A few years ago for Spring Break my dad was going to take me and my older brothers to go mountain biking in Moab with him and some of his friends from high school. I was super excited. We spent a few days fixing and tuning up our bikes to get them ready for this big trip. Moab is one of the best places for slickrock biking in the world.
The day for us to leave came. It was a rainy Monday morning. We put the bikes on the bike rack and we left. To get to Moab you drive on U.S. Route 6 in Spanish Fork Canyon. It is probably the deadliest road in Utah. Anyways, we were driving down the road and it had rained a little bit the night before so the roads were still wet. At first we didn’t think much of it. There was a SUV pulling a camper in front of us. My uncle was driving and he felt like he need to pass it. He didn’t know why, but he just felt like he should pass it. Trusting himself, he pulled in front of it. …show more content…
We talked about football, guns, and other things that boys talk about. All of a sudden we felt a bump. It seemed like we a pothole or a dip. The whole car shook. We kept going. A few seconds later we looked back and saw the SUV that we had just passed had rolled onto it’s side. We pulled over and called 911. A few minutes later, paramedics, firefighters, and police officers arrived at the scene. Everyone in the accident was safe and no one had any major injuries. The car had hit the exact same pothole except maybe at a different angle. If they didn’t have the trailer they would have been fine. When they hit the pothole the car jerked, but then corrected. The trailer didn’t. It pulled the car onto it's side and that's why it rolled. We had to stay as witnesses and tell the police exactly what we
The day for us to leave came. It was a rainy Monday morning. We put the bikes on the bike rack and we left. To get to Moab you drive on U.S. Route 6 in Spanish Fork Canyon. It is probably the deadliest road in Utah. Anyways, we were driving down the road and it had rained a little bit the night before so the roads were still wet. At first we didn’t think much of it. There was a SUV pulling a camper in front of us. My uncle was driving and he felt like he need to pass it. He didn’t know why, but he just felt like he should pass it. Trusting himself, he pulled in front of it. …show more content…
We talked about football, guns, and other things that boys talk about. All of a sudden we felt a bump. It seemed like we a pothole or a dip. The whole car shook. We kept going. A few seconds later we looked back and saw the SUV that we had just passed had rolled onto it’s side. We pulled over and called 911. A few minutes later, paramedics, firefighters, and police officers arrived at the scene. Everyone in the accident was safe and no one had any major injuries. The car had hit the exact same pothole except maybe at a different angle. If they didn’t have the trailer they would have been fine. When they hit the pothole the car jerked, but then corrected. The trailer didn’t. It pulled the car onto it's side and that's why it rolled. We had to stay as witnesses and tell the police exactly what we