2000 Rally of the Voyaguers, northern Ontario, Canada. Rallyracing drowsy from being up all night working on servicecrew van. We go off on a fast right and launch over a ravine, smack the lip of far side of ravine and go airborne again, thru some tree branches and wack, ...smack a tree several feet off ground that doesn't budge. Feel bones break in my torso and thinking I just broke my back. Car falls to ground. We both confirm to each other we are still alive and I open my door. Despite some pain, able to get out and walk so know my back isn't broken. Find out its all my ribs.
Photo taken from road by emergency crew. You can see part of the ravine in between road and car.
Next day, drive all the way home to DC eating painkillers like skittles.
Thats going to leave a mark....
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Re: Thats going to leave a mark....
I broke 1 rib once. it hurt. a lot.
glad it was one you could [mostly] walk away from.
glad it was one you could [mostly] walk away from.
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DUDE!!! Glad you are alive. I hope everything mends fast. Take it easy.
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Re: Thats going to leave a mark....
Glad to hear your alive!prorallycodriver wrote:Feel bones break in my torso and thinking I just broke my back.
Find out its all my ribs.
Just the recount had my hair on end.
I suspect this will take a while to mend.
Hope the pain will dininish quickly.
I am reminded of a buddy who ruptured his sternum in an accident and contracted broncitus in the hospital.
He claimed each cough was excrutiating pain again and again and again.
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Re: Thats going to leave a mark....
It's from the 2000 rally, so I hope it's mended already!sirwilliam wrote:DUDE!!! Glad you are alive. I hope everything mends fast. Take it easy.
Damn Dave, that looks like it was not a fun way to come back to DC! Does look like a hell of a ride though!
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Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
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Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
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haha...This morning I am pretty out of it....reading > me.Sabre wrote:It's from the 2000 rally, so I hope it's mended already!sirwilliam wrote:DUDE!!! Glad you are alive. I hope everything mends fast. Take it easy.
Damn Dave, that looks like it was not a fun way to come back to DC! Does look like a hell of a ride though!
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Re: Thats going to leave a mark....
No worries
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Re: Thats going to leave a mark....
Yeah, I'd recovered from that for the most part. The guy who took the pic just sent it to me yesterday so thought I'd retell the story.
But..., I'm still paying for it. Caught pneumonia in November at a Canadian rally. Did the recce in a car w/o a heatercore and then worked the rally outdoors on a frigid day. The coughing pulled rib cartilage and muscle in my right side in December and then my left side last week. Perhaps wouldn't have happened w/o my prior rib injuries (I also did my sternum a different time).
So thanks for the get well wishes anyway. Still need them.
But..., I'm still paying for it. Caught pneumonia in November at a Canadian rally. Did the recce in a car w/o a heatercore and then worked the rally outdoors on a frigid day. The coughing pulled rib cartilage and muscle in my right side in December and then my left side last week. Perhaps wouldn't have happened w/o my prior rib injuries (I also did my sternum a different time).
So thanks for the get well wishes anyway. Still need them.