Had a kid in a borrowed SUV miss a curve and go flying off the road at our place the other day. The road is higher the our pasture by about 10 feet. The SUV rolled multipile times for about 100 yards before it hit a tree. Kid was not wearing a seat belt and got ejected pretty early in the rolls. We didn't hear the crash but for some reason I had the tractor on that road a few minutes after he had wrecked. Found him kind of wandering around. He didn't appear hurt but after I chatted with him for a few seconds it was obvious he had some serious head injuries. I hurried to the house and we called for help. Then I headed back. He had laid down in some rocks not far from the road. Talk about the wrong place. There is lots of copperheads in those rocks. I saw 2 of them and got him out of there and moved out of there. About that time the first responders showed up. Most of them only live less then a mile from us. They took real good care of him. Besides the head injuries he had a broken ankle, ribs, etc. Wasn't good. They also had to check him real close for snake bites but they didn't find any. He wasn't sure if there had been anyone else in the SUV so we had to check quite a bit of pasture looking for others. And try to check the inside of the car but that was real tough as it wasn't sitting very solid and if moved would probably roll some more. Didn't find anybody else.
He took out a whole bunch of my new fence. And my pasture is littered with all sorts of debris like glass, plastics, beer bottles, etc... We ended up having to take down even more fence on the other side of the pasture to get the SUV out of there. I had to get the tractor down there to roll the car back on it's wheels so it could be removed from the pasture. Needless to say, the SUV was totaled. Wasn't a straight body part left and the roof was crushed especially in the back.
Going to take us days to fix fence and pick up glass. Can't have the glass in the pasture with grazing animals. This was on sunday. We had bought a herd of goats on saturday and they were to be delivered to that pasture monday morning. Guess not. They are all in a small pen for a few days. We did pick up some debris after the wreck. Kind of interesting what you will find. Lots of beer bottles, ashtray and rolling papers. Go figure.
The grass in the pasture is about 2 feet tall. We are just covered in chigger bites from that. We're talking hundreds of bites on each of us. Now that sucks.
Now, the SUV belonged to his girlfriends father. Nobody had insurance. And I heard that the father wasn't a real pleasant fellow to start with. Sure would hate to be that kid about now. Pretty sure he's going to be in the hospital for awhile.
Randy