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Dallas R
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Apr 10, 2015
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Traveling the USA
· Joined May 2013
· Points: 191
Normally I wouldn't mention an event like this but it involved climbers and tourists. A tourist was driving down 279 spotted the climbers and was gawking, as a result he drifted towards them. Car door was open. He took the car door off. No injuries. On the climbers part, the car was parked less than a foot away from the white line. The open door would have extended out onto the highway. The lesson to be learned is not the fault of each party, but that there is a danger, so please keep those kids close to the wall and away from the highway.
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Matt Pierce
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Apr 10, 2015
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Poncha Springs, CO
· Joined May 2010
· Points: 312
Crazy but not surprising. People drive FAST on that damn Potash Road and of course the climbers are close as well. Everyone be safe.
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Matt Pierce
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Apr 10, 2015
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Poncha Springs, CO
· Joined May 2010
· Points: 312
Oh I forgot - this is MP - what I should have said was - no photo...didn't happen
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jacob m s
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Apr 10, 2015
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Provo, Utah
· Joined Apr 2011
· Points: 135
I think the car door had it coming, you need to pull over as much as you can with the door closed, then to leave it open . . . glad nobody was hurt. RIP car door
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Bill Kirby
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Apr 10, 2015
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Keene New York
· Joined Jul 2012
· Points: 480
jacob m s wrote:I think the car door had it coming, you need to pull over as much as you can with the door closed, then to leave it open . . . glad nobody was hurt. RIP car door Let's keep the comments about the door civil. Respect the car door's family and friends.
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Eric Engberg
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Apr 10, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Apr 2009
· Points: 0
Bill Kirby wrote: Let's keep the comments about the door civil. Respect the car door's family and friends. But was the door wearing a helmet?
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FrankPS
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Apr 10, 2015
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Atascadero, CA
· Joined Nov 2009
· Points: 276
I see people open their driver's side door, without looking to see if a car is coming, all the time. I've often wanted to deliberately take that car door off with my car, to teach them a lesson. But I won't do that. But I fantasize about it!
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Larry Harpe
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Apr 10, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Mar 2015
· Points: 43
The driver was speeding the car was more than a couple of feet from the white line and the door was not over the white line. It was 100% the drivers error.
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cdec
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Apr 10, 2015
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SLC, UT
· Joined Jan 2007
· Points: 654
Wow! Can believe this made the web. The driver was speeding, the door was a slider and still the legal distance from the white line. Insurance company has admitted liability of the driver. Here's the picture that shows the location of the van, confirms it happened and that Dallas R cannot judge distance, does not know a car from a Minivan or that the door was a slider. We removed the door to get it back to town. Now for the grain of truth in the OP "there is danger, so please keep.....away from the highway.
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FrankPS
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Apr 10, 2015
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Atascadero, CA
· Joined Nov 2009
· Points: 276
Is that the actual van? Amazing that there is no other damage to it.
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Georgehh
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Apr 10, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Apr 2015
· Points: 0
cdec wrote:Wow! Can believe this made the web. It made mountain project... don't flatter yourself. 95% of the stuff on here is total bullshit based on 5% fact. Sucks your car door got F'd, glad no one was hurt.
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Dallas R
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Apr 10, 2015
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Traveling the USA
· Joined May 2013
· Points: 191
cdec wrote:Wow! Can believe this made the web. The driver was speeding, the door was a slider and still the legal distance from the white line. Insurance company has admitted liability of the driver. Here's the picture that shows the location of the van, confirms it happened and that Dallas R cannot judge distance, does not know a car from a Minivan or that the door was a slider. We removed the door to get it back to town. Now for the grain of truth in the OP "there is danger, so please keep.....away from the highway. Truth, I was on an anchor when it happened so could not say how fast the driver was going. Truth, I did not investigate the type of car that is was. Really can't say if that is the actual car. I drive pickups, know them pretty well. All the others are "cars". Minivan, SUV, sedan; still a car. Truth, I did not measure the distance white line from car, only observed from 4 routes down. Truth, driver hit the door. Bottom line, and purpose of the post, you'all be careful on wall street. Folks tend to drift off road a bit and puts other folks in danger. Be alert, don't get hurt.
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cdec
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Apr 12, 2015
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SLC, UT
· Joined Jan 2007
· Points: 654
Truth is I own the "car" and have had to deal with the police and the insurance company. The facts are the driver who hit my vehicle was speeding, distracted and deemed to be at fault. The "car" was photographed in the exact position it was in when it was hit and we did so to submit to the police and insurance company. It was parked legally and in no way our fault. It would have been great if you had just posted the last paragraph of the last post. As it was the OP was sensationalized, inaccurate, disengenuous and made based on little to no actual knowledge of wtf happened. Be careful out there is right.
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Billcoe
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Apr 12, 2015
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Pacific Northwet
· Joined Mar 2006
· Points: 930
My sympathies go out to the car doors family and friends. Let us know when the kickstarter campaign starts.
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cdec
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Apr 12, 2015
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SLC, UT
· Joined Jan 2007
· Points: 654
^^^^ No need for a Kickstarter, insurance has it covered. Plus we are a big, rich commercial guide service profiting off the masses of gym to crag climbers and ruining climbing for those that remember how it used to be when they started climbing.... last summer.
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Austin Baird
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Apr 13, 2015
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SLC, Utah
· Joined Apr 2009
· Points: 95
If this accident had happened in Eldo, the minivan would have just shaken it off and been fine.
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Miller Miller
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Apr 13, 2015
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Salt Lake
· Joined Jun 2009
· Points: 75
most surely, Yur gonna Die!
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cdec
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Apr 13, 2015
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SLC, UT
· Joined Jan 2007
· Points: 654
Austin that is awesome! thanks for the laugh!
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Greg D
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Apr 13, 2015
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Here
· Joined Apr 2006
· Points: 883
Its amazing there aren't more accidents there. I wonder why there seems to be zero enforcement of the climbing and Indian Writings slower speed zone. Could we get one of those speed limits signs with the built in radar that displays your speed. I don't know how truly affective they are. But it would be a good start. Also climbers should respect the road by parking as far from the white line, leashing their dogs and not belaying in the road. But everyone know this already.
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mediocre
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Apr 13, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jul 2013
· Points: 0
Sorry to keep this thread going, but are you saying that the door was a slider? That the "tourist" hit the door in so precisely that there wasn't even a scratch or a dent anywhere else on the van? And I love the OP's designation between tourists and climbers, because we all know everyone climbing at Wall Street is a Moab local.
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Allen Sanderson
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Apr 13, 2015
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On the road to perdition
· Joined Jul 2007
· Points: 1,203
Dallas R wrote: On the climbers part, the car was parked less than a foot away from the white line. cdec wrote:Here's the picture that shows the location of the van, confirms it happened and that Dallas R cannot judge distance My wife would say that Dallas was measuring using boy inches, not girl inches.
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