Nothing like a little alcohol, a downhill merge, fresh rain, a big ass tree, and butt load of luck! He walked away, was a .08 BAC and got to spend a few hours in the pokey. Tried to merge downhill after the light turned green, rear fishtailed, went sideways across oncoming traffic, jumped the curb, hit that tree in the center of the drivers door, then it somehow went onto the drivers side where it skidded back out into the street before falling onto the roof and skidding to a stop. He then got out and started pulling debri out of the road. Watch that beer intake!
That's one lucky motherfucker! My friend just rolled here explorer also drunk. Busted her jaw and they used the jaws o life to get her ass out. Keep the rubber side down yall.
wow... glad hes ok, i bet he'll think again next time he goes out driving after drinking. "started picking up", if it was me i would have scratched my tags off, grabbed my plates, and dipped into the woods! lol
i rolled a car. going way too fast...how fast it doesnt matter. went through the gaurdrail and rolled 2 1/2 times down an embankment all four in the car walked away with nothing more than tiny scrapes. all were wearing seatbelts and to this day speeding scares me. the scariest part was that i put three other peoples lives in danger. thankfully hes ok, and hopefully he learns some kind of lesson.
Lucky guy. Hard to feel sorry for him. I almost lost one of my best friends this past summer when he was hit on his '65 Ironhead sportster by a drunk driver. Hopefully he can turn this unfortuante incident into a positive one by learning his lesson.
The more I drive hot rods, the more unbelieveable it becomes to me that people can actually get into car accidents in late models. You don't even hafta drive the cars...they drive themselves, and still people crack 'em up. He sure was lucky. Hope he learns his leason, unlike the prick in my town that just went on trial for his 15th DWI....
Obviously you've never driven a late model Vette in the rain! "Handfull" is a major understatement... it's like a regular car in the snow. The slightest bit too much throttle and they'll go right around in a ring, even when you're not drunk.
Don't wanna get into a pissing match, and I haven't ever driven a late model Vette even in good weather (I don't really get into Tupperware ...sorry Vette guys..my little joke at your expense), but my daily is a '95 Fleetwood with an LT1 vette mill...17"rims with Z rated tires...they do the same shit in the rain...handle like ass...but I've never flipped mine. He was dumb. End of story.
Sorry, but, in this day and age, is there really any excuse for drinking and driving? Maybe we need 72 more public awareness campaigns to enlighten people to the dangers...
I bought a wrecked, uh, rolled Vette to rebuild once. Everything was just fine until I pulled the remaining T top out of it's place and a gob of someones hair fell out with it.
If he was lucky he wouldn't have rolled his damn car. That's kinda like when my grandmother goes to a funeral and comes home talking about how good the deceased looked. WTF? How good can a dead person really look? Every one I ever saw looked like shit. Anyway, I don't feel sorry for the guy at all - probably do owe him a "thank you" for taking out a teal Corvette though. Q - Who would ever buy a teal Corvette? A - A drunk. JH
That's the very attitude that causes them to be wrecked so much. People forget that they are controlling 1.5 tons + going down the road. There's no understanding of inertia anymore. With ABS and passive restraint systems and "traction control" and crumple zones, we get a false sense of security that allows us to leave our common sense at home instead of carrying it in the car. Instead, we bring our cell phones. That's one of the reasons I don't like to drive a late model... I'm too disconnected from the car. Even behind the wheel I feel more like a passenger than a driver.... makes it too easy to get drowsy (which is argualbly the same as drunk.) Glad your friend wasn't hurt, but I hope he learned from his mistake. Few do.
big meats, lots o'power, a little rain, slick roads and a some points on the ol'BAC. just sit back and watch the party commence. glad to see he is ok. A friend of mine flipped his truck 3 months before he was supposed to graduate from the Maritime Academey. "Luckily" his attorney was able to save his ass, he only had his unlimited engineers liscence suspended as the conviction came down after he graduated and passed his 3rd's. Had he been convicted while still a student he would have basically had his liscence suspended indefinately. not to bright, eh? (this is all fall out from that little incident called the exxon valdez) eech!
All I know is the older I get, the scarier this kind of shit is. I don't want me or any of my family to die at the hands of a drunk driver. What a dipshit.
Sad part is within a year he'll probably wreck another one. Maybe take someone down with him next time. Drunk drivers usually don't learn. Wait about a week or 2 until he gets over this then knock him on his ass with a 2X4 and remind him how stupid this was... Repeat as necessary. Drunk drivers are the kind of people who just keep sticking their hand on the stove to see if it's hot. Even when they see the glow. You can't blame this on the tires, the car, the road or the conditions. If he'd been sober he would have adjusted to conditions. But in his mind, it'll turn out to be something else that caused this. Never his own stupidity....
the worst part is that the guy towing the car is doing a rollover recovery WRONG! not to be a dick but i am in the towing biz, and that guy is definately inexperienced at rollovers!!! sorry to highjack the thread..lol
i'm glad he made it out alive. hopefully he will learn from it... my brother has been in a chair for 8 years because of some drunk idiot... the drunk isnt always the only victim of his ignorance! laws are not tough enough for DWI. PERIOD!
Too bad that wreck didn't do enough damage to keep him in the hospital contemplating how stupid he was.... Hopefully the damage to the car was enough to knock some sence into his dumb ass.
Hey Fidget man, I'm glad your boy is alright. The pictures were something else, at least it wasn't a '57 or something. That said, I know .08 is only about a beer or so, but like has been said on here already, DWI, no fuckin' excuse. Living in New Mexico, the land of DWI, I have first hand experience more than once. I have lost multiple friends who have died in DWI accidents, both their fault and the other drivers fault, and ther is still no excuse. If you drink and drive, you deserve what you get. I'm sorry, not trying to sound hard, just how I feel.
Ahhhh, insurance companies love a drunk in a Corvette! When he goes to insure his new bicycle and has to get a loan for the premiums he will become a member of AA real fast...
Oh come on guys. I'm currently driving a "late-model Vette" and my previous car was a '94 Fleetwood (same as the 95). Neither are really tricky in the rain. If you don't drive like a shithead, bad things generally don't happen. And if they do, they're usually not your fault. As for the guy who flipped his Vette--lucky dude. And impressive in a way. It isn't easy to flip something that sits as low as a Vette. Just keep it safe.
Geez,I wonder how many of you guy's kickin' at this Vette driver,have and do or are drivin' after a few brews,or more than a few.It's easy to kick 'em when they're down. At DUI school they tell you straight up that easily 75% of drivers today have and do regularly drink and drive.Put that statistic in your pipe and smoke it. Kickin' a guy over a DUI is kinda like bein' a closet queer,It's seems like the popular thing to do til you get outed. Just my .02 T.OUT
Slide, You hit the mail on the head. We're becoming more like passsengers every model year. And every year the lawyers dream up new excuses for thier clients not owning up to the responsibility of operating these new "wonder" vehicles. Frank
HAHAHAHAHA!! That's Patrick, he's so damn dumb it's incredible. The worst part is, he's the smartest one working for that tow company! Never stand down wind of him either (pew!). He is lucky to be alive. He's 39, and only has a speeding ticket on his record. Owns vintage motorcycles, that Vette, and a station wagon. Trust me, I've let him know how lucky he was. He was the first to admit how stupid and irresponsible he was. I haven't 2x4'd him upside the head yet, but that's a definate possibility.
Ha HA, you're right.... a friend of mine rolled his pickup into a ditch, was a little buzzed, but the cops were gonna let him walk. He saw how the guy was gonna roll the truck back over and do more damage than he did in the first place. Started yellin' and gettin on the tow truck driver tellin' him what an idiot he was...got so piised at the guy that the cops finally had to take him away, cost him a night in jail; the guy still ruined his truck when he pulled it back over
Defending a guy for driving drunk is almost as dumbassed as being the one driving drunk. I find it hard to believe that 75% of the population drives drunk. If they do, at least I know that I am firmly planted in the 25%. Not drinking in the first place helps out with that though. Whenever my mother in law wanted something as a kid, her mom would always say," Save your money, don't drink." All my drinking money goes into my cars. I like my hot rod better than any cheap beer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some tea totaler. I just have a brain in my head that I actually use from time to time.
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