On our return from a cobra meet in Conroe this weekend I saw what I had hoped to never see. A couple of good friends of mine that have cobras and our wives made the drive from Kingwood TX to Conroe TX to the meet and made about 1/2 the drive Saturday when we had to return home so we proceeded to make our way through some back roads (scenic route) and a woman ran a stop sign and hit my buddy right in front of me.
Thank goodness we were not going fast! We were moving about 55 as we approaced an intersection that was a 2 way stop, with large signs for the crossing traffic that said "cross traffic does not stop and the woman did a "california roll" through the sign and the worst part was that it was blind because of the brush, none of us saw her coming until it was too late.
In typical fashion I was following a 2 second rule while following my buddy and let me just say to Gordon, THE WILWOODS WORK. Had I not had a good brake system I most likely would have plowed into the wreck myself, as it was I stopped about 20 feet shy an rolled to the front of my buddies car and did all I could until the ambulance arrived.
Kirk and Dody will live to go on the next ride; however, they were both hurt pretty bad and the car is a total loss. There were 5 passengers in the other vehicle 2 of which were young kids whom all suffered minor injuries, mostly due to the air bags I suspect. The 5 passengers from the other car were treated and released from the hospital in a few hours. Dody had to have some stitches in her face where some debris hit her,lost several teeth, broke her cheek bone and suffered too many minor injuries to list and was released later Saturday evening. Kirk on the other hand is still at Houston's trauma hospital (Memorial Herman) where he will be undergoing multiple surgeries. He suffered multiple lacerations, broke his jaw in multiple locations, broken leg, many broken teeth and again too many minor injuries to list.
It was a great day that came to a disasterous end. If there is a lesson to be learned from this it is to always where your entire harness! Always where your entire harness! I felt it was worth saying twice. Both Kirk and Dody only had on their lap belts and the injuries to their faces would have most likely been eliminated had they not hit the dash with their face. If you have one of those shifters that has the imitation lock to mimic the original, get rid of it, the cut that came from that nearly killed Kirk.
Have fun and be safe!
Jon
Thank goodness we were not going fast! We were moving about 55 as we approaced an intersection that was a 2 way stop, with large signs for the crossing traffic that said "cross traffic does not stop and the woman did a "california roll" through the sign and the worst part was that it was blind because of the brush, none of us saw her coming until it was too late.
In typical fashion I was following a 2 second rule while following my buddy and let me just say to Gordon, THE WILWOODS WORK. Had I not had a good brake system I most likely would have plowed into the wreck myself, as it was I stopped about 20 feet shy an rolled to the front of my buddies car and did all I could until the ambulance arrived.
Kirk and Dody will live to go on the next ride; however, they were both hurt pretty bad and the car is a total loss. There were 5 passengers in the other vehicle 2 of which were young kids whom all suffered minor injuries, mostly due to the air bags I suspect. The 5 passengers from the other car were treated and released from the hospital in a few hours. Dody had to have some stitches in her face where some debris hit her,lost several teeth, broke her cheek bone and suffered too many minor injuries to list and was released later Saturday evening. Kirk on the other hand is still at Houston's trauma hospital (Memorial Herman) where he will be undergoing multiple surgeries. He suffered multiple lacerations, broke his jaw in multiple locations, broken leg, many broken teeth and again too many minor injuries to list.
It was a great day that came to a disasterous end. If there is a lesson to be learned from this it is to always where your entire harness! Always where your entire harness! I felt it was worth saying twice. Both Kirk and Dody only had on their lap belts and the injuries to their faces would have most likely been eliminated had they not hit the dash with their face. If you have one of those shifters that has the imitation lock to mimic the original, get rid of it, the cut that came from that nearly killed Kirk.
Have fun and be safe!
Jon
