Bad Car Wreck - My expereince.

[zane 10+ year member]

I'm still kind of in awe of this whole thing but here goes:

Tuesday afternoon my father and I were involved in a serious high speed, double roll over, car accident.

We were bringing a load of lumber back from our materials supplier on our 93' Dodge Ram 350 HD Flatbed and I was driving.

30 miles had passed without issue, then we turned on to the highway that leads into town. It's about 10 miles outside of the town, an old 2 lane highway with no shoulders and deep ditches.

I was driving (below the posted limit) and all of a sudden the truck veered sharply to the right and almost went into the ditch. I recovered with some quick steering only to have the truck sharply veer to the left, I recoverd with steering again only to have the truck again veer to the right sharply.

This is where the problem really began.

As the truck veered sharply to the right again, the load of lumber on the truck shifted and drug the rear end of the truck around, causing us to roll the truck twice. Once on the highway, and once into the right ditch.

The truck came to rest on it's wheels, on the outer ditch incline, and facing the opposite direction of which we were traveling.

I was wearing a seatbelt. My Father was not.

My Father was thrown from his position in the front passenger seat into the rear extended cab. My shoulder belt gave way throwing me towards the center, but my lap belt held.

No fires, or fuel leaking.

My Father and I were both concious, and were ok as could be expected.

I managed to get un-buckled and had to kick open the passenger side door, as neither door would open.

Luckily, an off duty paramedic was passing by and he stopped to help.

I was only complaining of sharp pain in my left upper arm, my father was having lower back pain and arm pain from a reconstructive surgery that he had a week earlier.

The paramedic slid down the ditch to help my dad, and I used his phone to call 911.

Shortly after, the ambulance, police, and fire department arrived. Due to the question of potential injuries that my father may have had, they had to use the jaws to get him out of the truck safely.

They immediately put him on a board and in a neck brace and into an ambulance.

I was walking around on scene talking to the paramedics/police and letting them know what happened.

They checked me out, and advised that I be placed on a board and in a neck brace as well.

Skipping ahead...........

We arrived at the hospital and were taken to our ER Rooms, each with a full medical team of Doctors, Nurses, and Trauma Team.

After being looked over, tested, and asked "Does this hurt?" eleventy billion times, umong other questions, the Doctor said I appear to be fine and can be discharged.

My father had the same procedure, except he also had several X-Rays and CT Scans to further determine any injuries. Those all came up clean with no problems. He did have to have some stitches replaced on his arm from the week prior's surgery, but other than that, he just had a few scrapes.

He was also discharged the same night, about 3 hours after I was.

The part I'm in awe of...........

After a double roll over car accident, in which the vehicle sustained over $10,000 in damage--------

My Father and I walked away from the accident virtually un-harmed.

We're both a little sore and stiff today, but that's it.

Now you see where the awe part comes in.

One thing I know for sure.

There is a God, and he had our back.

I have no doubts about that one bit.

Just thought that I would share my experience with everyone.

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[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

Looks like the big man was lookin out for you guys. God for teh win !

Any idea why the truck veered back and forth ?

 

[zane 10+ year member]

Looks like the big man was lookin out for you guys. God for teh win !Any idea why the truck veered back and forth ?

No doubt about it.

As for the truck, why it veered off is still undetermined. Could be a number of things. Bad road conditions, a ball joint or tie rod failing, etc.

Not sure really. Just glad (and amazed) to walk away.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

Good to hear youre ok. Similar thing happened to my father last summer. Someone ran a redlight and T-Boned him and pushed him into a ditch (large ditch) with 4+ feet of water in it. He rolled twice and landed upside down in the water. He walked away unharmed also.

 

[Savstyle 10+ year member]

wow thank god you both came out okay, jeesh thats nuts

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

glad to hear that you and your father are ok

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Glad to hear you all are ok. Sounded like a crazy ride. Reminded me when I was in my accident back in 1996. Some chic hit me while I was at a deadstop waiting for the light to turn green. Well I guess there is some way you can tell how fast someone is going by there skid marks from there tires. A cop I knew told me about a week later that she was doing around 60 miles an hour when she started to skid, so at impact is was around 55 or so. I was amazed at that. All I remember was my car looked like a slinky. They had to use the jaws of life on my car as well. The only thing that kept me from passing out was me burning my hand on the muffler in my front passenger seat. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif I know how did my muffler end up there,lol! Sorry to threadjack if I did, just reminded me of some old times. Also someone was watching out for me as well. Cant say the same for the lady that hit me as she has to walk around with an oxygen tank for the rest of her life. She was only 26 when she hit me. So she is almost 36 now. Crazy stuff mang. Peace!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[wlmrs 10+ year member]

Thank the good ol' lord up above.....now get on your knees and pray!

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

glad your ok zane.

my question is rahter a bit deeper, but if god had your back, then why did the truck veer to begin with?

but seriously, glad you are alright man. the truck can always be repaced right //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Jordantyler 10+ year member]

glad to hear yall are okay.. i guess everything happens for a reason

 

[marleyskater420 5,000+ posts]

Glad to hear your faith is still strong with you. Things like this aren't easy to speak of, and I hope your father has a quick and speedy recovery from his previous operation.

God Bless Zane.

 

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

Glad you and your father are ok man. Hit me up on aim if your ever up this late would love to catch up with you, been a few months.

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

Thats good to hear you two are ok.

Zane what road was this on? Because Im living in Cedar Rapids now and Tuesday and Wednesday were bad days to drive around.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

Whats god have to do with it?

Sorry about the wreck and I am glad everyone is ok but

if god was really watching his back he wouldent have had the wreck to begin with.

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

with the whole god thing you could argue back and forth, but all that matters is you are both okay so call it what you want but dont start arguing about if god did/didn't have anything do with it. it really doesnt matter all that does matter is no one was seriously hurt.

i have accepted gee-whiz as my lord and savior