Sweet merciful gods....

[the_nita]

This story - I just listened to the gentleman in question on CBC. Holy crap, but I cannot imagine being stuck under a semi, in a mangled car, with battery acid dripping on me (detail not in the article, but from the CBC interview), unable to move (spine fractured in 4 places plus a broken radius), for 2 hours while they try to cut you out with the

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[greensabre27]

Yeeg! Nightmares indeed...

[insaint]

Oy. If you weren't claustraphobic before, I bet you would be after...

[freya46]

Whoa. Incredible.

[freya46]

Also...something needs to be done about the distance those big trucks DON'T leave between themselves and other vehicles.

[daisyqduck]

Just imagine that something very similar might have happened to R if he hadn't looked in his mirror and managed to get his car *mostly* out of the way. Shudder.