Close Call

[MikeL]

Here are an interesting, even breathtaking couple of photos.

 

 

Look at the picture above and you can see where this driver 
broke through the guardrail, on the right side of the culvert, 
where the people are standing on the road, pointing.

 

The pick-up was traveling about 75 mph from right to left 
when it crashed through the guardrail. 

It flipped end-over-end, bounced off and across the culvert outlet, 
and landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, facing the

opposite direction from which the driver was traveling.

The 22-year-old driver and his 18-year-old passenger 
were unhurt except for minor cuts and bruises.

This occurred just outside Flagstaff, AZ, on U.S. Hwy 100.

 

 

Now look at the second picture below...

 

 

 

 

That's what I consider a close call.

Edited March 7, 2013 by MikeL

[Zombie]

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!

Do not look at the second pic! :o

 

*vows never to step outside the front door ever ever again*

[Yettie One]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Dunno if it is just me, but that second pic looks decidedly dodgy!

[Zombie]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Dunno if it is just me, but that second pic looks decidedly dodgy!

 

Found these

 

 

 

 

 

*wishes he hadn't *

 

[Xtro]

That last picture - is there a close-up of the debris down the bottom there?

 

Only I'm going to be in the market for a new car soon, and I figure if it isn't a make/model down in that heap, then it should have pretty good road holding....

[Yettie One]

Found these

 

*wishes he hadn't *

 

 

Grief! It was the way the fenced cage seemed to have moved that made me wonder.

What is that a sink hole?

[TetRefine]

I bet they had to change their underwear after that.

[Finn]

That is a very close call! Looks like speeding actually saved 'em.  'S not all bad, seems. ;P

[Zombie]

More reason to stay home with the blinds shut and the door locked ...

[joann414]

I think I will just listen to Zombie next time and not look!

[Y_B]

There goes their Thelma and Louis moment

[Xtro]

Not forgetting that some days you can't even get out the door before the sky starts falling.  Well, one of those pesky space rocks...

[rustle]

Damn if that won't tighten up your pucker string.

[Celethiel]

next question were they drunk?

 

Damn if that won't tighten up your pucker string.

It may tighten that, but it'd give me second thoughts about tightening the seatbelt... a loose seat belt and flying out to actually land in the culvert would be prefferable to falling with the vehicle into the gorge.