Ooof. Bronco torn up a bit

[BroncoBeachBuggy]

Looks like this hunter was driving quite fast down a dirt road and hit a gully in his BL. Airbags deployed. Just a little lesson on what can happen with some Baja style driving unless you already really know the road/lay of the land from previous driving - and no recent heavy rain to form a new gully.

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[EasternSierra]

I did something a bit similar in my 4WD pickup a few years ago. I was on a nice, wide, smooth paved road that branched off the highway. There was no traffic so I went fairly fast. Then I noticed that the road narrowed up ahead and it went over a hump with a fence on both sides. Bushes at the fence obscured the terrain immediately beyond the fence.

I slowed down to maybe 20 mph, but noticed too late that just past the hump the pavement ended and there was a drop-off into a stream. My truck went airborne and landed in the creek making a big splash. Fortunately there was no damage (confirmed later by my shop) and no traction problems getting out of the stream onto the continuation of the road. The water may have cushioned my truck's fall somewhat because it didn't hit the cobble stream bottom all that hard.

I went a little farther up that rough road and decided to turn back, not really trusting myself to handle what was coming up ahead. On the way back there was no problem crossing the stream slowly and climbing up the embankment to get to the beginning of pavement.

My reaction time and judgment at the time may have been impaired a bit by the health conditions I was suffering from. This incident was a real wake-up call for me and had me questioning if I should even be off-roading anymore.

Since then I've had a major operation and those health problems are gone. My mind is sharper now, but this was another lesson learned.

 

[helifino16]

Find someone that can 'buff' that out.

 

[userdude]

I did something a bit similar in my 4WD pickup a few years ago. I was on a nice, wide, smooth paved road that branched off the highway. There was no traffic so I went fairly fast. Then I noticed that the road narrowed up ahead and it went over a hump with a fence on both sides. Bushes at the fence obscured the terrain immediately beyond the fence.

I slowed down to maybe 20 mph, but noticed too late that just past the hump the pavement ended and there was a drop-off into a stream. My truck went airborne and landed in the creek making a big splash. Fortunately there was no damage (confirmed later by my shop) and no traction problems getting out of the stream onto the continuation of the road. The water may have cushioned my truck's fall somewhat because it didn't hit the cobble stream bottom all that hard.

I went a little farther up that rough road and decided to turn back, not really trusting myself to handle what was coming up ahead. On the way back there was no problem crossing the stream slowly and climbing up the embankment to get to the beginning of pavement.

My reaction time and judgment at the time may have been impaired a bit by the health conditions I was suffering from. This incident was a real wake-up call for me and had me questioning if I should even be off-roading anymore.

Since then I've had a major operation and those health problems are gone. My mind is sharper now, but this was another lesson learned.

I hit some bomb-shaped ruts late one night, in the dark, that washed out around some tree roots way out in the deep forest in East Texas once; was lucky I only had to get an alignment on that one. How it didn't rip my axle off, I don't know.

Another time I was deep in the Ozark forest, same truck, where they have these maintained mountain roads. They aren't paved but a lot of them have gravel and some even have stop signs. It was really late, moonlit night. So I got going about 50mph and was like, man, I can't believe I'm going this fast, trees and brush flying by. Then it suddenly curved and narrowed and both my mirrors got hit and pushed in, and I passed a deer I got within a foot of hitting.

I lot of stupid crap can happen late at night in the forest. lol

 

[AZ_Craig]

Unfortunately also kind of been here. Shortly after getting my 2012 Jeep Wrangler JKU I was out exploring a relatively benign trail north of Phoenix with a friend (I think Charles' Wells at that point rated it moderate in his Funktreks books). I think it was February and we had quite a bit of rain that year.

On the way out to the look-out (and turn-around point) we came by a really severe new washout that had cut probably 40% of the road out (you could still squeeze by on the shelf road against the cliff side). Was easy to see in this orientation (slightly down hill from your vantage point). I remember even thinking to myself: "I need to be careful here on my way back."

Long story short, on the way back I was even thinking: "Where is that new wash out?" Came up a rise at about 12 mph and around a turn and drove right into it. Vehicle landed on its frame hard and one of my rear tires went off the ground at least a foot. Cracked my front axle and was leaking differential fluid, bent my lower control arms and to drive straight the wheel had to be turned at nearly 90 degrees. Miracously I was able to get it home the ~80 miles keeping it in RWD and trying to hold my speed around 60 mph or less. Fortunately the trail wasn't so difficult from this point that I could easily get it out in 2WD.

Ultimately it was a $1000 mistake since I ran it through my insurance collisoin policy and I got a Terraflex rebuild on the front end working through State Farm ($4700 in damage though back over 10 years ago). To this day I feel like a complete ass as it's the most damage I've done to a vehicle in the last 25 years.

 

[Felix808]

Blood stains!
Speed Kills!
Fresh Girls!
Fine wine!
I lost my sense!
I lost control I lost my mind!

Great song

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