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wookster · 08-14-2012, 10:54 AM

I've been in 2 vehicle roll-overs. Once as a passenger and once while driving.

The first one, and worst one, was when I was 17, it was early november, nighttime and about -10 degrees or so outside, was driving my dads old farm truck ('73 GMC) and it didn't have seatbelts in it so I obviously wasn't wearing one, I hit an antelope doing about 55mph and being a bit inexperienced at driving at this age, swerved a bit after I hit it. Went into the ditch, rolled it over twice from what I remember as it was a bit of a blur and woke up laying outside beside the truck. I had my winter jacket, gloves etc in the truck but didn't actually have them on and of course afterwards couldn't find any of them, so I had to walk about a mile and a half to the nearest farm. I was in a bit of shock so I didn't really even feel the cold or any pain, Got to that farm and since I didn't feel any pain just asked them to drive me home even though they were insisting I go to the hospital instead. I finally convinced them to drive me home (about 6 miles from their farm) and I went in and woke my parents to tell them what happened. Of course they were worried and such and my mom looked me over and started to panic somewhat...thats when the shock started to wear off and I started to feel some pain in my leg, I looked down and realized my jeans were ripped from the crotch to my ankles on one leg so I took them off and almost passed out when I saw my leg. I won't go into much detail about it but I could see the bone, and I was losing blood quite rapidly. Then I almost passed out again, and my parents rushed me to the hospital...a 20 mile trip to the nearest one. That one was probably my closed brush with death, how I managed to walk that distance on that leg is still beyond me. Probably the closest I came to dying.

The other one happened a year later and I was a passenger, main difference, we all walked away without a scratch.

08-14-2012, 10:54 AM	#105
wookster Powerplay Quarterback Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: right here of course Exp:	I've been in 2 vehicle roll-overs. Once as a passenger and once while driving. The first one, and worst one, was when I was 17, it was early november, nighttime and about -10 degrees or so outside, was driving my dads old farm truck ('73 GMC) and it didn't have seatbelts in it so I obviously wasn't wearing one, I hit an antelope doing about 55mph and being a bit inexperienced at driving at this age, swerved a bit after I hit it. Went into the ditch, rolled it over twice from what I remember as it was a bit of a blur and woke up laying outside beside the truck. I had my winter jacket, gloves etc in the truck but didn't actually have them on and of course afterwards couldn't find any of them, so I had to walk about a mile and a half to the nearest farm. I was in a bit of shock so I didn't really even feel the cold or any pain, Got to that farm and since I didn't feel any pain just asked them to drive me home even though they were insisting I go to the hospital instead. I finally convinced them to drive me home (about 6 miles from their farm) and I went in and woke my parents to tell them what happened. Of course they were worried and such and my mom looked me over and started to panic somewhat...thats when the shock started to wear off and I started to feel some pain in my leg, I looked down and realized my jeans were ripped from the crotch to my ankles on one leg so I took them off and almost passed out when I saw my leg. I won't go into much detail about it but I could see the bone, and I was losing blood quite rapidly. Then I almost passed out again, and my parents rushed me to the hospital...a 20 mile trip to the nearest one. That one was probably my closed brush with death, how I managed to walk that distance on that leg is still beyond me. Probably the closest I came to dying. The other one happened a year later and I was a passenger, main difference, we all walked away without a scratch.