Jacksonville Fire Department and Applegate Valley Fire District #9 responded March 13, 2022, to the crash on Highway 238 and Wagon Trail Road. The vehicle had rolled down the embankment, but there were no reported injuries. When they got there, they found what looks like a Subaru Tribeca laying on its roof next to an old car that had been there for a long time, given the moss on its roof. News reports did not identify this old car, but we all know that it’s obviously a 1956 Chevy wagon.
Are they going to leave the Subaru there, haul it out, and leave the Chevy, or haul out both of them? I vote for the first option.
Would be nice if they leave the Subaru there and in future you have 2 cars with moss on them from 2 different eras there. But I think, given todays care about the enviroment, and maybe some insurance things, they haul it out and leave the Chevy there.
Is this public land? I believe the Chevy couldn’t be removed without an archaeological assessment. Nominally it is old enough to be left in place; certainly any oil/gasoline leaks are long dissipated. Unfortunately not the case for the Subaru.
Leave the Subaru.
Take the Chevy.
The Chevy’s Nomad days are over.
At first glance I thought it was an overturned Edsel rather than a Subaru. The grilles look very similar.
One more Subaru Tribeca wiped out…(maybe) arguably the ugliest car in recent memory. No loss. I hope the same can be said of Subaru occupants as in the commercial of a while back:
“They Lived.” Perhaps that could actually be credited to the 1956 Chevrolet which stopped their roll downhill.
It’s the beginning of a “body farm” for vehicular forensics.
The results of no stability control and overconfident drivers reliant on stability control
More likely the results of looking at the phone and too much to drink.
Did you know that at one time there was no Chinese symbol for “car crash”?
That is because cars did not exist long ago.
China has always existed, but long ago was referred to by such names as “Here” or “Over There” or “Way Over There”.
There is a key to every puzzle and a pattern to every lock. You just have to find it.
Solutions, people. Remember coffee is for closers. Unclosers only get an Tab® from the old machine at the junkyard.
Leave both cars and add more until they reach the road, and this will prevent more slides down the hill. (It will not prevent fires because only you can do that. Sorry about putting it all on you but that’s the rule)
Solutions.
Words ‘n’ sh*t.
-The Mann.
Well the Subaru will have to be removed as a possible crime scene. The driver might have been drinking or drugging or texting or whatever and be guilty of some heinous crime because he/she then ran off the road. Or perhaps just a lousy driver, in which case the results are the same, but it’s ok, legally to drive off the road if you’re incompetent. Or it might be insured in which case the insurance company might be obligated to spend a thousand to recover it, in order to then sell it to a junkyard for a couple of hundred.
But semantics aside, it should and I’m sure will be recovered. The Chevy is another story and is now history, not debris, and I would hope would remain there. Thought I’d throw in another bit of history.
I used to know where quite a few oldies were left where they landed in the San Gabriel Mountains, good to hear no one died here .
That old truck is an oil well rig I *think* .
-Nate
Where I grew up, at the base of the Niagara Escarpment there is a side trail that brings you up to the Bruce Trail at the end of our street. Seven or eight year old me discovered a couple of cars a little off the beaten path up near the top. We used to hike up there and play around with the old cars. Farmers along the top would get rid of their old eyesores by pushing them over the edge. The forest would stop them before they got too far down. Unfortunately they landed where the shade of the cliff keeps the snow around the longest and year after year you could see subtle changes in how much was left of them. I was last there more than ten years ago and they are very hard to find now as they slowly return to the earth and what’s left slides ever so slowly down the hill. Maybe when the snow melts I will see if I can find any evidence of what was once there and jog some fifty year old memories.
Reminds me of my crazy uncle Harold.
To avoid one accident he hit the ditch and wound up hitting another car that had been there a few hours waiting for a tow.
Yep, totaled both cars.