
Post by: Tallpine on September 16, 2010, 03:55:46 PM
Doesn't look like it pierced the engine block to me  =|

But I bet that car is going to need a new heater core  ;)