Famed race driver Mark Donohue died after an accident which was seemingly benign. Turned out he had a few busted blood vessels in the head and after complaining of a headache for a few hours, he collapsed and died several hours later in the hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. So I think AotL’s caution is well founded, tho if the paramedics checked you out good I’m sure you’re fine.
I hearily second Just Another Geek’s recommendation. My sister was leaving the races at Daytona several years ago and she got hit in the head by a 4X8 board which some moron had failed to remove from the roof of his RV, knocking her unconscious. She was taken to the OR of course and they stitched up her scalp and pronounced her OK. She seemed OK and felt OK. A day or 2 later my mother, who’s a former RN, noticed that one of her pupils had shrunk to a pinpoint. My mom immediately rushed her to the ER, where a scan revealed that she had a cerebral hemmorhage and blood was pooling at the bottom of her brain. She immediately had surgery, and was OK because of it, but the docs said that if she hadn’t had the surgery in a timely fashion, she might easily have died.
Those traumatic accidents are nothing to fool around with.
I got whiplash 15 years ago. I still have pains. I didn’t think anything was wrong. It developed over a period of a week, but I was too busy to get it checked out.
I was stupid.
Pffft!
I’ve been poisoned, stabbed, shot, hanged, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered by my people. And I still came back! It wasn’t until I crossed paths with Bill Murray that my luck ran out.
Yours,
Vigo the Carpathian
You bring up a good point, tires are designed to come off when you hit 85 mph. Good thing he wasn’t doing 90, as the Ford Ranger is designed to explode at that speed. It’s a safety feature.
You are one LUCKY monkey. Glad you’re okay.
I bet the governor of New Jersey is saying this to himself right about now.
Glad you’re okay.
I’m sure he would be partly liable for exceeding the speed limit. On this page it says that exceeding the speed limit is “not recommended” by tire manufacturers. However, about halfway down there’s a speed rating table, with examples in the right hand column. The example for an 87 mph rating is “temporary spare tires.”
I’m so glad you’re OK, and sorry you had to miss the funeral.
There may be an upside. If you have any sort of charisma, you might have a television career doing PSAs for seatbelt use, or as a spokesman for Ford.
Never buy Firestone tires. Never. Michelin, Pirelli, Goodyear, all fine. Firestone/Bridgestone = death
Nice to hear you’re okay.
Now close the thread. Never a good idea to blab about lawsuits in progress, especially when you reveal facts (like your speed) that aren’t in your favor.