Thursday, September 16, 2010

What's New At 'Wicked Thoughts'?

Actually something old, but interesting nonetheless:

This goes back a ways but I missed it at the time so maybe many readers here did too. The photo below is of an accident that occurred in Utah on State route 59 near Hurricane city on 30 December, 2006 — in which the driver of 1991 GMC pickup slid off the road onto the right shoulder, overcorrected when he turned back to the left, and crossed over the opposite lane of the highway before crashing though a barrier above a drainage culvert, and coming to rest facing opposite his original direction of travel.


You can see where the 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.
For what its worth Snopes says these photos are authentic.

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