Woman Impaled by Tree Limb Through Neck -- and Other Weird Accidents
The 13-inch spruce limb fell without warning, impaling 20-year-old Michelle Childers who was in the passenger seat of a car driven by her husband Daniel. WLNE TV broadcast a photo taken of Childers with the spruce limb extending out of her neck.
While a woman being impaled by a tree limb falling into her car qualifies as an unusual accident, it has company in the weird accidents category.
In Fairfax, Oklahoma a 6-year-old boy died September 1 when he was struck in the head by a flying deer. The flying deer was not one of Santa's reindeer but rather an ordinary specimen itself struck by a car and propelled into the pick up truck where little Jacob Wilson was riding. The other occupants of the truck were uninjured.
An accident dubbed "highway to Heaven" in January found a 23-year-old driver from Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany and his car crashed through a church attic 23 feet above ground. Police called in physicists to try and determine how the accident could have happened.
Long before the woman impaled by tree limb or boy killed by flying deer, there were no cars, yet weird accidents were legion.
In 1814 in London, a vat containing over 500,000 gallons of beer cracked open and flooded the streets, killing 8 people, one of whom died from alcohol poisoning.
On the same note, a molasses tank exploded in Boston in 1915, creating a 25-35 wave of molasses washing down the streets at 35 mph, killing 21 and injuring 150.
The personal injury network cites several weird accidents on its website, some involving vehicles and some not. Among them:
- a woman in Ireland was injured when a car fell on top of her from the second story of a parking garage
- a 19-year-old Michigan man who sought to set up his neighbor on charges of stabbing him bled to death from his self-inflicted knife wounds
- A Texas man died of a brain hemorrhage while stealing a statue of the Virgin Mary
Somehow a woman impaled by a tree limb crashing through her car window and into her neck doesn't seem so weird anymore.
Sources: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h90wrqwNNnS05oQSrpzIR-GrMwqgD9AP86R00; http://www.abc6.com/news/59513457.html; http://www.personal-injury-info.net/weird-accidents-injuries.htm; http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,603542,00.html; http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545575,00.html; http://www.bukisa.com/articles/137615_strange-historical-accidents; http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,603542,00.html.
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16 Comments
Post a CommentWow...freak accidents here.
So not only do you need to keep an eye on what's behind you, now you have to watch above and everywhere else at the same time. And if you just barricaded yourself in your home, then I suppose a big old tornado would swoop in and wipe everything out. Interesting article, Carol.
Oh, Carol, this made me hurt!
How bizaare.
Biker friend of mine won a $25,000 motorcycle in a rally. Bout a month later he was riding it in the country and a deer lept from the woods on the roadside and tried to clear my pal on his newly won scooter. The deer's left hindquarter hit him in the face, crushed his right eye orbit and jaw. The deer and the newly won motorcycle were totaled. My pal healed up just fine, but man was he pissed.
You never really expect to get hit by a flying deer. Interesting article.
I like what CJ said..there's no escape from a destiny, no matter how strange it is..Thanks for this interesting article, Carol!
Wow I now understand why some people will say when it is your time it is your time.
These are such unusual occurrences! I am really surprised to hear that the woman impaled in the neck survived. It's good to know she did not die from her injuries.
Sophie
Phineas Gage had a spike enter under his chin and exit through the top of his head. His bizarre behavior afterward proved the importance of the frontal lobe in personality and impulse control. I love finding out about these kinds of accidents. I've never seen one in my time as a paramedic, though I know lots of people who have.