DanR217
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I made the local papers last Wednesday when I look my '89 Integra about 300 feet down a mountain cliff. I don't remember how the accident happened, the last thing I recall was my head hitting the ground out of the open window the first time it rolled.
I landed upside down with my seat belt still on. I released myself from the seat belt and laid in the car for about five minutes regaining the ability to yell for help. I heard a few cars drive by on the country road but was unable to call load enough to grab their attention.
Out of options I began climbing back up towards the road but my heart sank when I came across a barbed wire fence I had plowed through that was laying in such a way as I couldn't cross it. By the Grace Of God my cell phone had been ejected from the vehicle and laid, still on, just before the impassible fence.
I was able to get a hold of a helicopter rescue unit who's members worked hard to extract me from the mountain. They flew me to a local Trauma Unit who have been treating me for the last few days for compression fractures in three of my vertebra, a fractured right shoulder and broken jaw with impacted wisdom tooth.
So now I'm back at my house today, swilling Ensure laced with Narco through my tightly wired shut jaw thanking my lucky stars that I'm alive and sustained no permanent damage.
Pics of the vehicle inbound when I go to pick my property up from the car (which included a brand new fixed blade that may or may not have been ejected from the vehicle and might require a good walk through of the crash site to recover). I don't recall what the car looked like, but the guy at the tow yard was surprised to be talking to me and said its not usually the kind of wreck people walk away from...
My arms and legs still work so the chopponing shall continue! On the same note its gonna take a helluva lot more than falling a few hundred feet off a mountain to keep my Busses out of my hands!
I landed upside down with my seat belt still on. I released myself from the seat belt and laid in the car for about five minutes regaining the ability to yell for help. I heard a few cars drive by on the country road but was unable to call load enough to grab their attention.
Out of options I began climbing back up towards the road but my heart sank when I came across a barbed wire fence I had plowed through that was laying in such a way as I couldn't cross it. By the Grace Of God my cell phone had been ejected from the vehicle and laid, still on, just before the impassible fence.
I was able to get a hold of a helicopter rescue unit who's members worked hard to extract me from the mountain. They flew me to a local Trauma Unit who have been treating me for the last few days for compression fractures in three of my vertebra, a fractured right shoulder and broken jaw with impacted wisdom tooth.
So now I'm back at my house today, swilling Ensure laced with Narco through my tightly wired shut jaw thanking my lucky stars that I'm alive and sustained no permanent damage.
Pics of the vehicle inbound when I go to pick my property up from the car (which included a brand new fixed blade that may or may not have been ejected from the vehicle and might require a good walk through of the crash site to recover). I don't recall what the car looked like, but the guy at the tow yard was surprised to be talking to me and said its not usually the kind of wreck people walk away from...
My arms and legs still work so the chopponing shall continue! On the same note its gonna take a helluva lot more than falling a few hundred feet off a mountain to keep my Busses out of my hands!
