Bad Crash

[BERNIE MOSFET]

The stolen wallet is hard to believe, but it's sadly true. The guy was pinned in his truck, and in a complete daze. As he related: he remembers trying to push his door open and seeing his arm bend in the middle, then someone rifling through his pockets, and then help arriving and getting loaded onto a helo. At first he thought the guy going through his pockets was trying to help him, but it was several days, maybe a week or so later before he realized his wallet was missing. There really aren't words to express how fucked up that was.

Edit: so as not to completely hijack the thread, OPs pics are hardcore!

[Superwho]

When my Dad was my age (31) he had something similar happen, it was 1960, driving back to the ranch from Houston, big truck veered into his lane, killed his first wife and 1 year old daughter. My dad was in a coma for three weeks, broke almost everything below the waist, had all his teeth knocked out. Woke up to find his family dead and buried. I don't know how he didn't put a bullet in his head then, but I'm glad he didn't. I'm in his shoes now, 31 with a year old daughter, and I can't even imagine going through that.

[talisman]

Damn. That's horrible man.

[helosailor]

cops do it to people every single day

You are an asshole.

[Z06killinsbf]

Damn. That's horrible man.

I agree. I hope no one has to follow in his shoes.

[OreoStang]

Damn that's crazy

[Broncojohnny]

I love old cars. For low speed impacts, you can't beat them. For high speed shit, they're terrifying. Driving my '45 Willys always made me paranoid. I had that steel steering column staring at me with coat hanger spokes on my steering wheel. I knew if I ever got in a halfway decent accident, that column was going right into my chest. That and the fuel tank 1" under my ass.

Good friend of mine in high school had an early 80s Thunderbird. In 1989 he fell asleep and veered off the road, hit a big culvert that he flew across, impacted the far side. Steering wheel and column hit his chest and it killed him. It was a relatively low speed crash, maybe 40 mph.

[SS Junk]

Good friend of mine in high school had an early 80s Thunderbird. In 1989 he fell asleep and veered off the road, hit a big culvert that he flew across, impacted the far side. Steering wheel and column hit his chest and it killed him. It was a relatively low speed crash, maybe 40 mph.

Same thing happened to an ex girlfriend of mine. Driving a small car and was hit head on. It was stated she would survived, however didn't have a seat belt on and the column went through her chest.

[CJ]

Good friend of mine in high school had an early 80s Thunderbird. In 1989 he fell asleep and veered off the road, hit a big culvert that he flew across, impacted the far side. Steering wheel and column hit his chest and it killed him. It was a relatively low speed crash, maybe 40 mph.

General Patton can also attest to this phenomenon.

[YALE]

In old cars, steering columns used to kill people in 20mph crashes. Your aorta can't handle the stress of your heart snapping forward in your chest, so it tears, and you bleed out internally in seconds.

[Big A]

Same thing happened to an ex girlfriend of mine. Driving a small car and was hit head on. It was stated she would survived, however didn't have a seat belt on and the column went through her chest.

That totally sucks, but who doesn't wear a seatbelt nowadays? Perhaps I'm the exception, and not the rule, but all passengers, front and back belt up before we go anywhere.

[CJ]

That totally sucks, but who doesn't wear a seatbelt nowadays? Perhaps I'm the exception, and not the rule, but all passengers, front and back belt up before we go anywhere.

well, for history sake, my Willy's had no seatbelts. (I added belts and a cage later).

[SS Junk]

That totally sucks, but who doesn't wear a seatbelt nowadays? Perhaps I'm the exception, and not the rule, but all passengers, front and back belt up before we go anywhere.

This was back in the late 80's when seat belts weren't mandatory. Remember, I'm old.

[Frank]

Seat belt alone probably wouldn't completely protect you. You'd need to have a shoulder strap too to keep you from slamming into the column.

[SS Junk]

I think most cars, if not all in the 80's had shoulder straps?