- Location
- Morrison, CO
My wife was on call for the weekend and ended up having to in, while it was snowing pretty good (ended up with around 16" at the house). The plows were doing their usual crappy job, so it was slick.
Speed limit is 50mph where she was at, but she was only doing about 35mph or so (she's paranoid about going too fast in a lifted truck, let alone going fast during inclement weather, so I tend to believe her) when the truck started to fishtail in a turn. She said she was pointed at the right guard rail, which atop a 30' ravine with a creek at the bottom (where others have punched through and landed at the bottom) and she panicked. Steering hard left, I'm assuming a massive over-correction, she gave it gas (in 4Hi), she gained traction, the truck spun around to the left, she hit the brakes and pounded the hell out of the concrete divider in the middle of the highway.
Of course, since she's the nurse on duty for the emergency calls for the weekend, she got the thing straightened out and kept going to work.
This is what I see when she gets home.
I'm thinking the frame may be OK, but the core support is pushed back (from what I can tell, I can't get the hood open without extreme measures and the insurance company hasn't seen it yet, so I'm not doing that), the inner fender is pushed back (hoping it buckled and didn't push the firewall back), the outer fender is shoved back (but it's buckled, barely missing the door), the body mount is tilted back at the forward most position on the left and the Shrock is tilted back. The bumper sheered two of the grade 8 bolts, hitting the hood, etc., and took the brunt of the hit. I'm thinking if the stock bumper where there, the airbags may have gone off, but can't say for sure that would have happened.
Here's the damage.
She's OK, that's the important thing. Insurance will figure things out. But this X took a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Although airplanes may try to land on it if the lights are on.
Speed limit is 50mph where she was at, but she was only doing about 35mph or so (she's paranoid about going too fast in a lifted truck, let alone going fast during inclement weather, so I tend to believe her) when the truck started to fishtail in a turn. She said she was pointed at the right guard rail, which atop a 30' ravine with a creek at the bottom (where others have punched through and landed at the bottom) and she panicked. Steering hard left, I'm assuming a massive over-correction, she gave it gas (in 4Hi), she gained traction, the truck spun around to the left, she hit the brakes and pounded the hell out of the concrete divider in the middle of the highway.
Of course, since she's the nurse on duty for the emergency calls for the weekend, she got the thing straightened out and kept going to work.
This is what I see when she gets home.
I'm thinking the frame may be OK, but the core support is pushed back (from what I can tell, I can't get the hood open without extreme measures and the insurance company hasn't seen it yet, so I'm not doing that), the inner fender is pushed back (hoping it buckled and didn't push the firewall back), the outer fender is shoved back (but it's buckled, barely missing the door), the body mount is tilted back at the forward most position on the left and the Shrock is tilted back. The bumper sheered two of the grade 8 bolts, hitting the hood, etc., and took the brunt of the hit. I'm thinking if the stock bumper where there, the airbags may have gone off, but can't say for sure that would have happened.
Here's the damage.
She's OK, that's the important thing. Insurance will figure things out. But this X took a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Although airplanes may try to land on it if the lights are on.
