I posted this on my rock crawler club forum but wanted to show it here. I should have a while back but don't like talking about it. I'll say this, live life to the fullest and never do anything you'll regret!

It starts with a call coming on my radio around 6am April 17th 2007. I didn't want to go but my GF, now wife, said I should go since it was close by. I grabbed my gear and was out the door. When I rounded a curve where numerous wrecks have taken place because of a bad section of Arkansas roads, I saw bright yellow and knew then I was my mother. It was a tore up crumpled can that looked like nobody made it but this was my mom so I couldn't think that, could I? I was the second there, my chief said "get your gear on", I walked back, and fell to my knees, I lost it but I couldn't, I had a job to do. It took us 2hrs to get her out. To this day it bothers me and I worry about everything.








This is a pic of the paper so it's not very clear to start with.


A Tyson Tractor trailer driver fell a sleep, ran off the road and over corrected. The husband/wife team never went to her side they were safe and inside the truck the whole time! Great for them, my mom was in a crumpled can hoping it wouldn't burn up. When I got there I knew the battery was in half because I saw it.

The news choppers came thinking there was a fatality! I'll say this, the passenger A-pillar and roof broke the seat digging into it. A passenger would have been a DOA. Now I'll say this, my moms been here for 5 more years, she's just great! Fractured the top 2 vertabre and a cut on the head, was off work for a long while but she's here today! The trucks are built great, for that I drive a '08 Dodge hemi Ram quadcab! Now,was it luck, was it the truck, reflexes she turned left and not right, the bible in the glovebox, or preacher who came from across the street? Maybe them all? Who knows but feel a little safer in them at least. There's a pic of a head on combined 110mph crash.

 

Wow, glad she's ok man.

 

That's amazing anyone made it through that alive. I see stuff like this all the time and it still amazes me. I've seen people get killed in MVA's so minor you can barely tell there was an accident. Then again, I've seen people walk away from mangled messes you couldn't even tell were vehicles. Glad to hear your mom made it through..

 

im speechless! glad your mom is ok, shes lucky to be alive, and lucky to have a son like you, to hold it together to get her out safely!

i had a cousin back in 05 get into a head-on with a tree, he was a DOA, and his girlfriend was in the hospital for over 7 months.

i will always drive a dodge truck, for the rest of my days, they are the toughest built truck(IMO) out there.

 

I loved that yellow Ram! I put the wheels on it for her. I'm a Fire Fighter, went to the fire academy back in '09. I don't do that anymore, I build totaled semis for a living. My wife is a RN. I saw too many bad things happen. I saw a 21 old guy jump out of a car because he was fighting with his gf. I saw my buddies wreck on tv at a local Chilli's while on a double date with my now wife. He was racing in town, car clipped him and he hit a house at 80+. He was 21 his gf 16. I carried his casket a week before my wedding. So I build wreck big rigs. The pays good and I enjoy it.

 

I am gald your mother survived. It is amazing considering the condition of the truck.

One of my son's is a volunteer firefighter and my other son and a step son are each sheriff's deputies in different places. I know they have each seen things that a father hopes his children (I know, they are all in their 30's - but still) have to see. I have seen far too many tragedies. But every fatal wreck is someone's loved one.

Life is short. Too short. But it aggraates me that the driver team in that truck were not concerned enough to attempt to help. They should have been charged for failing to render aid or something.

 

Wow truely amazing man ! God sure does amazing things !

 

+1
Glad to hear she is OK !

 

I don't even know what to say. Thank God every day for the life He gives us.

 

Since you mentioned the wheels, I can't believe the wheels and tires made it also.