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Title: Even the dead can still be hero and save the day?
Post by: theking on April 24, 2023, 06:25:24 PM

Body of organ donor helps save hearse driver after crash leaves car dangling over Colorado canyon

An organ donor helped save the life of a person in a very unexpected way in Colorado when a hearse crashed and nearly plunged into a canyon — but the weight from the deceased organ donor in the back helped keep the teetering car from a fatal fall.


CBS News Colorado reported the snowy night of Jan. 29, 2023, was a difficult one to drive to for Hubbard and Son's funeral home service, mostly because of the other drivers. One of the company's employees was transferring a body in the back of a hearse from Grand Junction to another location for organ donation, but told Colorado State Patrol a driver in a red Durango went speeding by him on his way up towards the Eisenhower Tunnel.

He said he switched lanes to get out of the way of the erratic driver, and lost control in the snowstorm around 3 a.m., hurtling towards the barrier on the edge of the road.

His hearse crashed through the barrier, teetering over the side of Interstate 70, and a fatal drop, but came to a stop, front wheels suspended over the canyon. While the driver and his family declined an on camera interview, they told CBS News Colorado the weight from the body in the back of the car likely kept the car on the road, and therefore stopped the hearse from hurtling over the side of I-70. He said it saved his life, no doubt.

"That's a lucky mother*****r right there," a responding law enforcement officer is heard saying while walking towards the vehicle, suspended as if frozen in time, almost perfectly balanced half-on and half-off.
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Title: Re: Even the dead can still be hero and save the day?
Post by: DuMa on April 24, 2023, 06:55:31 PM

This makes me think of a way to put in my will that after I die, drop me off an airplane without a parachute.   :2funny:

I mean, you are already dead, how bad can it be?