Yup... between a Jeep Grand Cherokee, and............................................... .... an 18 wheeler [:-] [:-]

Luckily nobody was hurt, just shaken up alot. I left my work about 4:30 or so to go out on a roadtest in the F-350 diesel I had just fixed. It was my last truck and I was happy to be all done with everything..... friday evening of a 4 day weekend and looking forward to getting out of there a few mins early. So I'm going down the road, a gray Jeep Grand Cherokee is in front of me. This is on a kind of tight windy hilly little road out in the country. We come up to a 4 way stop, the Jeep stops at the stop sign and signals that she's turning left. I'm coming up behind her and she's still stopped, and I always look all around at stops to see who's doing what. To the right I see a big 18 wheeler (full size with the sleeper cab and everything, and a full length flat trailer with a bunch of stuff on it)... he's moving along pretty good, probably about 40 or so, and I could tell by his speed that was was NOT going to stop no way no how. The whole time looking at him I'm just saying to myself.. "he's not stopping... he's definitely not stopping". I really hoped the lady in the Jeep saw him and realized that he wasn't going to stop, but I guess she didn't... she made her turn and I just yelled "[:-] OH ****[:-] !!!" She had almost completed the turn, and the semi just came barreling through the intersection completely blowing the stop sign, and then BAM!!! He tried to swerve and went off in the grass a little bit, but hit her RF corner hard, and ended up taking out pretty much the whole right side of her Jeep. The RF door was sticking out from the body about 3 or 4 inches at the top

So I did the only right thing there was to do... pulled over and got out, ran over and she was getting out of her Jeep. Asked if she was alright and she was fine, and already on the phone with 911. She was shaking BAD though! The truck had kinda swerved across both lanes in front of the Jeep and was stopped kinda halfway in the ditch. Took him about 5 minutes to finally park it, he pulled all the way into the ditch to get off the road. There happened to be an off duty LEO or paramedic or something (he was in uniform... on his way to work I guess. The fire station was literally about 200 ft away from where this happened). So he helped out making sure everyone was alright, then directed traffic until the popo got there. Now there's a kinda funny coincidence here too.... she was still shaking frantically and asked me if I could call her husband. She slowly told me the phone number, and said "his name is Jason... just tell him what happened and that I'm ok". So I do, I tell him where it's at and he says I'll be right there. A couple minutes later I see an orange Neon come hauling down the road and pulls off the road right next to us. I immediatly recognized the car.... it was my co-worker... Jason. Sooo it turns out it was my coworkers wife in the Jeep... weird coincidence!

Anyways, I had to stay and fill out a witness report thing for the popo. They thanked me and said I was free to go, and the lady in the Jeep thanked me for stopping, as did Jason. Ended up getting back to the shop about an hour after I had left, lol. So much for that truck going tonight, haha. He drove the Jeep back to our shop though and parked it in there and we were all looking it over... it took a beating for sure! [sm=owned.gif]

I told her it could have been ALOT worse, had she been going straight instead of turning left. Then it would have been a straight up t-bone in the side of the Jeep... not cool! The guy in the semi said his brakes failed, yet judging from the at least 100ft of skid marks on the road and in the grass... I have a hard time believing that[sm=n

 

I would have had to check my shorts after something like that. glad to hear your co-workers wife is ok.

 

Nice one. Its good to see theres some considerate people like me left in this world.

+1 for you to the big man upstairs

 

You are the king of coincidence. What else happened recently, something when you moved...or something--oh yeah, something about your neighbor also works at the same place as you, forty-five minutes away. I swear there was more than just these two, though.

 

Yup yup... he not my next door neighbor, but lives about a mile or so down on the same road. There's more to that story as well.... I'll get to that in a sec

But yea I think you're right about the weird coincidences... they seem to follow me. Another one was the most recent GAP trip this year. I was going to meet up with a guy named Greg, who lives in Chattanooga, TN since I was gonna be in that area visiting someone else (TennesseeCBRF2 from this forum). Now prior to going up there, I had been at the Dragon on a sunday. The following tuesday I was in Chattanooga, and called Greg to see if he wanted to meet up. I tried calling a couple of times but couldn't get ahold of him so I went on my way. About a week later I get back home to south Florida, and post up my pictures on a bunch of the forums I'm on, including the local ones here that Greg is on as well. He sees my pics, and replies... "Dude, we were standing right next to each other and didn't even know it!". Turns out that sunday (over a week prior) that we were up at the Dragon, he was up there as well with his V-Strom guys. While we were at the overlook taking a break, they had pulled up right behind us. Neither of us knew what each other looked like, so we had no idea. He then posted up a few pics that he took, and sure enough if you look on the right side of the picture, there's my bike sitting right in front of his. I looked through my pics too and I had a few of our group, right as they were pulling up behind us. Small world!

Another one.... GAP trip 2006. I rode solo up to Fontana Village, NC from south Florida. I was meeting my group from sofla there, but we did not travel together. They had left sofla nearly a week before I did because they all were doing a trackday at Barber (Birmingham, AL) the weekend prior. No times were mentioned or anything, just to be at Fontana on the 14th whenever you get there. Keep in mind, I was coming from south floirda, they're coming from birmingham, al. We had no contact with each other after they had left south florida a week or so prior. I get into the area but wasn't quite sure how to get to Fontana Village (it wasn't where I thought it was). So I pulled over to call them but realize I have no cell reception, so I head back to the CROT (the resort at the bottom of the Dragon), which was only a few miles away, to ask somebody since there's tons of people there. I get there, take my gear off and start talking to some guy. Probably only 3 or 4 minutes went buy, and I hadn't even gotten a chance to ask him where Fontana was, when I see the 3 trucks and trailers of the people I'm meeting up with, coming down the hill. I quickly ended the convo with the dude, told him my map just drove by, lol. I caught up to them rather quickly (an F-350 dually diesel towing a big trailer full of bikes and gear through the mountains... wasn't too hard to catch up, hahah), and we all pulled into Fontana together at the exact same time, being 900 miles away from home and having come from 2 completely different directions and no planned times. I think there were a few others too but I can't think of them offhand.

But back to the guy from work.... here's the really fu**ed up part of the story. Many years ago he dated this woman who, several years later after they broke up, was going out with this body builder guy. Apparently they got into a fight one day, and she shot his *** and killed him. She put his body in one of those big water troughs, filled it with cement

 

No pics? Not even from crappy cell phone wannabe camera? lol.

Saw one today. It was a flipping CRAZY shopping day, everywhere was packed, and traffic was insane. Old lady pulled out making a right and was f**king owned by the car who had the green. The humerous part is that an officer (the same motorcycle officer who delt with my crash yesterday) was at the corner gas station, dealing with a minor fender bender. I just remember seeing him look over to the intersection with that "WTF?" expression on his face. We've had a lot of accidents around here lately. Retarded "shop till you crash into someone else's car" people I guess.

 

+1 Jared went somewhere and DIDN'T take pics???!!! haha j/k

 

LOL yea unfortunately no pics just yet... I didn't have my camera with me (I usually keep it in my tank bag, but drove my car to work yesterday), and my cell phone is a cheap piece of crap with no camera. So no pics of the accident scene, but the Jeep is still sitting in our shop, so I can snap a few pics of that at least on monday. Jason took some cell phone pics at the scene though

 

I looked at the thread starter and the subject and I was hoping to see some super mangled vehicles. I mean cmon Mr Pictures you let us all down. =( hahaha

That's crazy glad the lady was OK!

Mike

PS I hate Wisconsin winter.

 

Yea people don't understand physics and that BIG objects in motion can't stop on a dime w/ all that momentium..