I was wearing my seat belt. I have no recolection of how I came out of the cab, the accident investigators figured I came out through the back window when the truck was inverted in the air durring the 2nd end over end roll. I guess I was consious on the way to the hospital, complained about wrecking my truck & my hunting plans, was still semi-consious to see my wife at the hospital, but faded out soon after, the next thing I can recall was in the Calgary Foothills Hospital in Mid December '79, the accident occured October 20/79 at about 7:30am south east of Sundre, Alberta, Canada.

I am thankful to the Doctors & EMT's for thier efforts. This last May my wife & I celibrated our 25 wedding anniversary, this topic is always sobering to me as I consider how close the end was in that instance, glad to have survived to share the last 25 years together.

 

you said the truck was still running in gear when it stopped?? I wounder why the inertia switch didnt shut it down? DW
P.S. Glade you were all able to walk away!!!!!

 

yes DW2455 i was surprised it was still running to when i climbed out of the trck i yelled to Fred shut that thing off!!! i didnt want ti to cath frie or soemthing i wasnt sure what it might do or what really happen to it im surprised it was still running nad tha thte air bags didnt come out i didnt know there was any speed limit to have them come out i just figured if they smacked something hard enough like they did those trees that they would come out guess not

 

I'm thinkin "F 2fifter with a 4 sixter" should change his name to "Boomhauer"!!

 

Dag gom man, I dno wha you s'that for I mean y'know when a guy done jest svived a thang lahk dat y'jnow what I mean? it's like wow, call'n 'm boomhauer an' all.

 

what the hell is a boomhauer i dont apperciate being insulted oh well if i make some typos if you cant read it then dont resposed to it keep your thoughts to yourself im not a redneck either far from it thought id just say what i thought of the new super dutys since im not all old and have a bunch of money like some ppl on here that might be able to afford a brand new super duty but im happy with what i have as for my name if you dont like it dont insult it my friend was messing around and said that when i told him what the truck had so i thought it was funny and used it for a screen name

 

No.. no one is calling you a redneck or anything. The only thing they are having fun about is your typing. All of your posts are VERY hard to read and follow seeing that you use no punctuation. Where does one sentence end and another begin?

No one is insulting you, they are merely trying to "hint" to you to use some punctuation every now and then.

 

yeah but they are readable it dosent matter anyway i dont own a new super duty like a lot of yuppie ppl who dont need one do so this will be my first and last post in this forum section ill stick to where ppl keep to the subject of what the post is about and not how well typed it is

 

Fine leave whatever... but if you can't type a post that people can easily read you should expect a comment or two. It happens.

Sorry we scared ya off!

 

I can't believe you don't know who Boomhauer is he is a character on King of the Hill which is a cartoon on Fox he kind of talks like that I sure wouldn't get offended or mad about its just in good fun how can you call a fellow F 2fifter with a 3 thirtyer and a ZF S6-650 a yuppy that's wasn't very nice at all no siree bob what was I driving when I was 19 oh yeah a 1987 Yugo-er with a 1 point one liter-er now that's rough I didn't or couldn't even afford a Ford truck until I was 24 when I bought a used F 1Fifter with a 3 hundreder and I didn't even get to buy my first new truck, a 1999 F 2fifter with a 3 thirtyer, until I was 27 so come on give us a brake (13.2" disc with dual piston caliper) and don't get mad

 

yeah!

 

Then I bid you both hello & goodbye!

Thanks for sharing your story and I'm glad that you and your friends weren't injured in the accident.

As for the topic at hand, I rolled a '90 F150 three weeks after I bought it. The situation was very similar to that which F2fifter-whatever described. The fuel-cutoff relay did not engage and I had to turn the engine off after the wreck. Even after dragging the truck back up the hill and "flopping" it over onto the wheels, the truck started right up. Really makes me wonder about how well some of these 'safety' devices work.

 

Yeah but that's different, you're from Oklahoma.

 

LOL- And I thank God every day for that.

 

You ever cruise on over to Talimena drive in the Ouachita forest between Broken Bow and Poteau or around Beaver Bend park? There's always someone who rolled his truck out there. But Okies are more matter-of-fact about it. Just a minor annoyance. "Are you guys OK? Do you need help?" "Yeah, why don't you just back on up and pull us upright? Appreciate it!"