Gary -
Incredible story. Must make you thankful to be alive and for what you have.
Sort of seems like the stories we all know of guys being in battle
and surviving.
Thanks for that!
Alan
'52 A90
'53 BN1
'59 Jag Mk IX
'64 BJ8
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:59 PM, <Editorgary@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 5/10/10 7:30:24 PM, healeys-request@autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
> > Have you ever rolled a car?
> > I have. I flipped an MGB and landed upside down about 15 feet below road
> > level. I was wearing a ( lap and shoulder ) seatbelt with no roll bar
> > and,
> > while I know all accidents are different and one solution doesn't suit
> all
> > circumstances, all I could see was a blur of spinning leaves and my life
> > flashing before my eyes. The forces acting on me did not allow for me to
> > do
> > anything except go for the ride. I wound up suspended above the ground,
> > tangled up in the seatbelt. Just dumb luck, I figure.
> > I'm not saying that hugging the passenger seat while wearing a seatbelt,
> > isn't
> > an option in some cases though. I did just that
> >
>
> Did the same thing on Friday October 13, 1972 (you won't wonder why I
> remember the date.) Early snow in Nova Scotia, and my first wife and I were
> driving our Datsun 2000 home from holiday towards New York. About noon,
> coming
> up
> towards an overpass, we were t-boned by a young driver who had his license
> for only three days, sliding out of control on the "bridges freeze first"
> ice. Knocked us over the embankment, and we rolled two and a half times
> before
> coming to rest upside down. As the car started to go over the first time,
> all i could remember was thinking about all the effort I'd put in up to
> that
> point in my life wasted in an instant.
> At the end of it, my wife found herself hanging upside down, me unconscious
> next to her (having knocked my head on the steering wheel), so she reached
> over and started beeping the horn, then looked at me and realized I still
> had my pipe in my mouth, so she removed that, thinking it would be silly of
> them to find me dead with my pipe in my mouth (shock does strange things to
> your mind). Once the handy Canadian road crew working nearby had rolled the
> car over (by hand -- how many guys does that take?) they got me out, and I
> came to as they were loading me into the ambulance.
> Net result: one very totalled 1969 Datsun 2000, and lots of seat belt
> bruises and sore muscles on both of us. Score two for seat belts, even in
> roadsters with no roll bars.
> Now I even put my belt on in the shuttle van going to the remote airport
> parking lot.
>
> Cheers
> Gary
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