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[davis_b_1]

Man turns to Google for alternate route and rolls vehicle
July 30th, 2008 @ 12:27pm
By Marc Giauque

The ripple effects of a tanker rollover in Davis County are still being felt by many people today, by some more than others.

Salt Lake City police say a 27-year-old man was trying to go north to Bountiful. He pulled up Google Maps on his cell phone to find an alternate route.

Instead of heading home, he ended on a four-wheeler trail somewhere above City Creek Canyon near 5500 East and 1900 North.

Detective Jeff Bedard, spokesman for the Salt Lake City Police Department, said, "He was about seven miles or so off-road." Bedard said the man eventually rolled his Jeep Liberty.

Bedard says it underscores the limitations of services like Google Earth and Google Maps. He says, "If you look at something from a bird's-eye view and just think, ‘I'm gonna get from point A to point B,' if you're going over the top of the mountain, that's not necessarily gonna be the easiest way."

Police officers and sheriff's deputies came to his rescue. They're also investigating whether he did something illegal.

A lot of other cars became casualties to the backups. The Utah Department of Transportation's Incident Management team responded to seven abandoned vehicles. It also helped 20 drivers who had dead batteries in their vehicle, ran out of gas, or whose vehicles overheated.

UDOT says vehicles like the one in the rollover are typically allowed by their permit to be on freeways, but not during peak time, which is between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. The accident occurred around 3 p.m.

UDOT estimates that stretch of freeway probably carries between 25,000 and 30,000 cars per hour at peak times. A spokesman says the Legacy Highway, which is scheduled to open in September, could cut traffic in the area by as much as a third.
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http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3893741[/url]

You have to love KSL'S reporting, I have read the account from the driver on another forum
UTAHGEOCACHERS and he never did roll his jeep and he is 37, not 27.

[devo_stevo]

davis_b_1 wrote: A spokesman says the Legacy Highway, which is scheduled to open in September, could cut traffic in the area by as much as a third.

He called it a highway. :nono:

[davis_b_1]

devo_stevo wrote: davis_b_1 wrote: A spokesman says the Legacy Highway, which is scheduled to open in September, could cut traffic in the area by as much as a third.

He called it a highway. :nono: :roflol:

[JP]

Rolled his Jeep, WTF was he thinking :haha:

[DWayne27]

ha ha ha ha... i work with this guy- everyone has been giving him crap about it

[JP]

DWayne27 wrote: ha ha ha ha... i work with this guy
Now that's funny :roflol:

[ExpUt]

The vehicle did not roll. We are planning a recovery mission with the driver over on RockyMountainExtreme.com :cool2:

Hopefully he can come out of this with just a fine and an education rather than a destroyed vehicle.

[accadacca]

:lol8: :lol8: :lol8:

[Mooseman70]

Another new meaning to the term "BunkerDave"'ing it. :lol8:

[James_B_Wads2000]

The entire accident was faked! It’s all a right-winged consericy to gain public support for the Legacy Highway. :roflol:


James
:haha:

[JP]

ExpUt wrote: The vehicle did not roll.
What's the scoop :ne_nau:

[davis_b_1]

JP wrote: ExpUt wrote: The vehicle did not roll.
What's the scoop :ne_nau:
The only details that bunkerdave has not let out are located on the UTAG website.

http://www.utahgeocachers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5580&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

[JP]

Thanks Davis :2thumbs:

No ATV winch is going to be able to pull him out. The ATV will either be pulled into him while the winch process is commencing or the winch won't be rated enough to pull a Liberty that is "stuck".

Sounds like it's still driveable, he didn't mention any fluids leaking from it. Hopefully it will be minimal cosmetic damage.

[davis_b_1]

Here is another link with more information about the recovery effort for the "rolled" jeep.
http://www.rockymountainextreme.com/showthread.php?t=57071

[accadacca]

Got any pix? :ne_nau: