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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Wreck


What happens when a working man on the way home meets a ‘meth user’ in a borrowed car?
I was traveling a stretch of highway that I have traveled twice a day for 18 years but I was not prepared for what was traveling on the other side of the hill at a high rate of speed on the wrong side of the road. All I had time to do was think, “Oh, God help.” He did.
We hit hard on the drivers side spinning my ford ranger out of control, across the highway, through a ditch, up a steep bank, and back into the ditch.
Some of the damage to my vehicle:
* both air bags deployed
* the radio separated in the dash flying to the back of the cab
* windshield broke
* drivers front wheel brake and steering was ripped from the truck
* drivers door was ripped from the body at the lower door hinge
* crushed the extended cab lower quarter
* tore the rear tire from a badly damaged left rear wheel

The other vehicle had similar damage. The driver and passenger were both arrested. The high-on-drugs (authority's description) driver said he must have blacked-out and did not know what happened; however, the passenger was alert enough that he tried to hide the digital scales and drugs.

Thank God, seat belts, and air bags we survived with no serious injuries!

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