my first explorer R.I.P

[skillz105]

these pics are like a year old but I walked away unharmed so I wanted to share them


this was im first explorer it was a 93 sport me doing a motor swap

got it out

4 months later it hydroplaned in a bad storm and rolled over

I bouncd back and got another one a week later and it the one i have now all I can say it buckle up

 

[skillz105]

sorry for the typo's my laptop keys stick

 

[wood1]

Buddy that was a hard way to learn to slow down when the road conditions are bad, glad you walked away. Fortunately it's not the kind of mistake you repeat. Drive safely.

 

[mr cribb]

Glad you walked away unhurt... You can't drive like a bat outta hell in bad weather man... you get results like what you went through.

 

[skillz105]

thanks guys but the thing is I wasn't driving fast I was coming down a hill and a newly paved road and just hit a low spot where water was just sitting plus it didnt make it any better that my tires need to be changed.

 

[mr cribb]

thanks guys but the thing is I wasn't driving fast I was coming down a hill and a newly paved road and just hit a low spot where water was just sitting plus it didnt make it any better that my tires need to be changed.

Yeah fresh asphalt, standing water, and crappy tires will do it..... I had a similar effect in my old escort... I had $#!tty tires on it driving too fast in the rain and almost hydroplaned.... fortunately I was able to control mine.

 

[Currency]

1) Glad you walked away.
2) Glad you have another explorer

My opinion of explorer are they are pretty safe vehicles, I slid off the road sometime last year and too was lucky. Have seen explorer's that have been rolled in junk yards, drivers always walked away. Good reason to wear seat belts.

In the photo you appear to be young, I myself am 27 but my driving style has changed since I purchased my explorer. But I still sometimes push the explorer more than I should, reason why I slid off the road and literally ramped down a 20 plus foot embankment.

Water can be a bad thing, wet roads or flooding. I have been debating installing a snorkel on my explorer for a while since I just about lost it crossing a flooded road. Believe the problem was the 1/4 tank of gas with water near the windows. I didn't think it was that deep but a subaru legacy or outback had made it twenty minutes before I went.

Just be careful in the rain and watch for flooded roadways, also don't forget the seat belts.

 

[skillz105]

thanks and oh yeah it kept me safe and I thought since it did, the least I can do is buy another one. I've learned my lesson and I don't even take the same route to work anymore, yea at the time I was 19 I'm 20 now. I've learned early to slow down and plus I found out I save a little on gas when I'm not speeding and I'm trying to lose this X

 

[92exp4x4]

Very glad you were not hurt. Everyone learns valuable lessons at this age, and I'm sure you have by now as well.

I had a similar accident in my first explorer, it was a 2 door as well. I was accelerating onto the freeway. It had just started to sleet and snow like a minute before; after it had snowed earlier that the day. I was doing about 50-55 MPH when I got into the patch of snow that forms between the enterance lane and the lanes of travel. The lanes were dry and cleared, and I was looking in the mirror for traffic and didn't realize the icy mess the tires were getting into.

Before I knew it the rear end was trying to be the front and I over corrected, spun around, slid across all 3 lanes through a hole in the traffic no bigger than the Ex and wound up on the passenger side in the median.

The real kicker for me was I had fallen out of the habit of using my seatbelt about a year before, I was about 19 at the time. For whatever reason, and I don't know why I put it on when I left the gas station literally 3 minutes before the wreck. I have worn it religiously ever since.

 

[Currency]

That would have been one insane moment. Glad you had your seat belt on.

Something I have not thought about for sometime is a wreck I stumbled upon just months ago. Was taking the boy to Mc D's for a nugget happy meal.
Oddly enough this guy is/was my little ones mother's cousin.

He had not been wearing his seat belt when he over corrected on the highway which had to of happened less then a minute or two before I stopped.

His blazer had hit a rock cutout on the side of the highway at near highway speeds. The blazer flipped and he was throw out the window, the blazer's engine/hood area landed in the area of his upper back and head. He was bloody but alive, had a fist size hole showing his spine with no blood in the near area.
My three year old was upset because he was left in the explorer for around 8 minutes while I held this guys hand until EMS and fire rescue made me move out of their way.

The guy lived for a few days after being air lifted from the area of the highway to a major medical facility that could better handle his condition. His mother decided he had enough when doctors could not stop some internal bleeding that showed a few days after the accident and pulled the plug. His life was over and he was not even 30 years old.

Now after hearing this true, horror, story I am positive he could have walked away if he was wearing his seat belt since I seen the accident and his blazer looked no worse than the images of the explorer above but had more front end damage.

At the moment the only thing that could be done was to comfort this guy, knowing he squeezed my hand as I was hold his had to of been comforting than not knowing twenty some odd other people just stood around including one nurse on her way to work.

 

[skillz105]

Man sorry to hear that yea 2 week prior to my wreck I had got a seat belt ticket and sicne the ticket iv been buckling up so I would say that ticket saved me from getting badly hurt and now when I have someone riding with me I even tell them to buckle up

 

[mr cribb]

Being in the army it's a requirement to wear seatbelts. In fact if I was to die in a car accident and I was NOT wearing my seatbelt my life insurance WOULDN'T pay. So to make thing easier for the sake of freak accidents I wear mine.

On another hand, my wife has a hard time wearing one, because by not wearing one, she is still alive. It was a foggy morning, and she'd stopped at a corner store to get a coke. She simply forgot to put it back on after getting in the car. At a traffic light her light turned green, and she made it halfway into the intersection and got T-boned in the drivers door by a silverado at 65mph. The driver couldn't see the light for the fog. Fortunately my wife was driving a Dodge Mirada (all steel car), and that saved her life. She was in a wheelchair for a year, and after numerous physical therapy visits, was able to walk again.

I have to fuss at her sometimes to wear it, but I do understand why it's a struggle for her. Long story short, I guess it can go either way, but for the most part seatbelts do save lives. However, if it's your time to go, seatbelt or not, it's your time to go.

 

[mrvh]

Any time you walk away unharmed (that is the only way to doit), be thankful. You can always replace the car. :

 

[92exp4x4]

However, if it's your time to go, seatbelt or not, it's your time to go.

This really is the only truth. There are stories that go both ways on this subject, but you sum it up very well.

My buddy's uncle was strangled by his own seatbelt he was wearing when his chevy pickup got T-boned and ripped in two by a speeding car that ran through a stop sign (80+ MPH). Apparently he passed out before he could free the belt and by the time anyone responded he was gone.

 

[SHARK X]

odds are in your favor with the belt on though