Just wanted to show yall the accident I was in on July 20, 2007. I was driving my brother's truck on our way to Texas (on I-20) from Georgia. The truck was a 2003 Sierra Duramax and we were pulling our 25 ft gooseneck trailer loaded down with about 5,000 pounds of lumber plus some antique tractor equipment and deerstands. We just got into Louisiana on the straightaways. I was just trucking along and some idiot in a green pathfinder tries to change lanes and hit the back of the trailer causing us to fishtail and go off the road to the right. It all happened so fast, I was just trying to get it back on the road so the truck wouldn't go in the trees. If we hit the trees I knew we would all be dead. The trailer started taking out trees 6 to 8 inches in diameter, then finally hit a larger tree and caused us to start flipping. We flipped once with the trailer attached and once the trailer broke loose we flipped again. Luckily I almost had the rig back on the road. By the grace of God, I was the only one hurt. You can see blood all over the place on the inside of the truck. I have a pretty big hole in the top of my head, as you can see in the picture. My brother and bestfriend were passengers, shook up but not hurt. This is a good testimony to always wear seatbelts, because you never know when something like this is going to happen.

 

damn.. sorry that had to happen to you all. glad is everyone is ok and moving on. sucks to see stuff like this happen. Some people just dont know how to drive. most importantly ur all safe and that all that matters.

 

some people are just idiots! glad you and your family made it out safe. looks like it could have been a hell of a lot worse...

 

wow man, that's pretty bad.

Glad to hear you are well!

I was in a nasty roll over last Saturday, I am more than thankful to still be here as well.

 

Glad to hear you're okay. Safety features have improved dramatically over the years, it used to be the case that if you were involved in a rollover you were dead...

any concussions or anything?



-John

 

Bloody carnage, damn . That really sucks, I hope the guy that hit you got his *** arrested.

 

Glad you are ok man did the guy that caused the accident get caught?

 

It was a hit and run. Makes me sick... I'm not sure if I had a concussion. I am a pretty hardheaded guy from what everyone tells me, haha. I think I just passed out for a second. I pretty much remember everything. Spoon, you are right, safety features have gotten a lot better. I hate to think what would happen if I was in a toyota or anything else. Yall have to remember that is a 9,000# truck that came down on that driver side roof. I think the truck held up pretty well.

 

That looks scrary as hell man1 Glad you made it out ok. Looks like your airbag never went off??

 

The truck looks pretty good for going threw what it did, and of course, THANK GOD no-one was hurt too bad......