>No one hurt physically Glad to hear. Most fatalities in rollovers are due to ejection.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: GESO - In the Creek > Yes they were. > > We were in a rollover accident 50 miles east of Denver on black ice in > late > 2002. Three humans buckled in, two dogs in kennels. No one hurt > physically > (PTSD yes). Mitsubishi Montero totalled, top caved in several inches, no > glass left in the vehicle. As you say, a few feet one away or another, 10 > mph faster, and things could have been totally different. > > It gives one some perspective with regard to what's really important. > > > Tom C. > > > >>From: "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: GESO - In the Creek >>Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:30:19 -0600 >> >>Tom, >> >>Always a good idea to have the camera handy. >>Lucky the occupants had only minor injuries. >> >>Deerhunting in Wisconsin is the Week of Thanksgiving. >>Friends went up north and returned with some black ice on the roads. >>They flipped the passenger car and landed in a farm field. >>Everybody was buckled in and three guys got out of the car without a >>scratch. >>The driver died. His part of the roof landed on a rock that crushed his >>head. >>Your guys were lucky... >> >>Regards, Bob S. >> >> >> >>On 2/14/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > It's not what you think. >> > >> > My family and I were on the way to town Saturday morning. A section of >> > state highway, at the bottom of a steep hill and on a curve, is late to >>get >> > sunshine and had a thin glazing of ice on it. As we approached from the >> > downhill side we saw an SUV rolled in the creek. >> > >> > We were second on the scene. The two guys got out and were helped up >>the >> > bank by the gentleman first to get there. They were pretty banged up >>and >> > bleeding from mostly small cuts and abrasions. My wife attempted to >>clean >> > them up a little and stop the bleeding from some larger gashes on one >> > of >>the >> > fellows arms. They took off the wet pants and I had them get in the >> > tailgate section of our vehicle under a blanket, turned the heater on >>full >> > blast and shut them in until the emergency workers arrived. The major >> > danger they faced was hypothermia and shock as it was about 20F and >> > they >> > were soaked and shivering. >> > >> > Hopefully they are OK now, but somebody gets a new vehicle. >> > >> > http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=340946 >> > >> > >> > Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
