I’ve a dilemma ..
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Scary story. Glad that it no one was injured or the truck totalled.
My spouse had a similar experience in her rear wheel drive car about 23 years ago. It was a Friday in latter part of January and she had been working in Calgary all week. For some reason she decided to drive the 200 miles home that evening rather than wait until the next morning in the daylight. There is a stretch of highway about half way notorious for drifting snow and black ice in winter. Sure enough, there was patch at the top of a rise and she hit the ice at highway speed. The car immediately spun and ploughed into the snow filled ditch. She initially thought a tire blew and caused the spin out. That changed pretty quickly when a pickup truck flew off the highway and almost hit her. Like your experience, though the truck engaged the 4 wheel drive and drove back onto the highway. Nevertheless other vehicles were hitting the ditch as well. Soon the RCMP and tow trucks arrived and started pulling vehicles out of the ditch.
The accident took out the front end of the car so she returned back home late that night as a passenger in the tow truck. I think the damage repair was around $2k. After that she never trusted that car on winter roads again and never drove on the highway again for six years - only after we traded off the Volvo for a Subaru Outback. She has been driving Subarus ever since and still does not feel confident winter highway driving.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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On the rise 1 mile south of the Seventh Day Adventist College just north of the Lacombe turnoff.
The following week I drove her back to Calgary and stopped at the spot, I even salvaged a couple of car body parts that had been torn off when she hit the snow in the ditch.
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@George-K said in I’ve a dilemma ..:
@brenda wow. What a story. Could have ended in a worse way.
Much, much worse.
I've thought the same thing many times. There were so many things we could have hit in that ditch: trees, fence posts, highway signs, billboard structures, etc. We just happened to have landed in an area clear of everything except very tall weeds. Landing in a marsh or slough would have been very bad, too. That area has many.
It's also amazing there were no other vehicles near us. That is very unusual for I-90.
We were so fortunate, and I am so grateful.
