This eastbound truck on Highway 59 in Hurricane Utah overcorrected and went through a cement barrier. It rolled over the culvert and ended up facing the opposite direction of travel. The truck would have fallen about 150 feet if it had gone over the cliff. Here are some pics.
One Lucky Guy!!!
- Thread starter rjmax
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XT Utah
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From the looks of the last picture other people have gone off that cliff
Look at the bottom of the gorge.
Scary!
Brett
Meat-Hippy
- Location
- Salt Lake City Utah
Definately lucked out....wouldn't have been fun cleaning up the mess if he went over!
Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
whoa
From the looks of the last picture other people have gone off that cliff
Look at the bottom of the gorge.
Scary!
looks like a bunch of rocks to me
Badger
I am the Brute squad
- Location
- South Salt Lake
From the looks of the last picture other people have gone off that cliff
Look at the bottom of the gorge.
Scary!
i see what looks like a bit of trash that is mostly washout from the culvert itself.
as others have said i don't see how he made it over the culvert without going off
Looks like he slid down the rail until he caught on one of the posts and that may have fliped him down to the side. I can't believe that the guy hanging in the window can stand that close to the side of that drop off. I am guessing that someone is still in there, that's why they are working on him on that side of the truck and not just pulling it up? Looks like they put a "saftey" winch line on the truck to keep it from going off the edge while they work there too.
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CJJ92yj
Registered User
- Location
- Kearnsville
if you look in the third pic it looks like he hit the concrete barrier, then "rode the rail" so to speak over the culvert, then went over the rail and came to a rest somehow. Looks like the uprights for the guardrail are damaged in that fashion. Either way, send that dude to Vegas cause he's one lucky SOB!
*Edit* beat me to it Crinco!
*Edit* beat me to it Crinco!
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XT Utah
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1995zj
I'm addicted
- Location
- Herriman, UT
Jarrod74
OLD IRON!
- Location
- Cedar Hills Utah
What are the yellow things under the truck?
RockMonkey
Suddenly Enthusiastic
Unless there was an eyewitness I doubt anyone would have found him for a long time if he had gone off the cliff. If he survived the fall he probably would have died from exposure. That would have sucked.
1\4elliptic toy
shenanigans!
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- The Dark Side
That is less than a half mile from my house! That corner is hairball as it is. Way beyond lucky..