Tail of the Dragon rockslide, and inattentive driver!

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/03/15/von.tn.rock.slide.wbir?hpt=T2

It looks like he put the car in reverse half way over the pile!

Okay, if this loads an unrelated video, look for the "Tennessee Rock Slide" link.

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=115853

I'll stop now.

Aside for a 20 second ad for a 15 second video, the first link worked fine for me.

What an idiot.

Wow, how did he not see that! I could understand if he was just hauling too much ass to stop, but to get out of the car and say "I didn't even see it!". That's impressive.

In reply to 16vCorey:

My guess is that he was watching the police and camera crews at the side of the road.

Damn rubber neckers... I hope he lost all four tires and both oil pans...

Kramer wrote: It looks like he put the car in reverse half way over the pile!

I'd bet that while that rock was making its way through the transmission pan it moved the shift linkage, or he had his hand on the shifter on impact.

"Im alrigh"

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: "Im alrigh"

My 6 year old daughter is a complete klutz. She'll fall down "I'm ok!" She's goofy.

He was probably texting.

ya'll sure that ain't a woman with a mustache?

Dogs, peanut butter, and twisty roads don't mix.

Poor dude was 20MPH and a foot in the throttle away from being my berkeleying hero.

Cop cars, flashing lights, heavy equipment; they musta distracted him.

In reply to spitfirebill:

never been to the dragon before? There is no cell phone coverage in that area at all.

Joey

I second the rock-through-the-tranny-pan idea.

Stupid stupid stupid. I'll probably do worse at some point in my life, though.

Idiot.

that car will be on a used car lot within 30 days............

When traffic's slow because everyone ahead is looking at something on the side of the freeway, as we pass by and the clown in front of me is looking over, it's all I can do to not lay on the horn

joey48442 wrote: In reply to spitfirebill: never been to the dragon before? There is no cell phone coverage in that area at all. Joey

So he was probably looking, dumbfounded, at his phone, wondering why his text wouldn't 'send'.

This guys about ready to sue toyota.

In reply to RealMiniDriver:

True!

Joey

I think I found how I want to give a car a proper send off

Here's your sign

"Watch for Fallen Rock"

He thought he could jump it