Posted on 07/16/2012 8:00:14 AM PDT by MplsSteve
The Minnesota State Patrol says a driver who bounced in and out of a highway ditch unknowingly lost her backseat passenger, who was ejected through a broken window.
The patrol says the 72-year-old driver, Louise Ericksen, was driving southbound on Highway 72 in Beltrami County Sunday when her car strayed into the ditch, hit a sign and broke a back window. As the car bounced along the rough terrain, 15-year-old Kendall Ericksen was ejected out the broken window.
The driver maneuvered her Impala back on the highway and continued southbound without realizing Kendall was missing.
The Duluth News Tribune says when the driver and a front seat passenger discovered Kendall wasn't there, they drove back to the area where they had gone in the ditch and found her standing alongside the highway. She wasn't seriously injured.
Was driving on I-80 west of Rawlins, WY when a car passed me at high speed and I saw a dog in back seat leaping back and forth between the open windows. Suddenly out the passenger side, a large and hairy dog flew out the window and went bouncing down side of pavement with balls of hair peeling off at every impact. I put on the brakes as the car was stopping hard. The dog got up on all fours and shook it’s self, the car backed up and the dog went running to it seemingly unhurt and jumped into open door.
Impalas are flighty beasts; maybe it caught a whiff of Jaguar, and panicked.
Reminds me of a joke.
An elderly man was driving down the road when he suddenly saw blue lights in his rear-view mirror.
He dutifully pulled over and the officer walked to his door.
“Sir, you rounded a sharp turn about three miles back. When you did, the passenger door came open and your wife fell out onto the roadway.”
“Thank heavens!” the man said.
“What?” said the officer. “Why would you thank heavens for something like that?”
“I thought I’d gone deaf”, the man replied.
Then there’s the German joke about a wrong-way driver on the Autobahn (a serious real life problem):
A little old man decided to visit his cousin an hour away on the Autobahn.
“Hans,” his wife said, “You must take your cell phone, just in case you have car trouble.”
“Yes, Hilda, I will.”
Three hours later Hilda frantically calls Hans—on his way home by now. “Hans, Hans, you MUST be careful, the TV news says there is a wrong-way driver on your part of the Autobahn right now!”
“Yes, yes, I KNOW, Hilda!” Hans replies, “THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THEM PASSING ME!!!”
Now why would God steer that car into a ditch and throw that poor girl out the back window?
I don’t think you can blame God for that—I think the blame lies strictly with the driver of the car.
LOLOLOL!!!!
This is why I never carry passengers in the back seat.
That’s what the trunk’s for.
I'm trying to imagine the "rough terrain" that would smash a REAR window, and then bounce a kid out said window.
Then I'm trying to imagine the circumstances that would impel me to keep driving after I somehow make it back up to the road.
Seems to me that unless you're being chased by bikers (ala Mad Max) - or on your way to the hospital, it would be prudent to stop and take stock of the vehicle - AND YOUR PASSENGERS!!!
But only on the way TO the store. It’s too full of the grocery on the way back.
On the way home there’s the Romney Technique.
Shhhhh! That’s our little secret!
And the roof rack.
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