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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on August 28, 2011, 10:09:16 AM
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If there were a Darwin award for survivors, this guy would get it. Getting busted for DUI is bad. Causing an accident while DUI is worse. But this? This takes the prize. This guy's grandchildren will be visiting him in prison. ::)
FQ13
PS I might be wrong about the lenghth of the guy's prison term. Guess who guards the LA county jail? ;)
Sheriff's Patrol Car Knocked Over Cliff, Two Deputies Injured
By Robert Henry
| Sunday, Aug 28, 2011 | Updated 6:31 AM PDT
A Los Angeles County sheriff's patrol car was struck from behind by a car with an alleged drunken driver at the wheel, knocked off Pacific Coast Highway and landed on a Malibu beach Saturday morning, injuring both deputies inside.
The patrol car landed upright, with its front end in the sand, and all of its doors jammed. Firefighters worked in ankle-deep water with hydraulic cutting tools to get the deputies freed from the wreckage, as the front doors were apparently jammed shut.
The deputies, 51-year-old Jeffrey Miner and 47-year-old James Millage, were taken to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said Lt. Stephanie Shrout of the sheriff's Lost Hills station.
"The deputies' seatbelts saved them from being ejected from the patrol car onto the rocks, or to suffer even worse injuries," said Lt. Josh Thai of the sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills station. "They were injured and in pain. Luckily, the sand was level and it was low tide or they might have drowned."
Shrout said Miner was airlifted to the hospital because of complaints of neck and back pain, but he was released from the hospital early Saturday.
Paramedics used a ground ambulance to take Millage to UCLA, and Shrout said he was still being evaluated there.
The crash occurred about 1 a.m. in the 19400 block of Pacific Coast Highway between Topanga Beach and Las Tunas Canyon Road.
Shrout said the driver, 44-year-old Woodland Hills resident Mark Liebrecht, was in a dark gray 550 Series BMW. He was arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving. Liebrecht's bail was set at $100,000, and he was held at the sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills Station.
The deputies were conducting a patrol check in the area when the crash occurred.
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If there were a Darwin award for survivors, this guy would get it. Getting busted for DUI is bad. Causing an accident while DUI is worse. But this? This takes the prize. This guy's grandchildren will be visiting him in prison. ::)
FQ13
PS I might be wrong about the lenghth of the guy's prison term. Guess who guards the LA county jail? ;)
Sheriff's Patrol Car Knocked Over Cliff, Two Deputies Injured
By Robert Henry
| Sunday, Aug 28, 2011 | Updated 6:31 AM PDT
A Los Angeles County sheriff's patrol car was struck from behind by a car with an alleged drunken driver at the wheel, knocked off Pacific Coast Highway and landed on a Malibu beach Saturday morning, injuring both deputies inside.
The patrol car landed upright, with its front end in the sand, and all of its doors jammed. Firefighters worked in ankle-deep water with hydraulic cutting tools to get the deputies freed from the wreckage, as the front doors were apparently jammed shut.
The deputies, 51-year-old Jeffrey Miner and 47-year-old James Millage, were taken to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said Lt. Stephanie Shrout of the sheriff's Lost Hills station.
"The deputies' seatbelts saved them from being ejected from the patrol car onto the rocks, or to suffer even worse injuries," said Lt. Josh Thai of the sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills station. "They were injured and in pain. Luckily, the sand was level and it was low tide or they might have drowned."
Shrout said Miner was airlifted to the hospital because of complaints of neck and back pain, but he was released from the hospital early Saturday.
Paramedics used a ground ambulance to take Millage to UCLA, and Shrout said he was still being evaluated there.
The crash occurred about 1 a.m. in the 19400 block of Pacific Coast Highway between Topanga Beach and Las Tunas Canyon Road.
Shrout said the driver, 44-year-old Woodland Hills resident Mark Liebrecht, was in a dark gray 550 Series BMW. He was arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving. Liebrecht's bail was set at $100,000, and he was held at the sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills Station.
The deputies were conducting a patrol check in the area when the crash occurred.
How would they have been ejected through closed doors ?
Typical media sensationalism / BS.
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How would they have been ejected through closed doors ?
Typical media sensationalism / BS.
The hard way. Through the windshield.
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Seatbelt saved them from going through the windshield, but nothing stopped them from punching out the side glass themselves to escape. I expect a rising tide would have motivated them a little more...
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Seatbelt saved them from going through the windshield, but nothing stopped them from punching out the side glass themselves to escape. I expect a rising tide would have motivated them a little more...
That is true....but if I felt I might have neck and back injuries, I'd sit tight till the tide made getting out worth the risk...
The other guy figured he'd keep his buddy company and help finish off the donuts.