This was from another forum and I don't know it's origin or have photos to back up the story.


This is one of those one in a million shots that would leave any Jeep owner
laughing…after they’re done crying.
The owner was out on the trail, driving cautiously, when out of nowhere a
small tree decided to enter the cabin via the firewall and impede his progress.
Good thing it wasn’t a few inches over or he would have been a shish ka bob.
He ended up with $250 worth of damage (It looks worse, doesn’t it?), some
bruises, and oh, some internal injuries.
Read the full account and see some more pictures after the jump. (Ouch.)

This is what the guy posted up on the Jeep forum after his rig got speared:
(He’s ok, just a little bruised.)

“What was originally planned to be a nice easy New Years Day Run got
sideways on me very quickly.
I believe what happened was that my drivers front tire caught the tip of a
fallen tree that was laying paralell to the trail and it kicked it up or
turned it in such a way as to jump up a bit and i was travelling at just the right
speed and and at just the right angle ( i think the tree missed everthing
but the brake line before it hit the firewall ) to drive it through the
firewall upwards between the clutch and brake pedal grazing my groin and hitting me
in the left side of my stomach pinning me to the seat. It happened really
fast and very violently and i think the driver behind me had a better view of
what happened but that’s the best i can describe it. i’ve driven over logs and
branches before and never even considered the idea of one coming up through
the floor. i guess like any time i get hurt i always think that i could have
been more careful, but it still seems like a one in a million type thing (
everyone who witnessed the accident seems to agree ).
Thankfully I was wheeling with a group and they were able to transport me
out to get medical attention. They also took care of my Jeep and have made it
so much easier for me to concentrate on healing. I am forever grateful for
there help. Thanks again Ian, Tom, Blair, Martin and the rest of the guys.
I wasn’t being careless, but in the future I will certainly be more careful.
I’ve heard of other incidents similar to mine since it happened, but never
before. Please be safe on the trails.
As you can see in the pics, i have some damage to my torso ( my ” boys ”
also took a hard shot and are swollen to 3 times normal size and are dark
purple ). There was internal bleeding that stopped on it’s own without surgery,
and i have damage to my kidney and bowel that require another visit to the
trauma Doctor. In the meantime i have some time off work to heal, I am very
swollen/ bruised/ stiff and sore but everything seems to be working OK.
there is a small peice of tree missing from the pics that i had to break off
in order to exit my Jeep.”

 

repost x1000

there are several threads about it on here as well as a thread from the guy who was driving the Jeep

 

It's been posted, and reposted on every jeep site out there.

 

being a firefighter I see some really crazy sh!t out there.
I once responded to a car accident where a couple tried to enter a parking lot at night and did not see the 2" steel pipe gate.
The pipe went thru the floor board just behind the pass. front tire, went thru the glove box, between the front seats and pierced the rear seats.
They both walked away uninjured.