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Thursday, April 28, 2011


INCIDENTS

Grand Canyon National Park (AZ)
Driver Survives Car’s 200-Foot Plunge Over Rim

On the evening of Monday, April 26th, a visitor reported finding an injured man in the roadway on Desert View Drive near Twin Overlooks on the South Rim. The injured man told the visitor that he had accidently driven his vehicle over the canyon rim. Responding rangers found the reporting party and the driver of the vehicle near Twin Overlooks. The 21-year old male driver told them that he had extricated himself from the car, climbed up to the rim, and flagged down a passing motorist. He was treated at the scene and then taken by ambulance to Flagstaff Medical Center. Rangers found the vehicle about 200 feet below the rim the next morning, lodged against a tree. A plan is being developed to remove it in the near future. An investigation is underway.

If enough people drive vehicles off the south rim one or two are going to survive.

Reminds me of the old story from WW2 where a heavy bomber flying over the Alps starts falling apart. Everyone gets out except for the tail gunner. The plane is on fire but he doesn't have a parachute. Preferring a quick death he jumps. As it happens he falls on the near-vertical face of a glacier and slides down the slope. he ends up in a pile of snow with a broken ankle. Very lucky.

Drop enough people and one or two get the super-special winning lottery ticket.

Drove over...?