New way to park!! LOL Pickup in the ditch.

The youngest son put one of your pickups in the ditch last night going after his wife at work. The truck just has some light damage to the RIGHT front fender and steering linkage. The left side that is in the ditch was not damaged. The ditch was full of snow and it cushioned the truck.

You are looking south out the farm drive way. This is the first time anyone has missed the culvert that we can remember. The lane is 30 feet wide at the top over the culvert. It is not as narrow as it looks. We had rails on it at one time but they where a PIA. It seemed like they made snow drift on the road bad and then they where in the way for wide equipment.

The drive is a straight shot up the hill and out on the county road. The lane was drifted from the West (right side of the picture) He got over too far to the left and roped of the edge of the drive and the deep snow sucked him off the road.

You are looking at the lane after I blew it out this morning. I told him to wait 15-20 minutes last night and I would have it cleared for him to go but he was in a hurry.

I had a local guy with a big boom wrecker come and lift it straight up and out of the ditch. The insurance adjuster is coming out Wed. to look at it.

The bad thing is we just bought this truck in Oct. It is a 1996 1500 diesel with only 54,000 miles on it. The transmission shift valve was bad and the fellow that owned it was afraid that it would cost too much to repair. We did have the transmission rebuild while they had the valve off.

It will be interesting to see what the insurance company will do. The local agent thinks they will total it even thought the damage is just the right fender, tie rod, and hood.

Do you mean 2500? They don't put diesels in 1500s

In the mid 90s you could order the 6.5 turbo diesel in chevy and gmc half tons.

Ok thanks, Iv never saw one around here.

coming home from work one morning found neighbors daughter in ditch 3/4 truck 8 ply tires no weight hit a patch of drift snow and spun her in.he had the 4 wheel jury rigged and we couldnt get it engaged . as she was headed to school caught anthor kid going in and sent her in. i grabed the keys and went to her dad and told him your kids ok but heres the keys to the truck!! we jumped in my truck ran over there and with the help of a vice grips got it in 4 wheel drive got it out in time cops showed up as we were driving away missed that ticket barney

Ticket??? You mean you can get a ticket just for going in the ditch??

How's about a few of those driveway reflectors on each side to mark the culvert? Some are flexible enough to bend over for a piece of equipment without damage. Even if you destroy one and have to replace it the cost might be a few thousand less than a vehicle in the ditch

Not telling you how to run your show. Just running the possibilities through the slow moving gears....

Yes, at least here anyway. It's all about ensuring someone is at fault. You had an accident--if it wasn't equipment failure it is your fault. By writing you a ticket they ensure your insurance company knows their investigation showed you to be at fault. Weather? Not normally an excuse. You should be going slow enough and driving appropriately to handle anything. Sucks.

They call it failure to have control. I see it in the local paper regularly around here. Jim

They also call it, leaving the scene of an accident. My father
had a deer run into the side of his caddy a few years ago,
about 3/4 of a mile from his house. He drove home and called
the police, they told him he left the accident, which is a no no I
guess, luckily they dident bother him, but they said he should
have called were the accident happened, go figure.

I did have reflectors on the edges but HE plowed them out the last snow storm. LOL

It was blizzard conditions and you could not see past the hood at times. HE just was going too fast and should have waited an cleared the lane.

Glad that he wasn't hurt.

Last night while driving US 12 between Union and Edwardsburg, MI I saw a fella that made the mistake of getting a huge pay loader off of the highway, down the edge and into a slight up sloap of a farm field, and was he ever stuck. He had that thing thrashing from side to side, forward, reverse, and the only place it seemed to move was deeper. It was in deep, deep snow. I figured at a certain point, call someone to come pick him up, give it a fresh try next daylight. I figure that he must have taken a bad bounce in road gear, and things ended up as they did. A couple of miles later down the road I passed a big road grader and two big highway trucks heading his way.

A a bright note, I got my 4520 out of the culvert it went down into about a week later when it warmed, the snow melted, and safely into the barn. I've used it a couple of times since, but instead of pushing the snow down into the culvert, I just back blade or load it into piles well away from the tractor swallowing culvert.

Mark

Here where I live, if you went off the road a wrecker won't hook up to you unless the police are called first.

I think it was called a heavy half ton Kinda a cross between a 2500 and a Z71 off road package. A few guys round us in Manitoba Canada have them , also see them for sale once in a while.
Regards Robert

My dad and a good friend was on a jury of such a case The guy had got stuck in a snow drift. He was walking to a neighbor to get it pulled out. This Il. state police man saw him walking. Stoped and told him he couldn't leave it there, and he had to call a wrecker. Well old guy got mad, then cop wanted him to take a Breathalyzer test. He wouldn't cop cuffed him and took him to jail. Bottom line after they heard his story they didn't care if he had been drinking or not. They found him not guilty. Judge agreed. I called him when his son was in the ditch.

I've never done it, but I think you can buy her back from the insurance co after they total it out. That is, if he really loves the pickup.

I drove my skid steer off the driveway last week. I was trying to knock off the snow berm near a dropoff as it was drifting like you described with the culverts. Pushed a little too far and ended up nose down at better'n 45 degrees with the snow blocking the door. Trapped. Called the neighbor and he came over with his loader tractor and dug me out. Great to have good neighbors.

(quoted from post at 21:31:52 01/27/14) I think it was called a heavy half ton Kinda a cross between a 2500 and a Z71 off road package. A few guys round us in Manitoba Canada have them , also see them for sale once in a while.
Regards Robert

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here are light and HD 1/2 Ton 1500 (5 or 6 bolt wheels) 3/4 and 1 tons(8 bolt) all of them could be had with a 6.2 diesel and starting in 93 with a 6.5 diesel.
I own 4 of them.

Ouch! Seems all too fimiluar too me. Still waiting for the adjusters report on my wife roll-over on Saturday. Hope your son was unhurt in this ditch dwelling. Bruce

Here they call it driving too fast for conditions.

Total it???
Around here that's a $8000 to $10000 maybe more since as a 1/2 ton diesel it's pretty rare.
With your skills that's nothing to fix and you can get new parts from LMC.

A neighbor ordered a 1500 single cab two wheel drive with a 6.5 diesel. Black with gray interior. Its a 97 or 98. Super cool truck !!!

(quoted from post at 04:35:25 01/28/14) They also call it, leaving the scene of an accident. My father
had a deer run into the side of his caddy a few years ago,
about 3/4 of a mile from his house. He drove home and called
the police, they told him he left the accident, which is a no no I
guess, luckily they dident bother him, but they said he should
have called were the accident happened, go figure.

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Not trying to be obstinate, but did anyone ask the police what he should do if he didn't have a cell phone? Would be hard to call from the scene of the accident then...

Isn't that great, when I drove for the lumber yard way back when, I was returning from a delivery, had a 48' flat bed trailer on, was at an intersection, apparently someone was right on my bumper unbeknownst to me, was a slight grade, so I rolled back slightly when letting out the clutch, nothing excessive, hard to stall that old Mack anyway, made it all the way back to the yard, the jerk followed me and tried to have me charged with leaving the scene of an accident! You'll never feel that in the cab, so how can you leave an accident you never knew about LOL ! I parked the rig, went in, punched out, and snuck over to my vehicle without him seeing me and I left. I think he was up to something, he said he called the police, he must have followed me for 20 miles, no cell phones so who knows. Nothing ever came of it and maybe he left more room the next time, I was not going to play into this, would not have been the first time I had to take the hit for someone elses screw up and have a mark on my record or points.

at work we used to have a 1/2 ton 2 door blazer with a diesel. Should have put a bid in on it when they were selling it. Was a test vehicle so it didn't have more than 30,000ish miles.

(quoted from post at 20:47:11 01/27/14) Here where I live, if you went off the road a wrecker won't hook up to you unless the police are called first.

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Good thing it was off his DRIVEWAY, then...

The police here don't have the time for deer accidents if nobody is injured. Just call your insurance company. You don't drive much if you haven't had an accident with a deer.