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"Dammit. That was a nice car" she said.
Highway 84 West of the 280 freeway is a
beautiful, twisting, hilly and unforgiving road.
My friend did almost exactly what I did; and
stuffed her car into a deep canyon. Except she
nailed the first tree backwards, and then went
backwards down into the night -- and smack into
another tree. (I went over the edge forward in my
944.) This adventure was in her champagne gold
metallic Euro 280SL. And she's right, it was a nice
car... A 5-speed, too.
This occured on a different part of Hwy 84 than
which claimed my first 944, and both of our mishaps
occured between 11pm and midnight.
She came around a corner, saw a deer in the
middle, and tried to swerve. She caught the edge of
the road with her tires (passenger side) and the
car swapped ends. It collected a redwood tree going
backwards at about 45 MPH.
The car impacted on the passenger's side rear
bumper, and her car was dusted. It rolled down the
canyon backwards, until it finally stopped against
an oak tree. The tow truck guy said he used 135
feet of cable getting it out.
After I drove my 944 off a
cliff, I was pretty amazed to be alive and basically
unhurt. Never -- ever -- did I dream that someone
well known to me would do almost exactly the same thing, on
the same road, in exactly the same
circumstances....
She had her seatbelt on, and was unhurt, although
she did say she hit her head. The driver's window
was broken out, by the way. A hard-headed girl, in
a tough-as-nails car.
Updated:
29 / May / 99
You are crash survivor
since this page was originally posted on 17 December
1998.
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