04-11-2018, 05:08 AM
That’s a crazy story ferret. I’ve read many of your posts the last few years but don’t remember seeing that one.
I do understand the trepidation you must have had when returning to the scene. I had an incident back in 2004 in Dodge Ram in State Rt. 14 outside of East Palestine Ohio.
A lady in a minivan failed to yield coming out of a side street and clipped my rear wheel as I passed her going about 55 mph. The impact catapulted me onto a guard rail upside down and then I landed in the middle of Route 14 while my truck spun around on its roof with me suspended upside down dangling by the seatbelt.
I remember the feeling of everything happening in slow motion as I saw her approaching the side of the truck knowing full well I was going to get hit and it would be an ugly experience. Luckily the seatbelt saved me from death and rendered me with a broken shoulder, several broken ribs, a concussion and a bunch of cuts from broken glass.
The strange thing was the impact where I was hit in Ohio was literally 10 feet from the Pa. border. The Pa. state trooper that arrived first at the scene left me high and dry when he examined the scene and determined that the accident actually happened in Ohio even though the vehicle was on its roof in Pa. He told me to call the Ohio Highway Patrol to make a report and drove away...couldn’t believe it.
Unfortunately I still get the creeps when I drive thru that area a couple times a week for work. Long story short, I’m glad I was in a truck and not on a bike or it would’ve likely been lights out for me.
I do understand the trepidation you must have had when returning to the scene. I had an incident back in 2004 in Dodge Ram in State Rt. 14 outside of East Palestine Ohio.
A lady in a minivan failed to yield coming out of a side street and clipped my rear wheel as I passed her going about 55 mph. The impact catapulted me onto a guard rail upside down and then I landed in the middle of Route 14 while my truck spun around on its roof with me suspended upside down dangling by the seatbelt.
I remember the feeling of everything happening in slow motion as I saw her approaching the side of the truck knowing full well I was going to get hit and it would be an ugly experience. Luckily the seatbelt saved me from death and rendered me with a broken shoulder, several broken ribs, a concussion and a bunch of cuts from broken glass.
The strange thing was the impact where I was hit in Ohio was literally 10 feet from the Pa. border. The Pa. state trooper that arrived first at the scene left me high and dry when he examined the scene and determined that the accident actually happened in Ohio even though the vehicle was on its roof in Pa. He told me to call the Ohio Highway Patrol to make a report and drove away...couldn’t believe it.
Unfortunately I still get the creeps when I drive thru that area a couple times a week for work. Long story short, I’m glad I was in a truck and not on a bike or it would’ve likely been lights out for me.