Jeep Accident - into mine shaft

Here is a photo for you

http://home.comcast.net/~rmontierth/...ruckinhole.jpg

That is a photo I of a vertical mine shaft, at the bottom (approx 60 feet
but the photo does not look like it), is a willy's pickup. It is usually
difficult to see the jeep, but this guy was able to get a good photo of it.
A neighbor of mine actually was driving, went over a hill (tailing pile),
through a fence, and into the shaft. The jeep had a well build cage that
kind of rattled it's way to the bottom saving both of their lives. The
passenger was able to climb out of the shaft using the fence that was drug
down with them, and call for help. The driver was rescued approx 8 hours
later by search and rescue who had to extract him from the wreck. This
must have happened close to 15 years go, it is just a story that has
recently surfaced again because someone else notice the jeep in the mine.
Thought I would share.

I think it happens often. I could only find one Jeep in this
Colorado mine shaft page:
http://mining.state.co.us/abanondonedmines/danger.html The last one I
remember was in California, where two people in a Jeep survive the fall,
but a week latter start a fire as a smoke signal, it did bring the
rescuers that found their suffocated bodies.
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Rusted wrote:
>
> Here is a photo for you
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~rmontierth/...ruckinhole.jpg
>
> That is a photo I of a vertical mine shaft, at the bottom (approx 60 feet
> but the photo does not look like it), is a willy's pickup. It is usually
> difficult to see the jeep, but this guy was able to get a good photo of it.
> A neighbor of mine actually was driving, went over a hill (tailing pile),
> through a fence, and into the shaft. The jeep had a well build cage that
> kind of rattled it's way to the bottom saving both of their lives. The
> passenger was able to climb out of the shaft using the fence that was drug
> down with them, and call for help. The driver was rescued approx 8 hours
> later by search and rescue who had to extract him from the wreck. This
> must have happened close to 15 years go, it is just a story that has
> recently surfaced again because someone else notice the jeep in the mine.
> Thought I would share.

Many years ago, I was stationed at an air base in the high desert. We would
occasionally help out on search and rescue. We responded to a missing dirt
bike rider. Seems the night before he had been drinking and took off on the
bike. Anyway, we found him later that day. He had ridden into a vertical
shaft. After we repelled down and lifted him out on a stokes, his buddies
waned us to winch out the bike. Guess its still there. Probably should try
to find it some day just to see.


"Rusted" > wrote in message
.. .
> Here is a photo for you
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~rmontierth/...ruckinhole.jpg
>
> That is a photo I of a vertical mine shaft, at the bottom (approx 60 feet
> but the photo does not look like it), is a willy's pickup. It is usually
> difficult to see the jeep, but this guy was able to get a good photo of
> it. A neighbor of mine actually was driving, went over a hill (tailing
> pile), through a fence, and into the shaft. The jeep had a well build
> cage that kind of rattled it's way to the bottom saving both of their
> lives. The passenger was able to climb out of the shaft using the fence
> that was drug down with them, and call for help. The driver was rescued
> approx 8 hours later by search and rescue who had to extract him from the
> wreck. This must have happened close to 15 years go, it is just a story
> that has recently surfaced again because someone else notice the jeep in
> the mine. Thought I would share.
>
>
>

That would make a darn good entry in a 'worst stuck' photo contest.
TrailMarker