I was comming off the lake this afternoon from fishing and a guy accidently turned into the boat launch access using the snowmobile trail instead of the plowed vechicle access. I guess he didn't see the vechicle access. He buried his front end, there is a little bit of a ditch there. (the boat launch is right off HW 502 about 1/4 of a km north of Lac Du Bonnet).
I convinced him to stop trying to drive out, he was just sinking more and more. I high tailed it home, got the truck and pulled him out. I thought it was going to be more difficult than it actually was. My truck didn't have to work hard at all to get him out.
Just before I pulled him out (while I was hookng up my tow rope) an old man pulls up in his boat-car
and has a look around the stuck vechicle, himming and hawing. I asked him to stop traffic, because I was going to have to block both lanes to pull him out. 502 isn't very busy. I wouldn't even call it a highway. Well, he just stood there and observed so I grabbed some traffic triangles from the back seat and placed those out on the road.
After I pulled this guys truck out the old man starts to walk back to his car, (he had to walk around the truck that was stuck) and he slips and falls flat on the road right under this guys wheel, right as the guy starts to drive off. The old man is one lucky sob that the guy drove away without backing up first. Considering where and how his vechicle was positioned after I pulled him out, I'm surprised he didn't back up first before driving off.
When I saw the old man go down I threw my truck into park and ripped out the door as fast as I could, and that wasn't fast enough. If the driver would have backed up first, I don't think I would have had time to blink, nevermind react.
Could have been messy. I'm thankful it wasn't, and I'm sure the old man is counting his blessings.
