Author Topic: Thank God and Seat Belts!!!!! (Read 1433 times)

etat · « **on:** March 18, 2004, 08:01:13 am »

Youngest son of mine went to pick up one of my employees early this morning. Hung the wheel off the right side of the road in some loose gravel and the tires sunk on that side sunk down. Whipped it back, too quick. . Got sideways and started rollin! I'm NOT gonna preach or get mad, he came out with barely a scratch!!!!! Scared though, I'm a hopin he'll learn from it. Liability ins. only as it was an older vechicle. Ugg!!!

Stan · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:50:40 am »

The fuel milage drops off when you roll the whole vehicle rather than just the round parts.

Glad to hear he's ok.

Norm · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2004, 09:12:37 am »

Give em a big hug ck, I think he'll appreciate it.

etat · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2004, 09:32:38 am »

Done did Norm, done did! He hugged me back too.

Corley5 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2004, 09:40:14 am »

Glad to hear he's alright

One lucky young fella

beav · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2004, 09:40:41 am »

good for you for making sure he was in the habit of using his seat belts

the secret with suv's that they suppress is that they roll very easily

their safety is way overrated

J_T · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2004, 09:59:54 am »

Yep you can always get another car . Boys are hard to come by. Thats what I told mine onetime.

beenthere · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2004, 10:03:13 am »

Thankful he is okay. Been through that experience twice with my son, and he is okay too. Lost a nephew in Nov. with a roll-over of Ford Explorer (driver taking off his coat, and rolled it while apparently whipping it back onto the highway), and see that the U-Haul co. won't rent trailers to be towed by the Explorer's. Too many roll-overs are being blamed on the trailers, whereas other SUV's are not having the same instability. Something there, that Ford needs to work on, IMO, as they tried blaming the tires once before.

I don't think all SUV's are equal in that roll-over dept.

EZ · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2004, 03:46:57 pm »

Your right on that, Thank God he's alright.

When I bought my wife a Jeep Cherokee, it had all kinds of stickers on the inside that said caution possible rollover. When we got it home my youngest daughter seen all the stickers and said, I'm not riding in this thing.

EZ

beav · « **Reply #9 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:05:37 pm »

EZ you have one smart daughter

. the rollover thing is simple physics

EZ · « **Reply #10 on:** March 18, 2004, 04:46:25 pm »

That youngin is married now and has a little one. When they bought their new car, she made sure to tell her husband that she wanted it as low to the ground as possible.

Smart daughter, o-ha, she took an I-Q test about 10 years ago and got a 143 on it. And she lets me know about it to this day.

She's a good kid, DanG proud of her.
EZ

beav · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:20:34 pm »

wonder where she got it from

Haytrader · « **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:54:23 pm »

The milk man?

Tom · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2004, 05:59:29 pm »

Sure glad he made it through that one. Scarey when it happens to one of your kids, isn't it.

Frickman · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2004, 06:10:01 pm »

Glad to see the youngin is all right. Saw the same thing happen back before Christmas, but with a car. A young feller flew past the house and when he got to the mill he put the right front wheel into the ditch. Flipped that little Neon on its roof. The young man and his girlfriend were OK, but the car was totalled. Smashed the roof, hood and front fenders. When his dad got there he was all wound up, as the boy had just paid it off. I told him they make more cars everyday, don't get bent out of shape over a hunk of metal. At least the kids were alright. That didn't set too well with him. I hope he's calmed down by now. I thought I'd get to roll it back over with a tractor or the highlift at the mill, but the firemen let the rollback driver do it. I got to fetch sawdust from the mill and sweep off the road.

RMay · « **Reply #15 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:02:08 pm »

glad he's alright I got two teenagers driving :-/

Mark M · « **Reply #16 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:18:01 pm »

That's scary! glad he is OK.

My family and I were in an accident once. Got hit broadside in a minivan. Rolled once and did an end-for-end flip. When it was over we were laying on our side with the 4 kids and my wife hanging from their belts and my mom and I were on the low side still buckled in. My mom was a bit banged up but the rest of us were OK. My tool boxes, cooler, and everything else was spread all over the highway.

Duane_Moore · « **Reply #17 on:** March 18, 2004, 08:28:44 pm »

:-XCk. ya know who was riding with him? Don't ya. God Bless. Duh---Duane

Patty · « **Reply #18 on:** March 19, 2004, 04:20:08 am »

I'm glad your son is fine, CK. My sons are all grown up now, and I still worry about them all the time. I guess that is our job. (one I am very grateful to have, by the way!)

slowzuki · « **Reply #19 on:** March 19, 2004, 07:53:53 am »

Glad to hear you're ok, I think it will buff out

Ken

EZ · « **Reply #20 on:** March 19, 2004, 04:50:59 pm »

I think I just got kick in the teeth, twice.
EZ

J_T · « **Reply #21 on:** March 19, 2004, 08:06:18 pm »

Patty know what you mean I though it would get easer it don't My son is a cop on the night shift in a large city in a bad naborhood . Has a BS from EKU I think he majored in turning my hair grey

Ben shot once allready hate those four in the morning calls .

shopteacher · « **Reply #22 on:** March 20, 2004, 03:31:42 am »

CK: Glad your boy and the worker are both OK. Those seat belts do come in handy once in a while.

Patty · « **Reply #23 on:** March 20, 2004, 04:57:28 am »

JT, yea, I think they pick dangerous professions just to see my new worry wrinkles!

Our oldest son is a Special Investigator for the Air Force. They have kept him out of harms way so far. Some of his fellow agents were sent in to Afghanistan & Iraq, it is very scarey for old mom.
Our younger son drives a car hauler, picking up repossessed cars and wrecks, while getting his Master's degree at night. As if things weren't hard enough for him, they bounced his last two paychecks. Time to find a new job, he says. I couldn't agree more. He is too proud to accept help from his folks, says he is on his own, and will make it on his own. I couldn't be prouder.

AtLast · « **Reply #24 on:** March 20, 2004, 06:00:46 am »

Im sure you let out a BIG sigh of relief knowing HE was ok...like the others said....cars can be replaced....and he indeed learned a valuable set of lessons...
1) what NOT to do in that situation.
2) what happens when you " over react"
3)WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT
4) That his Dad loves him

Kirk_Allen · « **Reply #25 on:** March 20, 2004, 07:21:22 am »

Glad to hear you boys OK.

SEAT BELTS! SEAT BELTS! SEAT BELTS!

Having responded to numerous vehicle extrications I can say that although it does happen, I have never pulled a dead body that was belted in. Serveral that weren't.

God Bless that all are OK. I thank my military background for the seat belt use. They wont let you on base without it. So with a carrer in the AF it just became second nature to wear it ALL the time. Even for that short 3 block trip to the store!

VA-Sawyer · « **Reply #26 on:** March 20, 2004, 06:28:03 pm »

Glad to hear all is OK.
Make that Seat Belt thing a real habit.
I've been known to "buckle up" when moving the Blazer so I can hitch up the mill. Better safe than sorry.
Years ago when I was first teaching aerobatics, I learned an important lesson. It was easier to get into the back seat without having the parachute on, so I would throw it in first, then climb in and start strapping everything on. We were running a little behind schedule, so I had the student start up and taxi out while I was getting strapped in. I got all the straps on the chute done up but got distracted and forgot about the 5 point harness ( improved seatbelt/shoulder strap system like in race cars). The first maneuver I asked for at altitude was a slow roll. The "thud" he felt 1/2 way through the roll was my body falling up against the roof. It was a very slow roll, yet I was flopping like a rag doll in the back. I didn't get hurt, but it really got my attention. I always VISUALLY double checked the chute AND 5 point before the first maneuver after that flight. Parachute straps feel a lot like restraining straps to the body. They both tend to pull down a little on the shoulders and are a little tight around the hips. That was my mistake on this flight, I had buckled up a harness and felt "restrained".
Car rollovers happen a lot faster and are much less smooth than in a plane. I really got in the seat belt habit in my car as well after that flight.
VA-Sawyer

etat · « **Reply #27 on:** March 20, 2004, 07:09:49 pm »

WOW, VA, good thing that plane wasn't a convertible!!!!!!, You just mighta been deploying that there chute!!!!!!

rebocardo · « **Reply #28 on:** March 21, 2004, 09:27:21 am »

I am glad your son made it okay. A lot of kids do not survive these type of accidents because they do not wear the seatbelts. Generally EJECTED=DEATH.

Time to buy him a brand new 1969 Olds or 80s CrownVic :-)

Swede · « **Reply #29 on:** March 21, 2004, 12:56:07 pm »

I´ve told my self not to worry and usaly don´t but seeing that wreck makes me thinking. My son is driving home from Stockholm in a couple of weeks............

; nice to hear You take the accident the right way. ( not quarrel over trifling matters as cars)
Buy him a Volvo or Volkswagen. They don´t roll that easy and I´ve seen some realy wrecked and people coming crawling out of them. (^__^) My sister drove a Mercedes truck, not a small one but not the biggest. A man hit her with a VW Golf. Bouth axles get moved on the truck and som peaces flewed 100 feet. The old man in the Golf came out from his car without help and with just some small cut.

Swede.

etat · « **Reply #30 on:** March 23, 2004, 11:31:20 am »

Goin to Georga to get me a nuther one! Be back tomorrow sometimes. Hold down the fort!!!!!!!

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Author Topic: Thank God and Seat Belts!!!!! (Read 1433 times)

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