BillArnett
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A few days ago we were coming down Black Bear Pass above Telluride CO and came across this:
We arrived just after the local police had cleared everything up. Apparently the driver of the red Xterra lost control, slammed into the side of a Jeep and ended up like this. If he had been a few yards to the right he would have ended up dead a few hundred yards farther down. As it was, he was able to walk away. Looks to me like the air bag and crumple zones saved his life. The family in the Jeep were stopped eating their lunch. The occupants were taken by helicopter to the hospital. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. Amazingly, the Jeep was still able to be driven down to Telluride. There was an open bottle of some sort of alcohol in the Xterra. But the driver claimed that his brakes failed. The whole story is yet to be determined.
Newspaper article here:
https://durangoherald.com/articles/233105
We've always known that Black Bear is a dangerous trail. But getting clobbered while eating lunch is not something I had previously considered :-(
We arrived just after the local police had cleared everything up. Apparently the driver of the red Xterra lost control, slammed into the side of a Jeep and ended up like this. If he had been a few yards to the right he would have ended up dead a few hundred yards farther down. As it was, he was able to walk away. Looks to me like the air bag and crumple zones saved his life. The family in the Jeep were stopped eating their lunch. The occupants were taken by helicopter to the hospital. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. Amazingly, the Jeep was still able to be driven down to Telluride. There was an open bottle of some sort of alcohol in the Xterra. But the driver claimed that his brakes failed. The whole story is yet to be determined.
Newspaper article here:
https://durangoherald.com/articles/233105
We've always known that Black Bear is a dangerous trail. But getting clobbered while eating lunch is not something I had previously considered :-(