Tractor wreck update

Jonak · Jun 21, 2012

Just a note on my B I L Tractor, truck wreck. Tractor driver injuries are

Injuries are: MANY fractured ribs
fractured right scapula
vertebrae T 12 and L 1 fractured
right lung compressed - they are draining the blood and moving it through a contraption and putting it back in him
concussion.....hemorrhage in the right side.

He is hanging in there, will be in Hospital 3 weeks or longer. Thanks Much for your interest and Prayers!!

John_PA · Jun 21, 2012

Is this the wreck?

If so, then we must all thank God he is alive. When I saw that picture I got chills. It's becoming more of a problem, lately. This is not a good time to get on my high horse about overcrowded roads and speed limits that are ignored, but, I just can't help but think how this problem is getting worse. Instead, I'll focus my prayers on a full recovery for him and wish your family the best.

I am also reminded of how I must thank God that I, nor anyone else was hurt when I was hit by a truck, head-on, on my tractor. My sister was standing a few feet from teh roadside with her infant baby in teh car beside her. How no one got hurt that day, I still don't quite understand.

I earnestly wish him the best.

Jonak · Jun 21, 2012

Yes, that is the wreck I was referring to. Thank you bunches for your concern and prayers. The impact threw him off the tractor, or who knows. The Lord was indeed with him!!

Scott 730 · Jun 21, 2012

Truly a miracle to get out of that alive. What model tractor was that? Assuming that the ROPS failed from the severity of the crash?

buickanddeere · Jun 21, 2012

Is that a divided multi-lane highway with limited
access?
Wreck may have been different with a rops and seat
belt.

fixerupper · Jun 21, 2012

My prayers certainly go out to him. If he would have had a rops and was belted in he still would have been whipped around severly. Maybe being thown was the best thing in this situation. Anyway, it's a very bad situation and I hope he can come out of it OK. When I was in my young teens I had to help pull a severly injured man out from under a tractor and carry him out of the ditch to the ambulance. You never forget that. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Jun 22, 2012

Versus a semi, a roll bar would only do so much. It's a roll bar and they are usually rated for 1 1/2 times the tractor weight in a roll over. A high speed collision with a truck is a far cry from a roll over. I bet the roll bar would have crumpled up and/or snapped all the bolts off in that collision. A seat belt may have killed him in this instance. Sure hope he recovers.

BushogPapa · Jun 22, 2012

Hope he recovers well...

Don't forget to keep after the Police, to Charge the truck Driver...
GET a Copy (Photo-Copy) of his Log Book entries for that day and the prior Week...
There are far too many Jokers out there NOT fit to drive a tricycle.....
Man, that wreck looks awful..
"BEST WISHES" for his Recovery...
Ron..

Super Trucker · Jun 22, 2012

He's a mighty lucky man to be alive. I hope all heals well. Pilot is going to have a lot explaining to do.

buickanddeere · Jun 22, 2012

Seems to be a lot of people out there who are certain that safety equipment kills and maims more people than it protects.

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