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Offline Cobranut

Witnessed a bad crash this morning!
« on: February 19, 2016, 10:26:10 PM »
On my way to work, was about 200 feet behind a Jeep Patriot in the left lane when a woman in a small car came from a side street on the right trying to turn left.
She hit the Jeep in the right front, launching the Jeep into the air and rotating it sideways.  It landed on the roof and started a brutal series of at least 6 rolls, ending up on its top.
I cut to the right and pulled over even with the Jeep.  I called 911 and ran over to the Jeep to help.
I was pretty scared of what I was going to find when I opened the door, and I could hear a young lady crying inside.
When I opened the door she had already unbuckled her belts and was sitting on the ceiling crying hysterically.  I started talking to her to try to calm her down and see where she was hurt.  By that time some others showed up and she wanted out of the car.  Amazingly, she was able to stand with help and we got her laid down on the median and covered with a blanket.  I went back and checked the car and surrounding area for any other passengers.  Fortunately there were none.
I and another guy helped her get in touch with her husband and her mother, and I spoke to her mom again this afternoon and she had just been released from the hospital.
She had a large hematoma on her head, and a sore neck and shoulder, but otherwise was OK.
The guy upstairs was looking out for her this morning.  :)
The driver who caused it was totally unhurt, and her car had only moderate damage to the front end.

Be careful guys, shit can happen so quick.
1995 FD, 7.0 Liter stroked LS3, T56, 8.8, Samberg kit.

Offline Jooskid94

Re: Witnessed a bad crash this morning!
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2016, 11:39:31 PM »
 :halo: good stuff

Offline paul_3rdgen

Re: Witnessed a bad crash this morning!
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2016, 01:12:34 AM »
Wow..... And that's really nice of you to get involved.
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Offline 1320king

Re: Witnessed a bad crash this morning!
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2016, 09:54:39 AM »
Vary nice man! I wish somebody helped me when I got slammed into  ::) :'(

Offline ncaudio

Re: Witnessed a bad crash this morning!
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2016, 10:28:11 AM »
Cobranut, good you helped her out, hope her head didn't get wacked too hard. It's kind of funny because similar to that accident the only vehicle I've ever seen completely upside down on a highway was the Jeep also, it was a CJ7 ( I think), resting on its roll bar and nose
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Offline Cobranut

Re: Witnessed a bad crash this morning!
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2016, 09:13:00 PM »
ncaudio:  If she'd been in a CJ, with all those hard surfaces around her, I doubt she'd be alive.

I was impressed with how the Patriots passenger compartment held up.  The roof was compressed more on the passenger side, as I think that was where it first landed, but with all the tumbling and bouncing, both driver's side windows weren't even broken.  All the rear windows were shattered, which was why I checked the surrounding area for any occupants that might have been ejected.

The rate it was rolling was very fast, and debris was flying everywhere.  That reminds me, I need to check out my car to see if any of it hit me.

The driver airbag had deployed, but I didn't notice if it had any side airbags.  Even so, the crash lasted long enough that the bags would have deflated before it stopped rolling.

This is the second rollover I've witnessed on the street.
The first one was almost 40 years ago, and I remember it clearly.
When I was about 15 I was with my Dad when a white 1968 Mustang Coupe rounded a sharp turn coming toward us in a 25mph zone.  The rear swung out and the Mustang veered left and hit the guardrail on the inside of the turn.  The speed was so slow I was expecting it to bump the rail and stop.  Instead, the left front bumper climbed up the guardrail and the car rolled one and a half times, ending upside down.
When we pulled up, two teenage girls were crawling out the passengers door.
Neither one was wearing a seat belt, none of us did in those days. 
The driver was fine but the passenger was complaining of back pain.  We got her to lie still on the shoulder and Dad went and called for an ambulance.  The driver was crying and told me she didn't have a license, and had snuck her mom's car out to go pick up her friend.  She also said she was already on probation, and asked if I thought the car was totaled.  I told her she had bigger things to worry about than the car.   ::)

Funny how some memories stick with you so vividly.
1995 FD, 7.0 Liter stroked LS3, T56, 8.8, Samberg kit.

Offline Exidous

Re: Witnessed a bad crash this morning!
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2016, 06:18:22 AM »
Have a very sticky crash memory as well. My grandmother picked my sister and me up from my parents house in the late 80's. She was driving a Bronco II at the time. She had just pulled off the interstate in Bloomington Minnesota. At the end of the off ramp she was sitting at the intersection waiting to pull out. All of a sudden we get rear-ended. An 80's Accord hit the bumper of a Bronco II. No idea what the driver was doing but obvious his attention was elsewhere. The Accord was totaled and the Bronco has a scratch on the bumper. My grandmother still has back issues some 25 years later from that crash. Everyone else was unhurt fortunately.
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Offline freeskier7791

Re: Witnessed a bad crash this morning!
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2016, 12:38:29 PM »
Good on you to stop and help.  That lady is lucky she had such minor injuries good thing she was wearing a seat belt.  I was in a rollover crash in a suburban once (passenger in front seat, friend driving, we were all ok), its pretty surreal
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