A well-armed car wreck...

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Well, Sunday night I was headed back to work in Snyder, TX. I was about 15 minutes away from my hotel when I fell asleep and ran off the road, through a fence and into a dry creekbed under a bridge... at 75 MPH. Fun times.

Having my surefire 9P in my pocket certainly contributed to my survival. It was still right where I had left it. Having it also helped me find my two cell phones and then pcik my way out of the vehicle, through the brush and to the one spot where I could make it up the hill in my injured state.

Having that light let me flag down the first responder who was a sherriff out of Roby, Texas. Minutes later as EMS is stabilizing me for a FlightforLife to Lubbock I got the original sherriff's attention. I told him I had a few items in my vehicle that needed to be preserved if at all possible. I told him I had a laptop and described its bag. Next, I told him I had a few guns and some ammo. That didn't bother him too much so he asked if I could be more specific.

As I told him make model and caliber for the four firearms I was transporting I could watch his face go from :scrutiny: to :uhoh: . When I mentioned the 2500+ rounds of ammunition he sorta went :eek: ! The deputy asked me if I was into hunting or something and I just told him, "No, I just enjoy shooting".

Later that day my family came down to fetch my broken body and they had absolutely no trouble retrieving my belongings from the Fisher Co. sherriff's office.





Big time kudos to the Fisher County Sherriff's Office on their professionalism regarding my care and my stuff. Good job guys! :cool:

Has anyone else ever been in a wreck involving guns and ammo? If so, how did it turn out?
 
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Bad situation

Never been there and done that, but if I do, I hope it goes as well as your experience went.........:eek:
 
Has anyone else ever been in a wreck involving guns and ammo? If so, how did it turn out?
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Wow! Glad you are OK.

Never been in a wreck with a gun but I got a speeding ticket in Comfort, TX with 18 or 20 machine guns in the car......
Don't ask don't tell worked well but of course you didn't have a choice.

Sure glad it worked out for you, West Texas is pretty laid back at least.
 
Friends of mine were nailed by a truck running a stop sign. He probably had a dozen guns in the trunk, which popped open on impact and scattered hardware into the ditch. I don't know if his family ever recovered them all, neither he nor his wife were alive to inventory them. The sheriff did get back the Thompson, though.
 
Had a Similar experience 4 years ago

I was headed to a Cowboy Action Shoot several hours north of me in a downpour. I was using my cruise control and I maaaay have been going a tad over the speed limit when my truck went into a tailspin. I hit a tree, tail first at about 75MPH. I had about 12 guns with me at the time and and close to three thousand rounds of various calibers. Since I hit back first a lot of the ammo went right out what was left of the rear window of my truck cap. When the cop showed up I was picking up live rounds 35-40 yards behind the truck. He was cool about it and even handled several of my firearms admiringly.
 
Been there almost done that. Was going to Jr College carrying 16hrs and also working 60 hrs a week. Fell asleep on the way to school and woke up driving in a ditch off the side of the road. Very lucky to get the car back on the road without flipping it.:uhoh:

Very glad you're OK!
 
Gotta watch out when your tired- a 20 minute nap could have avoided that accident. Even if you were only a few miles from your hotel. My University is doing alot of research in this area and micro sleep is a very real problem.

Not trying to pick on you and I am glad you were all right- but if you had hit a person things would not have turned out so neat and clean. Including a possible felony which as a result would put a real damper on your hobby.

Be safe people- and not just when on the range!
 
Fish, you're right about the 'micro sleep', it helps. I had just taken a piss break and walked around the truck about five minutes previous so...


All my ammo was stored in cans in the truck bed toolbox. I had three .50 cal cans that held 1000 loose .45acp, 1000 loose .357 and about 180 12 gauge shells respectively. The shotgun can was a little torqued, the .45 can was unscathed and the .357 can was mangled but still secure. Those cans are tough!

The cans made it out better than I did. Two broken ribs, a bruised hip and a badly bruised shoulder with seatbelt burn. I can't bellyache too much though, I'm lucky to be alive. :eek:

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affect of crash on amunition

Glad to hear your ok. was any of the amunition damaged in the crash? I think I would look at every round verry carefuly.
 
Friends of mine were nailed by a truck running a stop sign.
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People are distracted all the time. A stop sign doesn't "jump out" like a stop light if the person hasn't been there before and is distracted. I treat 4-way stops like 2-way stops and verify the other car is either going slow and slowing down or stopped before I go. It isn't smart to go just because you have stopped and are in the right, if you see someone coming down the road going 60 - they might stop, they might not. Sorry about your friend.
 
I'm in EMS, I've been on the other side of the situation...

We picked up a motorcyclist the other day who tried going head to head with a pickup. He was in remarkably good shape considering no helmet. Had open arm, leg and collar bone fractures. Guy had a Az. CHL. and was carrying. I didn't see exactly what he was carrying, a .38 snub IIRC. The Valencia County Sheriff's Deputy on scene was very nice about taking charge of it and reassuring the guy it was safe and where he could pick it up.

I got the chance to do a little education for some fellow EMS students a while back. We were getting a class on scene safety and what to do in various situations. I got to poiint out that there are a lot of LEGAL gun owners and that just because somebody has a gun, they're NOT automatically a thug. Gave out a few facts about CCW, vehicle carry and carry on private property.

BTW, Kanigit; What the heck did you do to yourself that you WALKED away and then got a helecopter ride??? :eek:
Or were the EMTs just playing it safe?
 
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BTW, Kanigit; What the heck did you do to yourself that you WALKED away and then got a helecopter ride???
Or were the EMTs just playing it safe?
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I didn't walk, twas more of a shambling crawl. When I came to about 16 feet below the road I could only reach my work cell phone and it didn't have enough signal to make an emergency call. I crawled out through the driver's side window and took a last look in the cab and saw my personal cell which I grabbed. I got up the hill and flopped over the guard rail onto the shoulder. It took three tries before I finally got EMS on the line and on the way. :(

They thought I might have a collapsed lung and wanted to get me outta there. It wasn't a bad ride... except that I got strapped to the board backwards and I'm a wee bit large to fit comfortably in the cubbyhole of that chopper.

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Back in the late 70's a friend was on his full dress Harley coming back from Shaver lake. He came around a curve and a pickup had crossed the double yellow line into his lane. He almost managed to miss the truck but clipped the back bumper and lost control of the bike. He landed several hundred feet down the side of a mountain. When the responding deputy finally worked his way down to where Mike had landed he was unconscious and pretty broken up. While the deputy was waiting for help to get Mike up to the ambulance he checked his pockets for an ID. He found a 2 1/2" S&W 66 in a shoulder holster. He took the gun and unloaded it.

Later at the hospital, while Mike was still unconscious he told Mike's wife "I need to talk to you." He hands her something wrapped in a handkerchief and said "I found this on your husband. I figured he has enough troubles right now and doesn't really need a weapons charge added to his problems."
 
Most people that fall asleep on the road don't usually have a chance to pass along their story glad you made it out of there alive at least!

Btw, english kanigit Dare I ask a Monty Python fan? Classic would have been crawling out of that wreck and telling the responders, "I don't need the helicopter it's just a flesh wound" :)
 
My brother and I got grazed by a coal truck in his pickup a couple years ago (It was my brother's fault).
We pulled over and the driver of the truck called the local cops. While we were waiting for them to show up to take statements, he showed some bravado and made the statement/ backdoor threat "You guys are lucky. Some people wouldn't have been as nice about this as I am."

My reply:
"Actually, its probably a good thing you are. Right now I'm carrying a 9mm and so is he. We also have two semi-automatic rifles and about 200 rounds of ammunition behind the seat."
He didn't say much after that.
 
Totaled my car with a few hundred scattered rounds in the trunk, but no guns. Picked them all up when I went to clean it out at the junkyard.

Really was a good thing though, I wrecked my car, cause there was HANDGUN ammo all over that trunk that I didn't know about, and I had plans to head to Canada a few weeks later :uhoh:
 
Happy now, wait til you get the helo bill. EMS has gotten into the habit of flying out a lot of stuff that doesn't need to be flown. If the EMS crew were good experienced EMTs or more than half-assed Paramedics they should have been able to tell whether or not you had a pneumothorax. Of course other considerations come into play, like what services the local hospital can offer for trauma.
 
I got stopped last week for an expired inspection sticker. Officer came up, gave me the ticket, then said "do you have any guns in the car...?". I said. "uh, no...". He said, I see targets back there...".

I had some shot up targets from a trip to the range a couple weeks ago, they were still on the floorboard behind my seat.

Him asking about it kind of made me uncomfortable... but he said "ok" and left.
 
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