[Newsbot]

Title: Car destroyed in rockslide on Whistler highway
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-04-14 17:17:59
Canadian

[crystalsm]

Those are some big frickin' rocks.
Guy is lucky to have walked away with just minor injuries!

[andyt]

The article doesn't mention it, but we've had at least one person squashed by a boulder there. They weren't so lucky. Then there were the people who drove off the bridge that had been washed away by a mudslide.

[Barilko]

andyt andyt:

The article doesn't mention it, but we've had at least one person squashed by a boulder there. They weren't so lucky. Then there were the people who drove off the bridge that had been washed away by a mudslide.

That was all long long ago and it wasn't a mudslide it was a rock slide-Welcome to mountain driving.

[andyt]

Barilko Barilko:

andyt andyt:

The article doesn't mention it, but we've had at least one person squashed by a boulder there. They weren't so lucky. Then there were the people who drove off the bridge that had been washed away by a mudslide.

That was all long long ago and it wasn't a mudslide it was a rock slide-Welcome to mountain driving.

$1:

A mudslide that reached a speed of 80 km per hour wiped out the centre of the M Creek bridge in less than 30 seconds,

http://www.whistlerquestion.com/article/20100623/WHISTLER01/306239970/-1/whistler/family-seeks-new-m-creek-memorial

[Brenda]

andyt andyt:

Barilko Barilko:

andyt andyt:

The article doesn't mention it, but we've had at least one person squashed by a boulder there. They weren't so lucky. Then there were the people who drove off the bridge that had been washed away by a mudslide.

That was all long long ago and it wasn't a mudslide it was a rock slide-Welcome to mountain driving.

$1:

A mudslide that reached a speed of 80 km per hour wiped out the centre of the M Creek bridge in less than 30 seconds,

http://www.whistlerquestion.com/article/20100623/WHISTLER01/306239970/-1/whistler/family-seeks-new-m-creek-memorial

Jesus, that was in 1982... 2 generations have been born since then.

[andyt]

Fresh in my mind. Guess that's what happens when you get old. At the time I used to drive that highway all the time in the dark to get to the back country or Whistler, so it made an impact on me.

I think the boulder squashing thing was a little more recent. Poor woman was sitting there 'cause the highway was closed and splat.

Barilko was probably thinking of this more recent incident:

$1:

Troubling questions arise about the night five people died when Rutherford Creek bridge was destroyed in a massive rainstorm

That was in 2003. But still no rock slide.