Amazing!

Holy ****, that is amazing... I like your site, we should link up! -Jon curious Read

this is way old, thats for wasting my time

That is a pretty close call. I still dont get how it went from the right side to the left though :/

Man, Thats crazy but I'll tell you what, I don't understand how those rescuers are standing on the edge of that cliff with no restraints.

You should rename your site: That was news.

That happened just outside Hurricane, Utah, near Zions Canyon. I have more pictures of it somewhere, I'll see if i can find them.

Come on, the fall isn't that far down. He would have survived.

Survived, yes. Been fine, more than likely not.

Photoshop.

Who was drive the trunk Wile E Coyote. I guest the ACME cooperation brake work this time

survived? no. no he would not have. That's well over 100 feet. It'd be a miracle if he landed bumper first and skidded down the rock slope gradually dropping speed. more than likely, abrupt stop at the bottom of the cliff, and abrupt death.

The drop is at least 200-250 feet deep. There is nothing to skid along. You would pick up speed quickly. The passengers would have died even if the drop was only as deep as the gray area near the top. Even if there was a lake here, they would still have little chance of survival. The passenger would need to not pass out or panic upon the impact with the water. He or she would then have five to ten seconds to open the door and swim out towards the light while lost and disoriented.

More details: www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp Source: A comment on www.digg.com/offbeat_news/Inches_From_Disaster_PICTURE

This has to be the luckiest person on earth.

I don't see how the truck could have somehow flipped over that culvert, then landed all 4 tires down, facing the opposite direction. Impossible!

Unbelievable, there aren't enough words to enplane this photo

Old news ...

if you find yourself in that situation. any waves and ripples caused by the crash can bend light and on top of already being disoriented, can confuse you more. And what if you crashed into a lake at night? let some air out stupid. Follow the bubbles.

granted this is photoshopped, but with the angles involved the truck would have hit the dirt with 1 corner of the front bumper after crashing through... flipping from there would also cause it to turn, not unlike doing a cartwheel.

Really, Taylor called it - this is definitely a Photoshop creation.

Yes, just doing some quick and dirty math, if the truck is 12 feet long, then the fall is over 168 feet, and that is just the part you can see in the photo. The truck would have reached a freefall speed (from a standing stop) of over 62 mph at the bottom of the photo, and that does not take into account the take off speed of the truck. This also does not take into account secondary impacts, like a few bouces off the cliff walls or flipping once hitting bottom. With all that said, the photo is amazing! Thanks for posting it!

Wow.. He must be Irish..

That's insane! Talk about luck!

i have seen this be4... U SUCK

Wow. that dood should be dead. And yes, the fall WOULD kill him, ****ers

that is just crazy, and if other people have seen this before why are they saying that it sucks, i've seen 100$ before and i like it everytime i see it.

That was me! What a ride. I almost dropped my beer.

This is why we need more government spy cameras everywhere. Not to catch terrorists, but for the spectacular crash videos that would occasionally be made!

If the fall didn't kill him, then the sudden stop at the bottom might.

in case anybody else comes to claim photoshopping on this article: www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp

How do you walk away from something like that?

"Oh, that is Photoshopped" What freaking idiots! That is not Photoshopped. I can't stand dickholes who say everything is Photoshopped.

not only is this old. i call photoshoppp

this is so funny

It does look photoshop'd but if not, tell him/her to go to Vegas! -- free-iphone-apple.blogspot.com/

so how come the metal frame thing sits in a right-angled corner of the cliff in the first picture, but lies against the edge in the next picture?

Wow. Some real trolls hit this site. This is news to me, and snopes confirms it, making it insane. Cool post. You may want to think about forcing account creation for comments, though. Weed through the asshats.

wow

que pendejo el bato.

Don't let some air out, stupid. Compulsion to breathe in is already overwhelming. Keep yourself tight, fin down, wait for your ears to balance and show you the way out (up).

OLD AS ****

Wow wow wow! Gave me shivers.

Here's the Virtual Earth URL for this pic: tinyurl.com/38wm9c

this is 1. way old 2. gay 3. photoshopped 4. of course he would survive the fall...

"how_come commented on August 19, 2007 so how come the metal frame thing sits in a right-angled corner of the cliff in the first picture, but lies against the edge in the next picture?" WOW, probably somebody moved it between taking the pictures. (you're on of the guys that rediscovers a lightswitches wonders every morning, huh?)

I know that road well! Stomping grounds from college, scarey road at night to drive if you're night blind. As far as emergency personel standing on the cliff side, let's just say that down in Zion's area, you become too comfortable around cliffs.

if it were photoshopped ,they wouldve made it more believable.

or maybe someone else bumped off the other side. and then this truck came later on, maybe even months or years, and came from the otherside.and the broken rail was never fixed. hmmm. how incoherrent.

I live in Hurricane. It happened. It's real. No photoshop. I work with a guy who was at the scene- described it in detail that day before the photo's popped up.

nooob, you are: 1, way gay 2, illiterite & 3,photoshopped. if you stayed in school and could read you would clearly see that other people have written that there is proof. paste the damn link and see for yourself. www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp i am confused about the fence myself, if they did move it, why would they move it, and why so far away? its a good photo for bringing out a bunch of idiots with conspiracy theories though. ltr, n.

I like clowns...

Here's a link to CNN.com, not photoshopped. www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/utah.crash/index.html

The rescuers are not "inches from the cliff." It's the perspective of these photos... Go to cnn.com for a close-up. They have a few feet between the truck and the cliff. www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/utah.crash/index.html

I agree with TheDragon. You've got some real idiots posting here. It's only old if you've seen it before. And why is it that people claim Photoshop every time something doesn't look right to them? The pictures of the Holocaust are "imposible" to conceive too, but that doesn't make them Photoshoped. No, I'm not Jewish.

As to the metal frame thing. Take a bunch of photos of the same subject from different angles and see what happens with the objects around it. Things will appear closer and farther away depending on the angle. Also, if this is photoshopped (Which it isn't) then it is one of the absolute best photoshop jobs I've ever seen.

i've taken a lot of photos in my life, and if you look at third pic you see a big dirt lot that you can park in and use a zoom lens to get a pic of the truck and the fence in. then if you walk to the left of where you took the first pic to get closer shot. but still out of the way of the rescue crew i would have walked towards the fence and taken the next shot which would make the fence look closer to the accident. and the angle that the pic was taken would not show the distance between them. sometimes you do that on purpose like pic of people holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa etc.

CNN confirms: www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/utah.crash

Does that drain outlet really dump water off the side of a cliff - 200 feet down onto houses??????? There must be one BA hole down there.

I cant believe all the ignorant childish banter. Please tell me some of you are twelve years old. You should now the facts before opening your mouth.

Very lucky dude. Its possible the truck hooked the gard rail and basically road the rail and ended up on the other side. A co-worker had an SUV and managed to flip it right on to a guard rail similar to that one and slid quite some distance on the rail before stopping. The only damage to my co-workers truck was a nasty slice through the roof where his truck slid across the gard rail. But I'd say this guy is full of it when he says he was doing 55.

NOT PHOTO SHOPPED!!! www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/utah.crash/index.html THE REST OF YOU DOUCHEBAGS SHUT UP!!!

Got to love idiotic road planners, that build a road THAT close to a cliff in the first place....

The swerve, crash, flip, and landing on all four wheels are mathematically possible. There is a high probability of an automobile landing on all four wheels if it does not roll over on its roof. So, cliff or no cliff, the situation is very plausible. Even if the car did not crash, the initial inertia of the vehicle traveling forward along the highway would have carried it forward on to the dirt instead of sideways into the cliff. And with a pick-up truck, where the cab is much heavier than the carriage, an off-set collision would more than likely cause the truck to jack-knife or cart-wheel. All in all, to walk away from any accident is, LUCKY.

hey, gotta be fake, do you really think there are houses under that culvert you moron? come on.

The rescue personnel seem closer to the edge of the precipice than they really were. Compression of apparent distance between objects is an optical effect of a telephoto lens. I'm pretty sure this (second) photo was shot will a longer than normal (50mm for a 35mm camera) lens.

To the morons that think he would have survived a 200 foot fall. Jump off the peak of a one story house and see how you fair. Thats only about 15 foot. Even in a vehicle, more than likely IF he survived a 200 ft fall, he probably would have wished he did not. The world flowith over with jackholes!!!! And to those disbelievers, I think it is far more unbelievable that dumb asses like yourselves make it day to day. Booyaa!!!

Jager's absolutely right. What ****ing MORON(S) in the planning & works department of any jurisdiction would put a highway right next to a cliff?! Especially when (if the pictures are to be believed) there is plenty of land on that plateau area that could have been used. Toss the useless, moronic road planner(s) over that cliff for me would ya? Inbreds! Sheesh!

maybe that was the only suitable land to build the road on you derelict. are you a civil engineer now?

When the driver's out of the hospital, I bet he's gonna high-tail it to church on Sunday! :-)

Not photoshopped duechbags.

There are no houses directly below the culvert. You can tell from looking at the pictures that the water flows down the rock face which extends for quite some distance at the bottom of the canyon. I was in a similar accident where I flipped a Trailblazer end over end and landed facing the opposite direction in which I was traveling on the shoulder of the road - mere inches from oncoming traffic. And I walked away - so this is definitely plausible.

Lucky guy. As for the accident itself, stranger things have happened in other accidents. This just adds to the mystery of things, and to idiotic momments by 12 year olds.

Use Google Maps. 1000 E & 500 N, hurricane utah

This has been circulating for at least a year. The link from CNN claims that this happened on August 30, 2007... BS. Next time, check your references. Disappointed.

I saw a Honda Civic hit a tree going 80 mph and split in half. The front half came to rest 100 feet from the back half and the headlights and windshield wipers were still on. The driver got up out of her seat, walked over to me, and said "Where's Andre?" Other than bruises, she was fine. From that point on, I'd agree that nothing is impossible.

It seems the vehicle hit the concrete barrier at 75mph, and flipped end over end while skliding down the lower guide rail above the drainage tunnel. That guy needs to play the lottery too.

By the way, click on my name to read the article on this accident on CNN.com.

Anybody Not Believe there`s a God!!??

I see one of the guard rail posts bent pertty bad. it is possible he slid down the guardrail for a ways. without actually examining the accident scene and the truck it is impossible to tell if this is real or not.

Anybody not believe there's a Raymond?

Brad, it helps if you can read the article correctly, it states December 30th, not August 30th. Yes, it really did happen. No, the photo's have not been altered. Look at the CNN pics and you will clearly see the Firemen are standing, say about two to three feet away from the edge of the cliff. Also in the third pic from CNN, you can see that they have already cabled off the truck to prevent it from moving any more. In the last pic, above, you can see that one of the safety rope is looping down just below the cliff edge. As for it pouring water down on the houses below, there aren't any, if you look at the distance photo from space, you will clearly see tha the pour point is at the base of the cliff, some distance from any of the houses, however, I wouldn't want to be in those houses when it really rains out there, in the desert. Word to the wise. Only a fool believes that the impossible can't happen.

So much for all you Photoshop experts.

This is not photoshopped. I do this all the time when I drive. No biggie. Relax.

Wait a sec. This is not my idea of luck or being watched over by God. 1. If he was truly lucky he wouldn't have had the accident. 2. Since God is omnipotent he knew this was going to happen. He could have stopped it, but He let it happen. Sounds less like salvation than a stern warning.

Nothing like living on the edge!

Pretty cool, but welcome to last week. Posted on snopes.com back in January and February: www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp

FAKE And even if it was real, THERE IS NO GOD. When you die, that's it. Stop making up imaginary bearded men to cope with your fear of death.

The driver was clearly a liberl DemonCrat. He deserved to have his truck wrecked. There is no way our Lord would allow this to happen to a superior and mighty Republican. Vote Romney in 2008! It is our destiny!!

@raymond. why? because of all the people who do go over the edge? or because in this one case the laws of physics landed him in a safe location.

Why in Gods name are the rescue crew standing on that side of the vehicle? They should be on the drivers side in the even the truck rolls or they fall backward.

Some people don't understand a mirical when they see one. This man was truly BLESSED for this one. Someone was trying to get a point across and he needs to understand this. Remember, in a split second you can be gone.........

The coordinates seem to check out with the images. There really is a road with a barracade like this and on the other side of the barracade is a massive cliff drop off.

Is this a nother cliff hanger.....

Man, I posted a comment here as a joke. You folk from Utah take this stuff a little serious. Smile, have fun, play space invaders! PEACE BEUTCH!

so what ? get a life losers.

Amazing! He is one lucky guy.

I saw this on Newsdemon.com Hard to believe!

Not photoshoped. CNN.com just had an article about it. Crazy, the dude should thank God for his life.

bah, they probably just placed that truck there and knocked over the barricade. The truck would have been smashed to bits after crashing into that barricade. It would have also fallen down that pit... This is just staged

I think this is pretty amazing. Trying to imagine this scene being played out. Haha. The driver is lucky. It's good that both him and the truck lives!! :D A 1/1,000,000th chance this will happen.

It's for real. My best bud used to work for the ambulance corps here and he has a dozen insane stories all by himself. Freaky things like this happen all the time, only 99% aren't photo-documented and posted on the internet. www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/utah.crash/index.html

It is amazing to me that the comments being made with profanity, vulgarity, misspelled words and poor grammar ( not to mention the hostile and negativity, shall I go on?)...are sent in by people that have actually been able to master a computer keyboard and push a send button. They would have better spent their time learning the English language so they could express themselves in a way that others could understand them rather than pity them.

www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/utah.crash/index.html

Gosh yall are annoying!

If he went over, the ground would have broken his fall.

wow. i can't believe this accident has become a politico-theocrtic debate. ugh. a month ago, 2 assembly line workers at my factory were on their way to work at 4am eastern time. Meanwhile, several cows (owned by the father of an engineer who works on the same assembly line) escaped their pasture, ran a mile to the middle of the nearby main road. the first driver saw them, swerved, but the second driver did not have time and drive straight into the FIRST cow. his pick up flipped end over end, took out a telephone pole and landed on all four wheels. with a 2ND dead cow in the bed of the truck. oh, and for kickers, the driver who wrecked, actually made his last payment five days prior to totalling his truck. this is all true, i work at volvo in pennsylvania. and the accident happened in franklin county on US route 11.

The illiteracy of the posters here have become far more amusing than the photo. Do you ranters ever get out and interact with the real world? Do you ever hit your caps/lock key? When you don't live in the world, everything seems photoshopped. Get out and live a little, fellas!

that's awesome, probably changed this guys perspective on life completely

All you photoshop "experts" out there: Photoshop THIS: (1) Dig the license plate off the closeup rear of the truck (no more "rear-end jokes, ok?) (2) Blow it up (no more "Blow" job jokes, ok?) (3) Check out who is the owner/driver. (4) Stalk him down and confront him with all you're worth! (5) Have fun! Use Technology Before It Uses You (Up)!

www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/utah.crash/index.html GoofygalGone Wild is RITE! I ken see dat leesince plate rahl gud! Whar dat' ol' driber liven' anyhoo? Kenn't he rede, and andser his onen kwestuns herabouts? Hoo bin' teachin' dese iggorant fokes der anglich anyhoo?

I wonder if that driver can turn water to wine?

For anyone who cares to look at the site on Google Earth or a program like that, the coordinates are (roughly): 37° 10' 57.10" N 113° 16' 45.13" W It definitely gives you a better perspective on what happened... Oh, and for those who say the road planners should be killed for putting a road next to a cliff, please note that the road ascends from the base to the top of the cliff, which is kinda hard to do without at some point actually being next to the cliff.

The accident is real, but the 3rd guy from the right's shirt in the first picture is photoshopped. FOR REALZ.

A very legitimate reason to crap your pants.........

Don't put a road next to a cliff? Are you people retarded?! Have you ever been to Big Sur?!

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does anyone understand this? After crashing through the barricade, the truck slammed into a concrete drainage culvert on the canyon side of the guardrail. The force of the impact propelled the pickup truck into the air, spinning it 180 degrees counter-clockwise along a guardrail. Did you know the little so called CULVERT can sit 2 and a Half trucks side by side? Did you know its not a drain pipe? What did you think the city shoves water up hill to let it drain out over top of property used 24/7 for busness? Does anyone know what a CULVERT is? I have a CULVERT under my driveway so whater doesnt build up for simple reasons! Ice back up, lost of property, City hiway damage and so on. From the number of pics I have seen, why would someone take great effort in messin with all those photos, and yes it does look like 1 of them have been messed with but really its because of the camera and distance, had to be a digital 1 at that! only for issues like this. Do you honestly think the media, police and the myth busters would jeperdize themselves like this. If that was my truck and me in it, and it never happened like that at all, I seen this crap! where someone Photo Shops this and the Media, Police and mythbuster acts in on it! I would be so, so, so rich! that Bill Gates would work for me. All this crap for people not reading the report. Its clear and shows it as well. Whats next people? Elvis comes back as the Messiah.......

I’m just wondering a few things here: First, in the “satellite image” photo why is the land area where the truck is all flat with buildings and such. But in the other photos there are big hills/mountains? Second. He flipped over a water drainage culvert. But if you notice in the “satellite image” photo way down below at the bottom is like a small town with building and houses. Also it looks like a small road directly below snaking around the bottom of the mountain. So since the town and road is directly below the water drainage culvert, does it flood the town and road when a heavy rain comes? Just wondering here.

This all happened because he's a polygamist. It's well known that Hurricane is a polygamist town as it is close to Colorado City. Yall need to get more wives. God loves polygamists, He told me so. Amen.

it's not the fall that kills you. It is the sudden stop.

Hey MO Dont you have some mail to deliver

If this guy was the luckiest guy on earth, he wouldn't have left the road to begin with!

Without knowing more I would find it hard to believe that a vehicle traveling between 80-85 mph and leaving skid mark over 90 ft would have enough momentum left to knock down that concrete barrier, bend the guard rail and hurl itself 20-25 feet end over end. Fake? I wouldn't bet my slimey soul on it... however, if you put it to a vote I would have to go with yes. And if it did really happen I would give it a pucker factor of 9.8

YEA I HAVE SEEN MIRACAILS AND I HAVE LIVED ONE JUST BE BLESSED BROTHER IF THIS IS FAKE MAY THE FAVOR BE TURNED TO YOU...........

I THINK THIS WAS PHOTOSHOPPED.

Hey Brad (commented on September 6, 2007) , you might want to visit www.hookedonphonics.com. Were do you get August? www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/06/utah.crash/index.html From CNN: (CNN) -- What started as a few seconds of terror for a driver in Utah has become a set of photos so unbelievable they're making their rounds on the Web's myth-busting circuit. Fire personnel respond to the scene of the December 30 accident in which no one was critically hurt. On December 30, an Arizona driver, whose name is redacted from police records because of Utah law, was driving east along State Route 59, a canyon road just outside Hurricane, a city of 12,000 located 135 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.

I live in Hurricane, West Virginia so I think I am qualifyed to give an opinon. Thuis is the wiorst photoshopp job ive seen to date. Thanks gfor you r time.

yes you did Bill. I ran the camera, remember?

The metal fence was not moved, it's simply a matter of perspective. Geez no wonder people think the moon landing photos were faked.

1980 Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Rt. 84 just west of Sunrise Blvd. I was driving a Totoya after a little too much to drink. Road construction/median work going on. Left side of car left road, flipped over and spun around, leaving car facing east bound straddled on east bound left lane shoulder/median.

la la la conect the dots

No way.. definitely fake pictures. Those rescue workers would not be on that side of the car. A total sham.

We landed on the moon?

Phototshoped -- FAKE!

Glave, I love your comment... this guy needs to play the lottery!! Either that or pick me some numbers!

This guy had someone watching over him. Thank god he did survive.

It could happen. We jump all the time in the general lee. YEEE-HAWW

CeeCee & There is no god, thanks for putting my thoughts into words. Much appreciated.

Its fake!!! It's all fake!!! Your fake, I'm fake, This world is fake!!! Shit, God created the Universe with Adobe Photoshop!!! We are all binaries!!!

they airbrushed my car. Kit is really sitting there

Come on this is photoshoped,. I know it is. No way Jose.

If there's anything that'll make you believe in divine intervention...it's THAT set of circumstances.

Folks...these things happen. I myself was looking down toward the floorboards while going 45 mph through an intersection (stupid) when a car pulled directly in my path. I never saw it, but T-Boned that car, fipping it over and sending it spinning down the street on it's top for over 200 ft. Me? My Nissan Frontier 4d slid sideways into a 12" Curb at speed, and flipped sideways 3 times in a tight barrel roll, landing on it's wheels between a 18" diameter telephone pole and a Electrical Transformer with 12" on each side. I was told that I undid my seat belt, brushed aside the Airbag, got out, stood up, and collasped...out like a light. To this day, I have no reccolection of the events beyond looking down. I got "Airbagged" obviously...but hey...I left memphis for Maui the next day. Question...but never discount the impossible.

Dear Dirk, You are one of the biggest reasons why people in the United States think people in West Virginia are Hillbilly's. #1. Read the story. It clearly says it happened in Utah. FYI-that's another state in our glorious Union. #2. Hurricane, a city of 12,000 located 135 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada...I don't think Vegas is that close to WV. By the way, Nevada is yet another state in our glorious Union. #3 Look at the picture. Doesn't it kinda look like a desert? I've been to WV and I don't recall seeing a desert...not to be confused with a dessert. Hang in there Dirk, the rest of us will get you through life.

it was a microsoft product! our product would make that look better

It could happen, I guess. Stranger things have. www.ronnierayjenkins.com

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lol

I SAID IT WAS PHOTOSHOPED YOU MORON AND SAID I WAS FROMM WEST VIRGINIA (HURRICANE). IDIOT

Man, I so needed the laugh today. You guys ROCK! Whether it is real or not, who cares. It is just so funny!

PLEASE STOP USING PROFANITY

I like jube jubes

Such intelligent comments on here, further proof the internet has not been a tool of education but just a forum for whackos and teenagers to use filthy language. We need retro active birth control!

lol nice 1.

Holy Guacamole!

I WILL REPORT YOU FOR PROFANITY. WE USE THIS AS A SERIOUS PLACE TO TALK NOT THIS IMMATURE FILTHY TALK... LEAVE NOW!

Can anyone tell me which way to the men's room?

Get me a glove that dont fit. I'll fix this

What would have been really wierd is if he ended up getting out of the passenger side of the truck and fell down the cliff!! Talk about irony then!!

I just went to CNN to read this and was directed to this page. I must say, I'm quite disappointed in some of the people on here that actually take up space on this earth. Do any of you have anything better to do other than sit and banter on sites such as this. Seriously, this is ridiculous. This is a good reminder why I (and most other sane people) stay away from this crap. Oh, and most