Roll over on Hackett gulch (1 Viewer)

[karas]

I guess a 24 year old passed away in this. Pretty sad but I thought I would let you guys know.

http://mallcrawlin.com/forum/showth...el-Hacket-Gulch-in-the-last-few-days&p=336378

 

[karas]

Here is a different link

http://www.gazette.com/articles/crash-146239-service-forest.html#ixzz29wmaE7Sg

 

[Man Jerk]

This is absolutely terrible. Somebody doing something they love and they lose their life.

A good friend of mine died climbing N Maroon peak this summer, doing what he loved to do.

A horrible thing to lose someone that young.

 

[CO_Hunter]

That is terrible news. Does anybody know who it was or where/how it happened?

 

[black95]

This illustrates how very important it is to be wearing a seatbelt while four wheeling.

To me, that's the only explanation for this. Personally, I've been involved in five rollovers in all ways, over backwards, over forward, and barrel rolled multiple times--once in the back of a bronco with no top.... And I'm still here because I was ALWAYS belted in. Just brush the glass out of your hair, pull it back over and drive home.

I realize a lot of you might call me out on this because it looks like I'm never wearing one in the 4runner, but I do, it has lap belts in it

 

[EricG]

Some pictures from the comments of the gazette story: http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums...acket Gulch - 21 Oct 2012 MJ run/DSCF2802.jpg

Couldn't get to the gallery, but you can see more by incrementing the jpg number in the url.

Roof is crushed in - not sure a seatbelt would have helped but it's hard to tell

 

[CO_Hunter]

A little more information from another forum.

http://www.colorado4x4.org/vbb/show...ver-Fatality&p=2071883&viewfull=1#post2071883