Friday, December 19, 2008

Pictures of Ryan's TOTALLED Truck

So here are the pictures of Ryan's truck...He found out today that it is totalled and we have a rental car now which is nice! But this first picture is of the bed of the truck separated from the cab...So to tell you some more details, he was stopped in a long line of cars (along with four other separate accidents) from a semi truck jack-knifed in the road ahead (this is on Interstate 90 westbound) and the red Jeep Cherokee that hit him was going about 40 mph witnesses said so it seriously busted his canopy off the bed of the truck 50 yards behind his truck! Thank heavens it did not hit another car because then Ryan would have felt so bad even though it wasn't his fault to begin with! So this picture is funny, even though there is nothing funny about his accident but he has no idea where this dent came from! It wasn't there before and a kid in another accident who clipped the backside of a semi said he also hit Ryan but Ryan doesn't remember! He didn't remember much all day Wednesday when it happened but now he closes his eyes and sees the Jeep coming and then hears the boom!
So most of you know Ryan does oxygen sales and deliveries...He keeps all his tanks in a big heavy duty Rubbermaid in the back of his truck and it busted into 100 pieces...


This is a whole shot of his truck...So as you can tell it is missing the canopy and it was still snowing that whole day...This happened in the middle of the snow storm! So being there for 4 hours waiting for tow trucks didn't help either...HUGE Thanks to Jayson, his brother for picking him up and taking him up here to Hayden to a collision center where they took his truck!
What we have learned from this experience is that it completely sucks to be in an accident even being the ones who didn't cause it! So now we are in the process of looking for a new vehicle for him and since we just purchased our minivan from a great salesman we are contacting him to hook us up again!
Drive slowly is our advice and look out for crazy drivers!!!!

4 comments:

Crazy Corinne said...

Tyler told us about this! That is so dang scary!! I am so glad that he is ok! It sucks about the truck and all though!

Backwoods Browns said...

Crazy!! What a yucky mess!! Glad he's okay!

Taylor said...

Oh man you guys have had a pretty bad week. I am glad that Ryan is ok. You be careful driving on your route.

kim dance said...

I think I saw Ryan and his truck on in the CDA press! Sorry it had to be because of an accident! Good luck with finding a new car. Totally stinks!