Rescue 911

Y’know, I was all gung-ho about Hurley blasting through the trees and foliage in a VW minibus last night. This did not mean that I wanted a couple of kids to do a dramatic re-enactment of it at 2:30 in the morning.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07

Crawford County’s finest showed up en masse to rescue the driver who was trapped in the vehicle. Me, I just wandered around, hoped everyone was OK, wondered what shape my fence was in, and took pictures and video. Don’t know why I did video – you can see it here if you like, just standard accident scene news video. Once a newsie, always a newsie. You saw it here first.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
Sheriff’s deputies search the vehicle after its driver is pulled out.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
The ambulance takes the rescued driver away.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
I kinda gasped when I saw that this tree had been clipped in a big way. I returned to the scene – i.e. walking up my driveway and then about 100 feet due east – to investigate by daylight.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
This looks like where they left the street…

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
…went through the grass…

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
…clipped the tree…

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
…hit a T-post and tore off a bumper…

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
…and took out this whole section of fence. Thankfully we’re not presently running horses on this land.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
Another view of where the SUV flipped over.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
Where these kids lucked out: this section that they went through was barbed wire. At the speed they were going, their vehicle just snapped through it. (And their insurance can pay to replace it.)

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
Why these kids lucked out: a few more feet, and they would’ve had their choice of trees to wrap themselves around, or they could’ve hit the pipe fence, which could easily impale or decaptitate someone at that speed.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
I’ve outlined the big “ranch entrance” gate to show how close all of this is to the house itself (in the foreground).

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
My driveway after nearly every rescue vehicle in Crawford County did a three-point turn in it. I forsee a future involving me, a shovel, and copious back pain.

Car flips near my house, 5-24-07
Xena’s just glad that it’s all over and nobody died. And so am I.

As much as I razz the first responders about the driveway, all of them with the exception of the sheriff’s deputies (who showed up in a squad car) are volunteers, who have to go from home to the fire station and then to the scene. With that in mind, they got here in record time after I made the 911 call.

More excitement than I want at three in the morning.

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  1. 1
    ubikuberalles

    Was alcohol involved? Usually is.

    Hey! Did you think of selling the video to your local TV station? 😀 Too late to sell it now, I’m sure, but it could have worked for the morning news (if you have morning news). I usually see a lot of accident videos in the morning news. Filler space, I guess.

  2. 2
    Earl

    Oh, it could have been any number of things. Like this.

    Debris from car that flipped near my house, 5-24-07

    Or this.

    Debris from car that flipped near my house, 5-24-07

    Or this.

    Debris from car that flipped near my house, 5-24-07

    (The latter two were found by my wife today when she went to look at the fence damage. They’ve already been handed over to the authorities.)

    Man, this is kinda like CSI:PDF.

  3. 3
    ubikuberalles

    What’s that last item? Some kind of Bong or other drug paraphernalia? Looks like a curled up snake.

    What Who song are you gonna play for your new CSI show? Magic Bus? Get it? 🙂 (It’s because the car…um.. and the drugs….never mind…)

  4. 4
    Earl

    The last item was some sort of pipe. Definitely not standard issue, so it’s not like this guy was driving around the countryside looking like Hugh Hefner.

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