Close one. Oh my gosh. Close.

Post by **Dale** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:23 pm

http://www.fresh99.com/close-call.htm

Cork · Post by **Cork** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:29 pm

It was the third picture, wow!

Ronbo · Post by **Ronbo** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:16 pm

The third one really makes your stomach sort of fall off the edge.....

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:37 pm

That looks all to much like my close call this summer- the drop wasn't quite as far,(only about 50 ft straight down) but just as deadly had I gone over-plus I was driving on the right side so I could just see those trees stabbing me through my open window as I flipped down to the creek far below. Grrrr that cost me that Jeep and a bunch of grief but at least it totaled the jerk's car that hit me. I miss my old Jeep.

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:38 pm

How did the truck end up there? I see no broken fence on the truck's side.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:53 pm

That happened in Mexico. It's too bad the guy who posted the pics didn't include the story. The truck was actually coming from the right in the pics, traveling towards the left. He jumped the fence to the right of the culvert, went over the chasm and landed nose first on the left bank, where the truck flipped and landed upright facing the opposite way. Now you understand why that was such a miracle.

Or as Graham Chapman would say, "Looks like a brown trouser job."

djm

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:54 pm

Azalin wrote:How did the truck end up there? I see no broken fence on the truck's side.

I can't figure that out either.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:59 pm

The story from the good people at snopes --http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp

According to this article, it happened in Utah, and the guy was probably doing 75 to 80 when he left the road.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:02 pm

Thanks Gonzo. So he did skirt that culvert. That's what the broken guardrail suggested, but it seemed pretty unlikely.

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:12 am

What is that at the base of the cliff, below the culvert? Looks like another vehicle ...

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:45 am

I'd like to see what happens with the culvert on a rainy day. The driver was probably drunk and completely missed the whole adventure.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:02 am

I used to have dreams (nightmares?) about something very similar to that as a kid.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:05 am

From the number of rescue men around the car, it is apparent that the driver is still inside the car. The problem is how to get the driver out of the car, as the doors may be jammed from the impact of the crash. The rescue personnel are standing too close to the edge for me to look. Is there a printed story that goes with the photos?

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:34 am

Cranberry wrote:I used to have dreams (nightmares?) about something very similar to that as a kid.

That means this will happen to you some time in your life, probably near the end. That's how things like this work.

Remember, though, that we can't pick up on those cosmic eddies easily. Our minds infuse them with symbolism that we can understand. In this case, you never know if it's really involving a car, or just a similar, albeit smaller-scale, event with, oh, a unicycle or something.

Could be just walking, too. There you are, cruising along one of those college hallways and somebody bumps you . . . the mechanics are just right and next thing you know you've gone over the edge of a balcony or down a stairwell.

This happened to someone I know. He went through a plate-glass window first, though. You'd think something like that would break the fall, but it didn't.

Post by **Dale** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:00 am

Lambchop wrote:
Cranberry wrote:I used to have dreams (nightmares?) about something very similar to that as a kid.
That means this will happen to you some time in your life, probably near the end. That's how things like this work.
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Hm. By this logic, I'll eventually show up to a college class in my underwear.