So two weeks ago Mike, John and I drove up to Portage, Wisconsin to go skiing. We left around 7am and the roads weren't very clear; lots of ice and snow. But the Jeep had no trouble, no slipping or sliding or anything. After driving about two and a half hours we were withing a few miles of the exit for Devil's Head. The roads were pretty much completely clear by this point; the farther north we drove, the better they got.
We were approaching an overpass, going about 55-60 miles per hour in the left lane, when the car began to turn sideways. I turned into the slide, but it made no difference. We began to drift off the road into the median, which was a mostly just a wide ditch with one of those low metal railings. There was also another car that was off the road up against the railing.
So we went off the road sideways, with the passenger side facing the original direction we were traveling. We go into the ditch just to the left of the car that is sitting against the railing. The rear passenger side door hits the low railing, causing the car to vault over it, upside down. We basically did something like a barrel roll above the railing and landed on the driver's side. Once the car stopped, it rolled onto the roof, so that we were hanging upside down by our seatbelts.
There's more to the story, but to sum up we were all ok, and I was the only injury; I just smacked my head into my window and got some cuts from broken glass (something I'm used to by this point). There was a lot of blood, but no serious injury. The car was completely totalled.

2 Comments:
Ya, got the story from mike, damn that's screwed up. Glad everyones alright. What are you doing about the ticket you got?
wait, how did you post those pics with blogger? Did you actually have to pay blogger for that?
No, it's free. You just need picasa and hello.
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