Thank God and Seat Belts!!!!!

[etat]

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]

The fuel milage drops off when you roll the whole vehicle rather than just the round parts.  : Glad to hear he's ok.

[Norm]

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

[etat]

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

[Corley5]

Glad to hear he's alright 8)  One lucky young fella

[beav]

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]

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

[beenthere]

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]

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]

EZ you have one smart daughter 8). the rollover thing is simple physics :P

[EZ]

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

[beav]

wonder where she got it from

[Haytrader]

The milk man?

 :D

[Tom]

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

[Frickman]

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]

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

[Mark M]

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]

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

[Patty]

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]

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

Ken

[EZ]

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

[J_T]

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

[shopteacher]

CK: Glad your boy and the worker are both OK.  Those seat belts do come in handy once in a while.  8)

[Patty]

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]

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