Has anyone here been in a roll over accident? What's it like? What are you thinking as it happens? What was the cause of your roll over?

Last night I saw a car on its roof. The man and woman who had been in the car were sitting on the guardrail, the man was talking to a cop and the woman was holding her baby and staring straight ahead like some kind of zombie. I think they were waiting for the ambulance. Traffic in both directions on the LIE came to a stand still.


I've had two emails and yes, I removed my thread on "break-ins". Last night at about 11.45 Spock posted a rather unpleasant message on the thread, so rather than take the thread in a ugly direction, I deleted it, sorry.

What was I thinking?? Oh shi.................

All in all it was an interesting experience. Probably took mere seconds, felt like it took 30 + seconds to roll onto the roof. Everything went into slo-mo, the car rolled with my side up and it seemed to hang there forever before ever so slowly rolling onto the roof. I could actually hear the pressure building in the windshield prior to the glass breaking, at the same time I could hear the siren as it ground to a standstill in the dirt. When we stopped rolling we were hanging upsidedown in our seatbelts...and here is a tip...do not cut or try to unbuckle your seat belt until you have completely braced yourself. It is a much longer drop to the roof than it seems, don't ask me how I know.

We got lucky too because the cage acted like a rollbar, which kept the roof from collapsing in the middle. The shotgun took the brunt of the weight and that kept the front edge of the roof from collapsing.

What caused the roll, well partner got into a slide, partner decided to touch the brakes which put us into a full spin. The car left the road and encountered a berm, which we just happened to impact going sideways and inertia did the rest.

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Yeah I've been in one. We were going to pass a truck and for some reason the truck veered into our lane. The driver braked, lost control, and went up on the median. Turned turtle but we were all wearing seatbelts. I was 16 then. I thank my mom for being such a prude about wearing seatbelts.

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I was in one about 30 years ago: We were coming down after night skiing. We were in an ‘80s iteration Bronco, me in back stretched out on one side, 3 pairs of skis, boots, poles, and clothes on the other. There was a window with a gun rack to my left. The driver spun a little and drove the passenger set of wheels up a hill made of ice and snow, the Bronco went on its side. The driver had the passenger land on him, I was flipped onto the gun rack, the ski gear flipped onto me. No doubt a good thing the gun rack was there. Whole thing took a couple of seconds. It took about 10 minutes to disentangle everyone. Took me 2 weeks before my neck worked properly.

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PaulC, Have a good one! Bye.