Sunday, January 18, 2015

Crushed between two semi-trailers

Mr Whitby’s amazing survival was captured in a photo showing his mangled four-wheel-drive crushed like a pancake between two trucks on an icy highway in the state’s northeast.

“Thank God that I’m still alive,” Mr Whitby told the Oregonian. “Now I’ve got to go figure out why.”
 
“I just braced and hoped that everything would be all right,” the father-of-one said, adding that he starting praying as the truck was seconds from smashing into him.

18 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I cried because I was crushed between two semi-trailers until I met a woman who was torn between two lovers.

AllenS said...

Mr Whitby told the Oregonian. “Now I’ve got to go figure out why.”

Yours is not to question why, but to try and figure out how much beer you need.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

There goes the safety argument for those things.

ricpic said...

"Why was I born? Why am I living?"

"Ah Shaddup!"

chickelit said...

Sometimes your own arguments can be crushed between two big loads of facts and yet you live to argue another day.

What time does the big game start today?

AllenS said...

2 pm central time

I'm Full of Soup said...

Yikes - lucky guy.

Synova said...

Wow.

As for the safety thing... I think that most of the strength in a vehicle (and most of the crash tests) assume that high energy crashes will be sort of head-on. And two semi's sort of hits the upper boundaries of mass as well.

Rabel said...

That's what Aaron will feel like by the fourth quarter.

Unknown said...

I feel nervous on the highway when I find myself in-between 2 large semi-trucks.

Now I know why. yikes.

Rabel said...

There I sit smashed between Synova and April. I kind of like it.

Unknown said...

Careful - after squishing come tickling.

Rabel said...

I may need to withdraw my Arron Rogers comment.

Rabel said...

Well, garsh. Wasn't that something.

Be strong, Wisconsin. You're not alone.

Unknown said...

Anthem to Green Bay &... (idea from Vodka Pundit)

And it's too late baby, now it's too late.. Though we really did try to make it... Something inside has died and I can't hide it
And I just can't fake it
Oh, no no no no
(No no no no)


Rabel said...

Kerry is at the Patriots game. In the owner's box. Don't know if he brought JT along. Doesn't look like he'll need him.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Seahawks got lucky at the final minutes of the game.

Methadras said...

Luckiest man alive I think. Buy some lottery tickets!!!