The Insane Semi Wreckage

In the process of trying to move me back out to Utah, we narrowly escaped death in a massive 30 truck pile up. There was incredibly thick fog and within a matter of minutes the road went from a wet spray to glare black ice. I'll try to use my photographs to help tell our story.

There were guard rails on both sides of the road with a large hill on the right side. That's how the paramedics were able to get to us. There was a small frontage road they had to take because the crash completely clogged up the road for miles and the worst injuries were in the front of the wreck.

Right where the truck is over the guard rail on the left is where the was a small gap that we were able to pull through. When we got there, there were two semis that had already wrecked. There were 2 cars ahead of us that got through before us. The second car had this axle bouncing around behind them. Can  you imagine the terror?? So they went WAY down the road and stopped. Their car was damaged in the process of getting through the gap.

Later when other trucks plowed into the wreck, this truck closed the gap we got through. Had we stayed there for 3 more minutes, we would have been dead.

There were 2 men that we very badly injured at the front of the wreck where we were. This shoe belonged to a man that I walked back to our car and the truck in the back was the truck he barely climbed out of alive. He was bleeding to death. My mom helped stop the bleeding so that he survived. Doctors say that he was lucky to have survived. His blood levels were at about 21% and at 18% you get a blood transfusion. He's still recovering from the wreck. He had a severed artery in his arm and a torn up ankle that required several skin grafts. The other man that was injured had several broken bones in his back and ruptured discs. There more more injuries to him but I can't remember. He's still recovering too. He was in massive amounts of pain.

The next few pictures are bloody.... They tell my story helping the man who was bleeding to death. Those are his bloody foot prints as he walked back to our car.

This is the pool of blood that came from his foot as my mom was trying to wrap it up to stop the bleeding.

The worst part of the wreck was hearing the booms that never seemed to end from truck after truck piling up. Every now and again I hear something that replicates the sound and it sends chills down my spine. We're lucky to be alive!