Scary: Having your truck roll over a guard rail.
Scarier: Having it land right next to a cliff.
Scariest: The cliff is fricken huge!
According to Snopes, it actually happened.
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I’m sure the person who drove the truck will cherish life a little bit extra after this. 🙂
That’s near Hurricane UT, which is below the cliff. That’s UT 59 at the top of the cliff. I’ve driven that road twice while touring southern Utah (Zion National Park is nearby).
My first and only reaction is:
HOLY SHIT
My first reaction is:
Why is this guy driving? I’m glad I live 2000 miles from Utah so I never meet this guy on the road.
Rick, I live in Utah. I’m sure that every place says this of their drivers, but I swear that we have some of the worst in the world. Fortunately, we don’t have cliffs next to *all* of our roads.
#5 if you did maybe there would be fewer crappy drivers.
#5
Lucky you, this tiny nation is loaded with mountain chains so roads with a steep cliff next to it is a common thing.
This is the thing I feel I grouse about the most…
Why is this guy driving? I’m glad I live 2000 miles from Utah so I never meet this guy on the road.
I’m sure that every place says this of their drivers, but I swear that we have some of the worst in the world.
if you did maybe there would be fewer crappy drivers.
I saw the pictures and I read the Snopes article. There is no information that indicates the driver is a bad driver. Nothing about how the accident happened, who was at fault, if anyone else was involved, anything…
This guy could have been a highly trained professional driver for all I know. Maybe an object in the road punctured a tire and he lost control. Maybe he swerved to miss a child wandering in the road. Maybe a pack of charging bison attacked his truck and diverted his path. I just don’t know why he went through a guard rail at all…
Why should I assume he is a bad driver? Why do you?
You might say that most people on the road are bad drivers. What metrics are you using to make that statement? What is your standard for bad? And even if you could prove it, how can you be assured this guy is a bad driver too?
Everyone sucks at driving, except for the person making the accusation.
Everyone is a bad parent, except for the person making the accusation.
Everyone is poor at math, except for the person making the accusation.
In fact, after reading post after post after post, I just have to assume that i am in the company of the smartest, most talented, most intelligent, most highly skilled people on Earth, and they all just happen to have the time to gather around John C. Dvorak and bitch about what a sorry lot of sad sacks everyone else in the world is….
I guess my point is, I’m somewhat tired of the idea that everyone is a loser, except for the person calling everyone a loser. Don’t you imagine it gets lonely being the only one who is so damn perfect?
Sorry about being such a spoiler about so arbitrary a post, but its just something that has been gnawing at me…
Whoa!
It looks like that culvert has caused a heck of a lot of erosion, there.
For future reference: why toodling around the back roads of Utah, don’t wear a seat belt, wear a parachute.
#9 🙂
For future reference: why toodling around the back roads of Utah, don’t wear a seat belt, wear a parachute.
Now THAT is great advice 🙂
I have seen MANY worse places…
Anyone been in the Gorge in Oregon, and on the OLD road??
#8
I’m completely with you.
Remember the solution to the riddle of the Delphi oracle: “This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless”.
#3 – I completely agree. In NW montana (where im from) i know of several places where the cliffs drop several hundred feet, and they look like this (greener tho)
really sad to think this is the ONLY road that has a steep cliff along it…??
Iv seen MILES along 1 road that would make you MESS you pants…As you climbed up it, on the OLD logging roads ALL you see is the tops of trees or STUMPS, then you look down and THERE AINT NO ROAD for 500-1000 feet.
and you know that if you Meet something coming Down the road….
One of you has to decide WHAT to do…and an 18 wheeler ISNT going to back up….
This pic dont impress me…
What impresses me, is HOW he got around/over that railing, and HOw hard he hard to hit it to either Jump over, or crash thru it..
#8, Don’t you imagine it gets lonely being the only one who is so damn perfect?
Yes. So last week I screwed up on purpose.
#14, kind of makes you think of the Road Runner, Doesn’t it.
I guess close counts in:
Horse Shoes,
Hand Grenades,
and
Cliff Teetering
Maybe Cliff Teetering is a new Xtreme sport.
http://tinyurl.com/3eyyyk
(Goes to photo displaying boat holding small truck from falling down cliff – warning: blinker ad on page may cause epileptic seizures unless that’s an urban legend)
WARNING – The link I left in 16 turns out (if I’m right about this) to have left a “pop behind” ad for a porn site. If I were in a grammar school now, the resulting window would put me in jail for 30 years (at least it would in some incredibly ignorant places).
SN – could you delete that link, please?
I was on my way to Tahoe during ski season once and watched a truck slide off the road and over a steep canyon side. Fortunately for the family in the truck, it landed in a tree about 10 feet down side. It was a tense time waiting for rescue operations to arrive as none of us were equipped or ready to pull them out (without further endangerment.)