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Devils'Advocate · 02-01-2007, 08:31 PM

I don't remember much of this and have pieced together the story from what witnesses told me afterwards....

I was 22 at the time. I was heading out to a friends place... Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistable" was on the radio, which typically made me go slightly over the speed limit. Next thing I remember, I'm waking up in a hospital. That's all I remember. I have 2 hours of blank space.

What I have been told happened is that I drove into an area of road where they had been doing repairs. The shoulder was almost a foot down. I slipped off the shoulder and had the right side tires down on the shoulder, the left tires on the road and the undercarriage scraping the edge. I must have panicked and tried to pull back up on the road. The front tire made it, but the back tire didn't. The whole back axel was ripped right off. The Blazer fell on its side and started rolling laterally down the road. After six complete revolutions, the vehicle landed upside down in the ditch. All the doors were crushed shut, so I scrambled through to the back and jumped out the back window (which was obviously smashed). Apparently I hopped out and asked the witnesses what the hell happened and they were all amazed that I was up and walking around after crawling out of this Blazer crushed all to smithereens.

But like I said, I don't remember any of it. I might as well have been picked up by giant UFO magnet and dropped upside down in the ditch.

In any case, the police told me that had I not been wearing a seatbelt, there is no way I would have been up and walking around after that accident.

02-01-2007, 08:31 PM	#3
Devils'Advocate #1 Goaltender Join Date: Jul 2005 Exp:	I don't remember much of this and have pieced together the story from what witnesses told me afterwards.... I was 22 at the time. I was heading out to a friends place... Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistable" was on the radio, which typically made me go slightly over the speed limit. Next thing I remember, I'm waking up in a hospital. That's all I remember. I have 2 hours of blank space. What I have been told happened is that I drove into an area of road where they had been doing repairs. The shoulder was almost a foot down. I slipped off the shoulder and had the right side tires down on the shoulder, the left tires on the road and the undercarriage scraping the edge. I must have panicked and tried to pull back up on the road. The front tire made it, but the back tire didn't. The whole back axel was ripped right off. The Blazer fell on its side and started rolling laterally down the road. After six complete revolutions, the vehicle landed upside down in the ditch. All the doors were crushed shut, so I scrambled through to the back and jumped out the back window (which was obviously smashed). Apparently I hopped out and asked the witnesses what the hell happened and they were all amazed that I was up and walking around after crawling out of this Blazer crushed all to smithereens. But like I said, I don't remember any of it. I might as well have been picked up by giant UFO magnet and dropped upside down in the ditch. In any case, the police told me that had I not been wearing a seatbelt, there is no way I would have been up and walking around after that accident.