pretty lucky. I didnt even see it coming, the other driver was given a ticket. all i remember is the sound of the collision...and it was LOUD!
I was hit on the front passenger panel. I immediately felt tremendous pain in my right shoulder. My Trooper was turned over on the drivers side. I hear someone yelling "gas is leaking from your truck, you have to get out now, roll down your window" I'm thinking, yeah right, how aam i gonna fit thru the window...then i think, wait a minute, unlock the door and see if it opens....it does.....a guy on top of the truck pulls the door completly open and I try to pull myself up...NO way...somethings wrong with my shoulder....then another guy is on top of the truck now and both of them start pulling on my arms......way too painful, i yell dont pull on the right arm....so with their help, I'm out of the truck and their telling me to sit down, meanwhile I see someone helping someone else out of a car thats all smashed up. so I'm sitting there thinking.."wow, my trooper looks weird laying on its side like that'" about that time search and rescue shows up and i notice blood all over my shirt. they strap me to a gurney and put me inside their truck. their asking me, do you know what happened, etc, i said I guess someone hit me, and I hear 1 paramedic telling the other " I cant get a blood-pressure reading" so I'm thinking" does that mean I'm dead?

then they tell me there gonna start an IV, and I'm like...whoa, wait a minute, I have to drive my truck I cant afford impoundment fees, etc....I'm ok, I dont need to go to the hospital....and they imform me about how nevada law states that if a vehicle gets overturned in an accident...the driver has to go to the hospital..period. case closed.

about that time a police officer sticks his head in the truck and asks for my license and I'm trying to tell him, hey I just moved, I still have a bunch of stuff in my SUV, and my phone and glasses have to be in there too. he says no one is even getting close to your truck until the fire dept arrives and cleans up he gas, etc.

AT UMC they tell me I have 6 fractured ribs and a pneumothorax, which can cause my lung to collapse amd/or lead to pneumonia...oh, and a hole in my ear, that they'll glue back together....great...and that I'll be there for at least 48 hours....later the DR would tell me I was lucky not to have a lacerated Aorta.....the PO shows up at the hospital and tells me he issued the other driver a ticket and tells me how he should give me a ticket for not wearing a seat belt but wont....that no one else was hurt and that while my SUV was flipping over, I clipped another car...how the ticketed drivers car had to be towed along with mine......oh, and here was my phone, the only thing he found.

My niece took me to the tow yard yeaterday...no sight of my camera bag that had a couple T-90s with 2 L lenses....and other items not found.....my 1990 Tropper is totaled....which I bought about a year and half ago and paid a preimum price because it had new engine, new clutch, etc and had been serviced by my mechanic friend since brand new...sucks.....