This morning at 6:30 AM I was going out for Breakfast, I fell asleep at the wheel (I think) not sure of anything at this point, Ran off the road and hit a Telephone pole , took about 8 feet of it with me. for 25 yds, and hit a very large blown down form the recent storm.. Penetrated the large branches at the top, and continued on for 40 more yards,, where my truck stopped. crawled out an saw the motor half under the fire wall.. nobody saw me, most likely no one up yet.. fellow came out of his house that owned the property and said are you ok? I said yes, so he went and got me a chair to sit on then called for help... my only injury is a sore chest, where the steering wheel hit me... I was taken to the Hospital shock Trauma unit and was checked out,, everything is ok... my 2010 Silverado is toast... I finally got Breakfast at 4:30 PM that sucks. anyone else have a 9/11 Day?

Glad youre ok. Bags didnt pop?

Glad you’re okay, Hubert. Any idea of the speed? I’m involved in airbag design...curious to confirm the airbag deployed as well.

Best wishes,
GW

Damn!! Please don't do that again, that's getting a new truck the hard way.

Neighbor down the road fell off his Harley bike two driveways down from his, he said he got dizzy and just rode off in the yard. I helped him pick up his bike and he hasn't rode it since. No damage to his bike, but he was lucky his 'episode' happened close to home instead of out on the highway.

Well, glad youre ok, but i usually just go back to bed if im too tired for breakfast. I sometimes have bacon and eggs at 11 oc.
Is there a hot waitress at the breakfast diner?

Lucky man OP.

Wow, glad you're ok!

Well, so after all the airbag crap do i have to take my new Toyota back in for an airbag? Please?

I mean, is this schiett rocket science? Id rather go with just the seatbelt but is it asking too much to not have a freaking airbag than can take your face or head off?

Holy cow! I’m glad you’re ok! I started having issues getting drowsy at the wheel. Turned out I had sleep apnea. Hasn’t happened since I got my half-azzed cosmonaut mask.

Yep. Glad it worked out for him.

air bags worked fine, or I would of been more injured.. speed about 55 mph on impact.

Damn! Don’t do that!! Glad you’re ok!!!!

Youre blessed. PTL.

Glad to hear you lived to tell the tale. Be safe.

Yep! Blessed is a good word for it!

Wow, that was a close call!
We'll put you on the prayer list for that tomorrow.

Good thing you weren’t driving a Corvair. 😳
You may want to get checked for mini-stroke (unless they’ve already done it). I would think it would be pretty unusual to go to sleep at the wheel just shortly after getting up.

Dang, that's quite a story. Congrats?


Reminds me of a question. Why is it that ambulances are built on such stiff suspension? Totally miserable to ride in. Seems to me they could tune the suspension such that it'd ride in the middle of the springs and be smoother. I know my truck is made to ride when carrying an intended load.

Glad you're ok. Sucks about your truck, but at least you walked away.

Jesus Christ why would you wait until tomorrow to pray for him. Part time Christian?

Hubert-hope all is well.

Hubert -

I'am glad you are safe, sounds like a close call.

Hope this doesn't pit a damper on that azz-kickin' you promised me a while back...

I was counting sheep at 6:30 glad all is well

^^^That^^^

Lucky by the sounds of it.
Glad you're ok

“Prayer list” that happens at church, on Sunday.

Glad that your not any worse for wear! You may be a little sore for a few days......certainly better than the alternative! memtb

Its good HE had that telephone pole there to slow Hubert down. Id think that would do the job at 55 without taking out the other crap. Guess HE had to blow a tree over too to keep Hubert safe for breakfast that day.

Hubert didnt say how eats were that morning.

I think ill just stay home and poach some eggs and microwave sausage early,or late, tomorrow morning.

Did you save that 1200 dollar battery?

Yes but it was smoking.....

Glad you didn't kill someone

LMMFAO!!

Is this possibly related to your cancer diagnosis? I would definitely call your doc. if it's another side effect or symptom you damn sure don't want to let it happen again

Good man.

Glad it was a telephone pole and not an oncoming truck!

Thankfully your stupid fugking ass didn’t kill anyone.

Glad you're ok. Get yourself checked out

This is why I don’t eat until about 3pm everyday.

People don’t need 3-squares a day, it’s not worth getting into an accident.

Sorry Hubert. Glad you're ok.

Just think if you were on The Trike, God is good.

Have a serious roo guard on my pickup and was center punched once by a van that drifted into our lane. Air bag deployed, but never touched me. I'm about 6'4" and the seat stays as far back as it will go. Not a single dent in the truck though.

Huh?

I never subscribed to jumping through one’s ass at O’dark 30 to be the first one at The Waffle House

Dude wasn’t even completely awake and thinking about food.

JFC

I’d rather sleep than eat. 😃

Old people and they breakfast

Wait

The waffle house is open 24 hours

Just got a message from the producers in my IFB

Glad your OK Hubert. There's lots easier ways to get a new truck ya know....

Or breakfast.

Glad to hear you are OK.

Well, obviouslously you fer got about tha baggon.

Stay home

Stay alive

Slum, aint you ever heard of what the dimocraps do all tha time on drugs? Its called "sleep drivin".
Sheesh. I gotta tellya everthang.

I sleep till noon anyway

I’m fasting through two all yall fatass meal appointments

LOL

That hurts.

Glad ya didnt kill anyone or hurt yourself seriously



Maybe it's time to give up driving if you are falling asleep at the wheel or for whatever caused it.


Before you kill someone.........
And a selfish sense of independence that some old people have doesn't justify driving and putting others at risk beside yourself.

Dude

Be nice

Hahajahajajahq!

Fugg sakes....

86 yrs of age, riddled with cancer and driving off to the Pancake House on your lonesome before you were cognizant....



Hubert, honestly who handed you the keys?

Gotcha.

You don’t even need to eat much. A tomato and some sardines. Handful of mixed nuts an some cheese maybe. Stop eating at 3:30

‘Zackley.

Thought he’s 93?

I was wondering if your sugar levels are okay.
As other have said, you should see a Doctor.

Take care.

Damn bud, glad you are okay.

Six beers involved = Murdering Son of a Bitch.



Slept 30 minutes or taking 8 different prescriptions to stay alive = Whoopsie Daisies.

I am in good health, and am capable of driving.... sorry I involved some of you azzholes in my life...flav GFY... oh thats right you don't have a DICCK... hahaha ------------ A girl daughter of a friend of mine was killed by a 22 year old stupid son of a Biitch that rammed the rear of the car she was in and killed her Instantly......what super advice do you have for that azzhole ... should he quit driving also .... stopping driving will not save anyones lives... driving is here to stay DUMB azz...

Can you retake the driver’s exam? Might be a good idea

Why? I will if you will. my accident had nothing to do with taking a drivers test,, Think before you speak..

So glad that you are OK.

He is saying you may have lost some of your ability to drive as well as you used to. Heavily medicated elderly people often do. That is all he was saying about the test.

Stop being so belligerent. Damn. If someone else crashed a car in the same circumstances you'd want to make sure it didn't happen again.

It's probably a coincidence. Not that you are of advanced age and have cancer and are heavily medicated.

Go buy a new truck and drive around aimlessly every day. I'm sure your trip to Bob Evans at 3pm for dinner is important enough to kill someone over.

The rest of us are stuck behind you and in front of you and hope to make it home to our loved ones.

Maybe you could do a little introspection. Probably won't though. It's all about you.

If you take a snooze mid-exam, the proctor may disagree.

There’s thousands of them on the road.

They DGAF.

It's an accident for fecks sake. All the pearl clutching from the hens is hilarious. Glad your okay OP.

But yeah who the hell is driving to a pancake joint at 6am, lol.

Yep and old people who are heavily medicated have them all the time. Which should be a huge wake up call. But it won't be because he knows better than everyone else.

Only 8 medications?

What a lightweight 😂

What about people texing while going 90 on the innerstate... are they ok with you all??

Sounds like a problem almost solved itself.

You are lucky. However, we had a guy at work that was luckier. This guy, while driving down the road had a heart attack. He hits a pole so hard his chest slammed into the steering wheel and got his heart going again.

So you admit there is a problem and want to compare it. Nice.

Why would you ass-ume that?

So many false equivalencies on here today.

Sandbilly was texting me doing 86 mph yesterday

😱

It seems that falling asleep and crashing your truck at 0600 is an expression of freedom. He was probably vaccinated....or not.


mike r

You rat bastard! Lol

Got your doors blowd off by a horse trailer too 😂

Sure did. Lol

That was a bad wreck. Hope you figure our why it happened.

Thankfully you are OK

Glad it turned out ok. If you're taking any meds it could be you were dehydrated.

In some states, for the elderly this will get your license pulled pending medical review. Passed out, blacked out, fainted, seizure etc. Good luck.

Glad there weren't serious injuries to anyone.

Hubert,

I'm glad you survived. That's too close for comfort.
Praying for you bud.

I know why it happened, but we are not going into it on here,, but it won't happen again,, just be cool with it..

Just take your driver test again and put us all at ease

And alot of em get that nice young doctor to give em the alternate eye exams the DMV,s accept

Nice lady at the DMV explains the whole process.
Check the block schit and magoo is back on the road again.
Not held to the same vision standards as the rest at the DMV that can pass their in house exam.


Throw in aged reactions and hand eye motor skills.




Lotsa seniors who shouldnt be driving.
Lotsa young people also with vision problems who shouldnt be driving.

But those alternate eye exams.

Check da block.....

Fugg no......

Oh, we cool.

You post about nearly killing your self, damaging the infrastructure system, totalling your truck, deny every logical reason for it happening and advice to prevent it from recurring,

and you say not telling and be cool widdit?



Take the insurance check and take a vacation.

I hope he ain't driving on vacation!

Hubert, you really need to consider not driving anymore.

Also, there's a limit to these sympathy threads you can post until they just don't work anymore. Looking at this one, maybe you have reached that limit.

YOU FELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL AT @ 6 am.


That is not an accident, you practiced that...

^ ^ ^

sure it was...

Sorry to hear about your truck, glad to hear that you will be OK!

You should be grateful that you survived. That’s all that matters.

We’re you really tired? Felt like you were falling asleep? If not you should get checked for narcolepsy. My dad had it and he had a lot of accidents.

10 pages and no pics? FAIL.

Ambien


Guy at work, on third shift used it.
Prick took it in the evening, kept falling asleep on the way to work.
Sideswiped a telephone pole, on the left side! Ended up in a cornfield.
Had corn and mud all up under his vehicle.
Another time. Woke up in a ditch!

Ask him "Why in thee FUDGE don't go you home in the morning and take
it? You would have all evening to get it out of your system?"


"I like to do stuff in the daytime, sleep in the evening."

Fugger was a pill popping hypochondriac.
Had an Igloo cooler he would lay on its side and open up.
Completely full of herbs and supplements.
Don't think he even needed the Ambien. It was just his way to
control his going to sleep.
He would never tell what happened,
But something finally scared a little sense into him. He quit taking it.

We used to make him go home sick. Just for laughs.

"Dam, you don't look good today. Feeling ok"

"I,I I, I, am feeling a little off. Stomach is queasy, a little peak-ed."

Half hour later. "Hey, you sure you are ok?

"Well, I, I, I, don't know, kinda dizzy."

If that didn't work, get another opinion.

"Yeh, man. I don't think you look good today."

He'd usually go home sick before lunch.

Why do you think I wanted to survive????

To take your driver’s ed test again?

There are 30.000 people killed in auto accidents a year.. I DID NOT KILL OR INJURE ANYONE, Why am I singled out to retake my drivers test again.. I know why the accident happened and I can avoid it happening again.. so stop this BS. it cost me a 32.000 truck.. it was the best truck I have ever owned...It was reduced to a 4000. pile of scrap metal in about 5-6 seconds,, the motor- trannie and drive line was destroyed.. the motor was half way into the cab... But I was basically un harmed, and walked away, what more could you ask of a trucks safety equipment......THANKS GM FOR A SAFE TRUCK TO DRIVE...

Hubert

Did you have insurance on your $32,000 loss?

Can’t top wrecking your truck for good luck.

You were trying to commit suicide?

The ol ladys grandpa was a judge.
Retired yrs before, would call the license branch to get his renewed
Couldn't pass the test if he actually took it.
Drove til he was 88.
With his checkbook.
Paid for the damage as he went.

Yup. A democrat.

No, they aren't. I honk my horn at them. But falling asleep on the way to breakfast at 6AM is something that most certainly should not have happened.

I don't know why you fell asleep and you don't either, but you had better find out why it happened before you even think about buying a new vehicle or driving anything any time of the day.

You could have easily taken out a whole family and I am so glad you didn't for their sake and yours too, but you have to go to a sleep doc, or any doc, and tell them what happened and find out what they tell you.

If you don't and you have another one that does take a life you will be murdering that person. You should know better than that, and I believe you do if you would just stop and think about it.

Hubert, I am very glad you're OK. Not just for you, but all your familly and friends.

The last three wrecks I know about none of the "air bags" deplyed. Two drivers died at the scene.

It’s hard for me to get my mind around people needing something to eat at 6am.

I don’t even begin to feel like eating till about 2pm.


And old people, my wife’s grandparents lived and drove around till they were in their mid 80s.
They get one of them .99 cent kid size cheeseburgers and split it for lunch and be ‘full’

Son was in a pretty good accident in September. Airbags were great. Saved all 3 of them from injury or worse.