Close call

[Gary D.]

This week I’m doing our annual training for the department. Half of patrol trains this week and half next week to get all our certs up to date (not diving). As a result I’m on day shift. ;(

So I get home around 1600. The wife and I have a business open house we need to be at sometime after 1700. We get there at 1722 and as I’m parking the radio station has a traffic alert. “If you are traveling on Hwy-97 use caution. We just received a report that a car is over the embankment at Beauty Bay and emergency personal are responding.”

I look at the wife and say if it’s not in the water it’s close. So at 1723 I call dispatch and ask if it’s in the lake or not. They tell me it was so close it may have gotten wet but was still on solid ground.

Another lucky I don’t know how to drive in North Idaho weather yahoo. :shakehead

Gary D.

 

[Gary D.]

I’m glad I didn’t put any money on this one because I would have lost it.

I just found out that a vehicle did in fact go over the embankment and just miss the water. I would have put money on it being another yahoo in an SUV but it wasn’t. It was a 1989 Chevy Celebrity and it was, only in Idaho :shakehead a non-reportable accident.

Gary D.

 

[Boater Dan]

Gary:

I'm glad that you had the opportuntiy to spend the time "uninterrupted" with your better half. However, how did the radio station find out about the call before you received a tone out?

Stay safe.

Dan

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

It was a 1989 Chevy Celebrity and it was, only in Idaho :shakehead a non-reportable accident.

Dunno about ONLY in Idaho. In California, from http://www.dmv.ca.gov/forms/sr/sr1.htm

If you are involved in a vehicle accident that occurred in California, you must report it to DMV if:

* There was property damage of more than $750 ($500 for accidents prior to January 1, 2003) or
* Anyone was injured (no matter how minor) or
* Anyone was killed.

Since I doubt that '89 Celebrity was worth $750, if they went off slow, were belted in,
and nobody got a scratch, it's non-reportable in CA too.

 

[Gary D.]

Dunno about ONLY in Idaho. In California, from http://www.dmv.ca.gov/forms/sr/sr1.htm

If you are involved in a vehicle accident that occurred in California, you must report it to DMV if:

* There was property damage of more than $750 ($500 for accidents prior to January 1, 2003) or
* Anyone was injured (no matter how minor) or
* Anyone was killed.

Since I doubt that '89 Celebrity was worth $750, if they went off slow, were belted in,
and nobody got a scratch, it's non-reportable in CA too.

Ours are over $1500.00, All H&R, All injury or death.

I was refering to a driver being on a good level streach of road with guard rails running off the road, going over the embankment and missing the water when there is nothing to stop them. The only unguarded area is a short distance on each side of the marina.
http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=12&Z=11&X=655&Y=6591&W=1

That entire streach was good for several calls a year befor they put in guard rails. It goes from road to 70' right now.

Gary D.