Wheelin accident at Kaner

[commando14]

Ceg found this info about an accident at Kaner:

This is all the info I have found out so far. I am posting this sad report to remind people that $hit happens, so be safe when wheelin'. We lost a lot of wheelers last year.

The guy that rolled the jeep on Kaner was going up what is known locally as "Heart Attack Hill". It is a steep hill climb where the trail crosses a road. He turned onto the road, then backed up and dropped his rear tire onto the 4x4 trail and went over backwards. Pretty bad, lots of blood. The initial call for help was made on CB channel 9. There was some confusion as to the location which delayed matters. To make the recovery more complicated, he weighed 320 pounds. The passenger had lesser head injuries and was taken out by ambulance. The jeep did not look that badly damaged, the fenders were bent in but otherwise you wouldn't think it had rolled hard. No padding on the cage that I remember. When he was brought down to the landing zone at Longmire Meadows he started slip away and the medics worked on him for about an hour before he was stable enough to load onto the bird for the flight to the hospital.

Last I heard he had subdural hematoma (bleeding in the brain) and was critical at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. To add insult to injury, a relative who went to the hospital the morning after suffered a heart attack!

[79chevy39.5's]

thats too bad

[Grumpy]

Not a good thing The sad thing is, there will be a group of anti off road whiners will get hold of this and bend it to their ends. I don't understand. The guy was doing what he enjoys, bottom line. At this point, the most important thing is that he and his family have all the support that can be mustered from family and the wheelin' community, and that his injuries heal with no lasting affect