It was the third picture, wow!
The third one really makes your stomach sort of fall off the edge…
That looks all to much like my close call this summer- the drop wasn’t quite as far,(only about 50 ft straight down) but just as deadly had I gone over-plus I was driving on the right side so I could just see those trees stabbing me through my open window as I flipped down to the creek far below. Grrrr that cost me that Jeep and a bunch of grief but at least it totaled the jerk’s car that hit me. I miss my old Jeep.
How did the truck end up there? I see no broken fence on the truck’s side.
That happened in Mexico. It’s too bad the guy who posted the pics didn’t include the story. The truck was actually coming from the right in the pics, traveling towards the left. He jumped the fence to the right of the culvert, went over the chasm and landed nose first on the left bank, where the truck flipped and landed upright facing the opposite way. Now you understand why that was such a miracle.
Or as Graham Chapman would say, “Looks like a brown trouser job.”
djm
I can’t figure that out either.
The story from the good people at snopes –http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp
According to this article, it happened in Utah, and the guy was probably doing 75 to 80 when he left the road.
Thanks Gonzo. So he did skirt that culvert. That’s what the broken guardrail suggested, but it seemed pretty unlikely.
What is that at the base of the cliff, below the culvert? Looks like another vehicle …
I’d like to see what happens with the culvert on a rainy day. The driver was probably drunk and completely missed the whole adventure.
I used to have dreams (nightmares?) about something very similar to that as a kid.
From the number of rescue men around the car, it is apparent that the driver is still inside the car. The problem is how to get the driver out of the car, as the doors may be jammed from the impact of the crash. The rescue personnel are standing too close to the edge for me to look. Is there a printed story that goes with the photos?
That means this will happen to you some time in your life, probably near the end. That’s how things like this work.
Remember, though, that we can’t pick up on those cosmic eddies easily. Our minds infuse them with symbolism that we can understand. In this case, you never know if it’s really involving a car, or just a similar, albeit smaller-scale, event with, oh, a unicycle or something.
Could be just walking, too. There you are, cruising along one of those college hallways and somebody bumps you . . . the mechanics are just right and next thing you know you’ve gone over the edge of a balcony or down a stairwell.
This happened to someone I know. He went through a plate-glass window first, though. You’d think something like that would break the fall, but it didn’t.
Hm. By this logic, I’ll eventually show up to a college class in my underwear.
Looking forward to it. I’ll be flying by outside the window.
And it means that when I do show up to class in my underwear, I may also get to see Mademoiselle Helmich, my 6th grade French teacher, naked.
do try to work time travel into it Gonzo…
She probably looks a bit older now.