Bad Glamis crash

VBosch02

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So I had a pretty bad crash in Glamis this past weekend. It's the first time I have ever rolled in any kind of vehical. First off, I had the opportunity to go past Joey’s camp and meet him and offroadswapmeet. Nice to meet you guys by the way! I didn’t stay long because they were getting their camp set up and I wanted to give them there space. Anyway, a couple hours after meeting them I had pretty gnarly crash with my rzr s. I was going wide open through the valley leaving hill 3 and came into a slight left hander when I got up on the passenger side two wheels and started bicycling. I almost had it corrected but two wheeled it into a plant which had a mound of dirt around it causing me to flip from my passenger side two wheels onto the front driver side roof. I planted the cage into the ground probably at around 30 mph and continued to do two summersaults end over end into a huge bush resting on the driver side of the car. When the dust settled I found that I had no light bar left and the driver side light housing had broken out. That’s the small stuff. Upon further inspection I found that the cage had some major damage. The driver side front cage had bent back 2 inches and down about 1 inch. From the cage begin pushed back it cracked the weld on the top of the B pillar. The driver side door has been pushed back and cracked some welds. Pretty much the cage is junk and needs to be replaced. Last but not least the passenger side rear axle looks like a rainbow.

Out of all of this I can say, thank God that I had the safety equipment in my car that I did. The cage did its job to keep my friend and myself safe and the master craft 5 point seat belts did the job of holding us in our place. Without the safety equipment I don’t think we would have walked away from this crash. I have some pictures of the damage. They don’t do justice to how violent of a crash this really was. They say there are two kinds of drivers, those that have crashed and those who have yet to crash. When you do, I hope you have the safety equipment to save yourself from a lot of pain. I know that from now on I will be wearing helmets in my sxs as well.
I added some pictures of the rzr after the crash.



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<O:p>The weld cracked above driver head.</O:p>

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Door pused back

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Cage bent down on driver side. light bar done.
 
DAMN!! Well it was good meeting you guys Ryan. I am so sorry to read and see this. But I am glad you are ok! Things like this can be repaired! Just part of the game!
 
parts can be replaced, comming out of the crash without injury is great.

make sure to pick a good strong cage when you replace it. maybe even talk to the builder of the first one and see if he offers a test dummy discount, haha
 
parts can be replaced, comming out of the crash without injury is great.

make sure to pick a good strong cage when you replace it. maybe even talk to the builder of the first one and see if he offers a test dummy discount, haha

Haha test dummy! I can say I don't like being that. I don't know who built the cage I got it off of a guy from S.D. I'm have G4 products do my new cage to BITD standards. I want to start racing anyway and it's a good reason to get the cage done right this time. :D
 
That does not look like a good time, glad to read you are okay.
It is a real reminder of how important the safety stuff is.
 
Glad you were able to walk away from a crash like that.

We had two rzr-s roll on the same dune at night. One rolled 5 times and the other 1 1/2. The only reason we know how many times they rolled is you could see the prints of the roof and tires in the sand for each roll. No one was injured and the only damage was cosmetic stuff. Both had stock cages.
 
Glad you are ok. A friend rolled ours and stock cage did it's job along with the Crow belts. The way I drive, an aftermarket cage for racing will be in my future. I will start to look around at cages and read forum for input as to which is good to buy.
 
We had a RZR XP cartwheel 6 times on a saturday night out of control ride. Everybody was ok in the RZR. It popped all four tires off the bead and broke the driver side upper ball joint and also the upper drive side A arm bolt. Ill post a pic of it in a bit.
 
We had a RZR XP cartwheel 6 times on a saturday night out of control ride. Everybody was ok in the RZR. It popped all four tires off the bead and broke the driver side upper ball joint and also the upper drive side A arm bolt. Ill post a pic of it in a bit.

I'm glad everyone was ok. That sounds bad!
 
We had a RZR XP cartwheel 6 times on a saturday night out of control ride. Everybody was ok in the RZR. It popped all four tires off the bead and broke the driver side upper ball joint and also the upper drive side A arm bolt. Ill post a pic of it in a bit.

The Pictures wont show much. But Guess what I have from that Ride Justin.
The Gopro camera was on for that Ride and I will Upload it. Cool video and it will give people a little Taste of Our Nite Rides where its Pedal To the Plastic from Camp to Olds if we Ever make it with out Crashing or breaking these little shit box toys. Our Nite rides are For Experts only!!!
 
Glad you're o.k. Ryan. My boy and I most always wear a helmet. We always feel a little anal about wearing it, but you just made the point of why we do. I'm going to insist from now on as the past few times out we didn't. Safety gear can't protect you unless you wear it. Rzr John taught us that one and I don't want to be another statistic too.

Ride safe....
:)
 
Glad every one was safe.

Here is 1 pic from our weekend, luckily always landed on all fours in my teryx and this.
 

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Warlock, I'd love to hit up one of those "expert only rides" sounds like a hell of a time! Sounds like the ride I was on when I waded it up. hahah. :D
 
Warlock, I'd love to hit up one of those "expert only rides" sounds like a hell of a time! Sounds like the ride I was on when I waded it up. hahah. :D

Yeah its a Blast and it Tests out the Cars for sure. Our Friend would not have rolled except for the Fact that another Friends tire hit his tire at the top of the dune in a transition and Sent him sideways Cartwheeling like a mini sprint flip down the dune. Shit happens when your in Full Moto Mode at Nite. I gonna figure out how to Upload the GoPro vid soon.:eek:
 
Yeah its a Blast and it Tests out the Cars for sure. Our Friend would not have rolled except for the Fact that another Friends tire hit his tire at the top of the dune in a transition and Sent him sideways Cartwheeling like a mini sprint flip down the dune. Shit happens when your in Full Moto Mode at Nite. I gonna figure out how to Upload the GoPro vid soon.:eek:

To post the video, you have to post to Youtube (this could take hours, my 5 min video took 2 hours for some reason) then paste the link to the thread. looking forward to the video :eek:
 

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