Lamar Yarbray. Thank you :) I am very proud of him. I was watching this with him when I was little and realized that he was a hero. He's doing very well now
Seeing the old man walking at the end, and talking about his drive to regain mobility was absolutely beautiful.. The 2 gentlemen who came together separately and able to intuitively work together like that and bring the car to a stop, was nothing short of miraculous..Thank goodness for good people!
@@sub2pewdiepienowunsubt-ser119 Who cares about a U turn at that point? There weren't police cars nearby, few cell phones were around at the time (costing well over $2,000 in equivalent dollars) and 3 people were in the car with others possibly in danger. They did the right thing.
in this story we have 3 heroes during the accident, the Van driver obviously, the driver of the other car and the wife as she kept the car from going against traffic on the other side of highway, and the grandpa was also a hero, as he persevered and got to walk again after surgery. I hope the truck driver was heavily fined at least for causing the accident and lost his job
This is one of the most involved episodes I've ever seen. It's not an effort of one person or even two. The two strangers, the wife, the doctor, the "walkers" and the victim all made combinations of massive successes for the most positive outcome.
It's mind-boggling to think that each of those things had to happen just as they did to have the outcome it did. There's just no other way they could have been saved.
To the guy asking about the car, it's a Dodge Dynasty. My grandparents used to own one back in the day. They manufactured them between 1987 and 1993. However, I've seen a black Dynasty used in several episodes of this show so the car they were actually in might have been different.
Not to mention that most states post signs with the height of the next bridge a good quarter mile away. One of the most expensive fines a trucker can ever get handed down is for having to be backed off a highway to the nearest entrance ramp to exit the road backwards. The only thing that costs more is actually destroying the bridge or getting wedged under it.
The show was not cancelled because of that lawsuit. What happened was that 911 Burgers N' Dogs sold a candy bar called the 911 Rescue Bar, which pre-dated the Rescue 911 tv show. CBS sued 911 Burgers N' Dogs for use of the trademark but ultimately lost in 1993. CBS's Rescue 911 trademark (not the show) was cancelled, meaning they could no longer put the ® symbol by their logo. That's why Rescue 911 merch from 1993 or later uses ™ (which can be used for unregistered trademarks) instead of ®.
These are among my favorite type of R911 episodes...I'm always fascinated with stories involving random, average-Joe people coming to the rescue of somebody in grave need
WOW, SUCH AN AMAZING STORY AND ENDING. AND I THOUGHT ME PUSHING SOMEONE'S CAR WITH MY AUDI VEHICLE WHO RAN OUT OF GAS WAS SOMETHING. THESE MEN ARE HEROES FOR REAL. AWESOME HUMAN BEINGS.
Thanks for putting all these on here allgood2000. I wasn't even born before some of them. They are really interesting to watch I never had heard of this show before I saw them on here..
Oh gosh wow!! I’m so glad that you are still alive to tell about it! You definitely had an angel watching over you. If you don’t mind me asking, where did that happen? Was the car just so mangled that it took them that long to get you out? How are you feeling today? Sorry, I am truly intrigued by your story!
She tried that several times, but it looked like she was having trouble turning the keys and moving the gear shift. Keep in mind that she could only reach the steering wheel with one hand, so the car veered into the median each time she let go of the wheel to mess with the keys or gear shift. Also remember that the car was going 65-80 MPH, so there would likely have been a serious crash if she had lost control.
allgood2000 And she was reaching over the baby seat which was between them. This was before airbags and people being told babies and children belong in the back seat.
allgood2000 God Bless Grandma for being responsible n knowing she had to act n fast. She could have easily froze like some have n done nothing n this would of definitely had a different ending if it wasn’t for her.
One other thing to remember is cars were starting to have interlocks on them. So in order to get the gearshift into neutral, you usually have to also step on the break. And the key usually won't turn off when the car is in gear which is probably why she couldn't turn off the engine. And if she did manage to turn off the engine, she would've lost the power steering which is one reason why they made it so the key couldn't be turned when in gear.
When my mom was 9 years old she fell from a 3 story roof on to concrete. Amazing she didn't break her back or spine but she paralyzed for months. It stunted her growth so that she remained the size of a 9 year old. She is 4'4". She's 81 now and still active.
Can you imagine if people were still willing to help other like this, like they did back up until 2000ish. Now they would have just recorded on their cell phone or something.
Much different times then. The Dodge Dynasty was never equipped with a passenger-side airbag, only a driver-side from 1990-93. Also it was a six-passenger vehicle meaning the baby had it's own belt restraint, and the campaign to keep children in the rear seat really didn't start until the late '90s, and was due to the force of the passenger-side airbag. But I agree with you today I would never put an infant up front.
And if I'm not mistaken, even then airbags was a safety option that we had to pay extra for. Kinda like how things like power steering and A/C were. They weren't standard equipment quite yet.
It’s been 28 years since this happened so Eddie is 89 now. When I saw Eddie and Joanne’s car get crushed, I was frightened because I didn’t know if it would crash or not. Thank goodness Jim and Felix were both there because if they weren’t, I don’t think Eddie wouldn’t be alive now. This happened on a Wednesday.
I remember that!! It was something metal that fell from the truck as it was passing the elderly gentleman's car, and the metal piece fell on the windsheild cracking it and hitting his thorat! Nasty!
What a hero that the man from the white van is amazing the baby and mom not injured THATS a big miracle but poor man the driver what a heart of determination Eddie walked again he did it.
I fear that the generation now dosent care about their fellow man enough to do something like what he did. They would be worried about their scratched bumper or how they might get hurt if they try to help. Thank God for the good people of the world that care about the welfare of their fellow man in their time of need no matter the cost.
Not true! A man went to France and he claimed and jumped 4 stories up.the balconies to save a hanging baby! Good people will always exist to serve others!
You need to remember back the they had no laws or regulations on this. People and parents really didn't know any better then. People didn't fully realize the dangers.
Thankfully we don't see as much of this anymore, I'm not sure if the child would have been any better off behind the grandpa. that was an accident guided by angels for no one to be dead.
it seemed his load was uneven. the back part was higher so when he got the first part of his load through the back clipped. He could have been misinformed about his loads height. It could have readjusted while driving. Or he could have ignored or missed the sign. I think only the driver can say exactly what happened.
This was in a time when all new cars didnt have airbags and people still had car seats in the front. The whole idea of having children 12 and under riding in the back seat had just been implemented.
Back then there weren't a whole lot of laws about car seats and kíds. As a small child I remember kids in the front seat. My sisters and I used to argue about it at 4 and 5 and 9. When we brought my infant cousin home from the hospital in 93 he was in the front seat.
these videos really show how saftey measures have gone up. for example in this one they invented car seats. the one with the runaway train cars there are now dividers on the tracks not jsut lights and so on.
I tell you one thing that got destroyed, that trucker's career! Even if somehow he was found not guilty for the height discrepancy, he'll never want to drive a truck again.
What if he knew the height and thought it would clear but the signs were incorrect? I'm not trying to excuse poor behavior and sweep it under a rug; it's just that this possibility needs to be considered.
Those types of loads have to be carried on low flatbed trailers or gooseneck trailers. Also, because of the 10' radius, it is classified as an oversized load and should have red flags and warning signs on the front and rear of the truck.
Season 6 episodes seem cooler to me because there were rescues never shown in the early years of RESCUE 9-1-1- that werent unusual like Shark attack # 601, christmas bulb choke # 612 and this segment # 629
They don’t their supposed to use the off and on ramp to drive over the pass. This still happens i work in the bridge industry and we’ve had jobs to build a single overpass girder beam, which I believe was needed for such an event. Idk state laws but ADOT and highway patrol officers inspect all of our oversized loads before they leave (standard for AZ)
Oh, someone who lives in that area sent me some episodes he had on tape. I acutally had this one on tape as well, but his recording had better picture quality, so I used it instead.
It's an iguana named Claudia that falls from a tree into a swimming pool. The owner of the iguana cannot get the iguana down because his arm is in a cast. The cop has to revive the iguana using mouth to mouth after getting it out of the pool.
A cop stops boxcars pushing a car down train tracks, A woman gets re-ended at a railraod crossing and a man pulls her out of her car before the trains hits, a woman's car stalls on the tracks while her baby is inside, an Amtrak wreck in Maryland, toddlers playing on train tracks, a boy falls into a boxcar, a man tries to beat a train to catch a burglar at his store and his truck gets hit, a teen and his aunt are hit by a train while driving in fog, a man collapses on subway tracks.
Cars back then didn't have airbags on the passenger side (the Dynasty only had a driver airbag, the actual car in the real life incident might not have been a Dynasty) so it wasn't as bad to put a child seat in the front seat of a car. But you are correct in stating that the rear seat is the best place for a baby seat, there is no doubt about that.
this segment is like the airplane segment called "terror in the sky" where a husband has a heartattack while flying an airplane in the sky and his wife had to fly the airplane as her husband was dying of a heartattack.
It’s been 30 years since this happened so Eddie is 91 now. At the time this happened, I was 11 1/2 almost 12 and my brother was 9 1/2. I have a feeling that we were at school at the time this happened. It had been 10 months since we moved to Charlotte, North Carolina from Fountain Hills, Arizona. It was our first March in North Carolina. I would be frightened if something like this happened to my father. I’m sure he can never thank Felix enough for what he did for him.
Back when babies didn’t even have to be in car seats, rear facing in the back seat. So glad that things have changed and we have pretty advanced safety precautions for our little ones.
Vicky Esca makes me think of my best friend Ava Wade, Ava and I both on the same track team for winter track, she knows about this serious accident she found out that Eddie was seriously injured in the crushed sedan, she’s grateful no one else was injured in that horrible wreck. A bunch of my other friends know about this accident when I showed them
@momof2girls84 It wasn't on her lap. It was a car seat in the middle position of a bench seat. In the days before airbags, that was common, because it allowed the person not driving to tend to the baby.
That trucker was negligent, if he had to carry stuff that tall, he should have used a lowboy trailer . If that was a lowboy instead of a standard flatbed, the whole thing could have been prevented
Not always, my friend was in a crash when he was 6 (about 10 years ago) and the back seat was obliterated. Had he not been riding up front, he would be dead.
Every car (given, they are automatics) I've ever driven will not let you switch to park (or reverse, for that matter) unless the brake pedal is depressed. It's a safety measure to prevent not only insane accidents (automatic stop from 65+ mph?!) but also to prevent you from totally fudging up your transmission.
As a truck driver I feel that that truck driver should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law because he gives the rest of us safe driver's a bad name I pull a lowboy trailer and haul very heavy wide and tall items and every time I climb up on my load measure the width length and height and plan accordingly to that information so I won't be responsible for something like this.
NEVER EVER EVER put the baby in the front passenger seat with you. The baby needs to be faced backwards in the back seat, strapped together along the back seat. These people should be fortunate the baby survived this ordeal!
I agree, I often forget that I am watching a re-enactment ! I've never seen another show, before OR after this series, that is this realistic. Too bad they took it off the air.
I know someone who DID lose their son, their daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild in one day. His son and daughter-in-law worked together at the same company in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. She was 7 months pregnant and was scheduled to go on maternity leave. September 11 was supposed to be her last day at work before beginning her leave.
I experimented with that (going slow 2-3 miles per hour) not easy on certain cars, easier if has an emergency break next to divers seat. But the newer cars will not disengage the drive unless completely stopped. Also harder to do if passenger rather then driver because some shifts can only be engaged by the diver! (lady was passenger (older at that) and the baby was probably blocking her too. Not to mention her husbands foot on the gas and the damage to the car she did and excellent job!
Strangely enough, nowadays, people would most likely pull out their cell phones and take pictures or video rather than call 911 let alone try and stop the car the way these people did... just saying...
they took this show off air not because of any lawsuit but because it's rating one year went from number 48 to 84. the decline in viewers caused it to be bumped and another show to take it's place. Television is all based upon ratings if another show out rates it it will take it's place. Most shows are taken off either because of bad ratings or even a show that out does the other.
Thank goodness during that time it had the grass in the center beside if that were today the guy would’ve not been able to turn around that quickly on the turnpike because it’s got a concrete divider that runs along from Oklahoma City to Tulsa and the only openings are several miles apart for only the OTA and OHP. Of course, the concrete divider would’ve saved her from almost going into the concrete pillars or head on traffic. But I believe the OTA started building the dividers back in 1997 on the turnpikes here in Oklahoma along. The rest of the turnpike nowadays have the wire absorbing fence so they don’t have any more of these type of accidents. But as far as the bridges, a lot of them or almost single lane and were built in the early 50’s to 60s so they aren’t built to around 17’
That's my grandpa that rescued those people. He's the one with the black hair in the white van.
he's a good man.
That’s awesome. Your grandpa is a hero. Hope all is well.
Wow Kami your Grandpa did an amazing thing. A true hero. I know you're proud of him!
Tea Wells. Thank you. :) I've come from a family of heroes. I'm proud of him
Lamar Yarbray. Thank you :) I am very proud of him. I was watching this with him when I was little and realized that he was a hero. He's doing very well now
Seeing the old man walking at the end, and talking about his drive to regain mobility was absolutely beautiful.. The 2 gentlemen who came together separately and able to intuitively work together like that and bring the car to a stop, was nothing short of miraculous..Thank goodness for good people!
Amazingly quick thinking by Felix. What a guy.
The man that stopped the car is a hero:)
You Got That Right IDK!
YEP, HE EVEN MADE AN ILLEGAL MEDIAN-U-TURN...
@@sub2pewdiepienowunsubt-ser119 Who cares about a U turn at that point? There weren't police cars nearby, few cell phones were around at the time (costing well over $2,000 in equivalent dollars) and 3 people were in the car with others possibly in danger. They did the right thing.
in this story we have 3 heroes during the accident, the Van driver obviously, the driver of the other car and the wife as she kept the car from going against traffic on the other side of highway, and the grandpa was also a hero, as he persevered and got to walk again after surgery.
I hope the truck driver was heavily fined at least for causing the accident and lost his job
Totally Idk
This is one of the most involved episodes I've ever seen. It's not an effort of one person or even two. The two strangers, the wife, the doctor, the "walkers" and the victim all made combinations of massive successes for the most positive outcome.
It's mind-boggling to think that each of those things had to happen just as they did to have the outcome it did. There's just no other way they could have been saved.
i'm watching this in Dec 2019, love seeing the big hair and mullets and old cars. ;)
Thank God for people who care and act fast.
To the guy asking about the car, it's a Dodge Dynasty. My grandparents used to own one back in the day. They manufactured them between 1987 and 1993. However, I've seen a black Dynasty used in several episodes of this show so the car they were actually in might have been different.
c750dt Yep this one particularly is at least a 90 because of the driver side airbag
Thank God those men were there! Could have ended a lot worse! Also props to the wife being able to keep the car on the road, that was amazing!
That Van Driver deserves a GOLD MEDAL for the part He played in this Rescue!
I love this adorable guy. And his adorable rescuer.
Not to mention that most states post signs with the height of the next bridge a good quarter mile away.
One of the most expensive fines a trucker can ever get handed down is for having to be backed off a highway to the nearest entrance ramp to exit the road backwards. The only thing that costs more is actually destroying the bridge or getting wedged under it.
And know how high your load reaches.
The show was not cancelled because of that lawsuit. What happened was that 911 Burgers N' Dogs sold a candy bar called the 911 Rescue Bar, which pre-dated the Rescue 911 tv show. CBS sued 911 Burgers N' Dogs for use of the trademark but ultimately lost in 1993. CBS's Rescue 911 trademark (not the show) was cancelled, meaning they could no longer put the ® symbol by their logo. That's why Rescue 911 merch from 1993 or later uses ™ (which can be used for unregistered trademarks) instead of ®.
hmm: but they did not say rescue 911 bar so why would that be bad?
These are among my favorite type of R911 episodes...I'm always fascinated with stories involving random, average-Joe people coming to the rescue of somebody in grave need
Yeah, and the part from 1:23-1:30 was like something out of the movies.
WOW, SUCH AN AMAZING STORY AND ENDING. AND I THOUGHT ME PUSHING SOMEONE'S CAR WITH MY AUDI VEHICLE WHO RAN OUT OF GAS WAS SOMETHING. THESE MEN ARE HEROES FOR REAL. AWESOME HUMAN BEINGS.
This TV show should be released on DVD.
Doesn't matter, I'd still like to actually have it on DVD.
@@101Volts they should also bring this show back//k w/all new episodes and updates in this orig format
I think it should be too come out on dvd
It's also on UA-cam, so it's not a problem, but I will love it on Netflix, still hoping
I second that and agree with you 💯
Thanks for putting all these on here allgood2000. I wasn't even born before some of them. They are really interesting to watch I never had heard of this show before I saw them on here..
A generation or a full 27 years has gone by since this incident
Remember when cars actually had bumpers? These days it's just plastic and could never do this without causing lots of damage.
The also have a stronger a pillars now, so the windscreen probably wouldn't have collapsed in the first place.
And if it's not plastic it's very thin cheap metal.
raterus cars are much safer today
Yeah, nah.
Any new car could do this. Easily.
raterus
Yeah I miss 1900’s American cars
I was trapped in my car for three hours inhaling chlorine gas due to a train wreck. I will never forget my heroes. I know them all personally.
Oh gosh wow!! I’m so glad that you are still alive to tell about it! You definitely had an angel watching over you. If you don’t mind me asking, where did that happen? Was the car just so mangled that it took them that long to get you out? How are you feeling today? Sorry, I am truly intrigued by your story!
She tried that several times, but it looked like she was having trouble turning the keys and moving the gear shift. Keep in mind that she could only reach the steering wheel with one hand, so the car veered into the median each time she let go of the wheel to mess with the keys or gear shift. Also remember that the car was going 65-80 MPH, so there would likely have been a serious crash if she had lost control.
allgood2000 And she was reaching over the baby seat which was between them. This was before airbags and people being told babies and children belong in the back seat.
allgood2000 God Bless Grandma for being responsible n knowing she had to act n fast. She could have easily froze like some have n done nothing n this would of definitely had a different ending if it wasn’t for her.
One other thing to remember is cars were starting to have interlocks on them. So in order to get the gearshift into neutral, you usually have to also step on the break. And the key usually won't turn off when the car is in gear which is probably why she couldn't turn off the engine. And if she did manage to turn off the engine, she would've lost the power steering which is one reason why they made it so the key couldn't be turned when in gear.
Reaching back to this time allows me to remember when people lived. Such magical times... gone forever. If only we could renew the morale we once had.
mashroob forget it, people are much to greedy and self absorbed in America
When my mom was 9 years old she fell from a 3 story roof on to concrete. Amazing she didn't break her back or spine but she paralyzed for months. It stunted her growth so that she remained the size of a 9 year old. She is 4'4". She's 81 now and still active.
Can you imagine if people were still willing to help other like this, like they did back up until 2000ish.
Now they would have just recorded on their cell phone or something.
lmao sad but true
+Dan Coulson Sad, isn't it? =/
While attention to this issue is appreciated please do not generalize millions of Americans over the sordid actions of a smaller group of Americans.
@Dan Coulson Not everyone. Plenty would use their phones to call 911. We are blessed to have cell phones in an emergency!
I'd Doo both
That guy is a hero. no one would ever do that these days because they'd probably be worried about getting a ticket for making a u turn on the freeway.
Much different times then. The Dodge Dynasty was never equipped with a passenger-side airbag, only a driver-side from 1990-93. Also it was a six-passenger vehicle meaning the baby had it's own belt restraint, and the campaign to keep children in the rear seat really didn't start until the late '90s, and was due to the force of the passenger-side airbag. But I agree with you today I would never put an infant up front.
And if I'm not mistaken, even then airbags was a safety option that we had to pay extra for. Kinda like how things like power steering and A/C were. They weren't standard equipment quite yet.
Driving is not something to take lightly. If you drive, then drive as though your life depends on you driving safely; IT DOES!
In all rescue of 911 this is the one i always wanted to watch
Great story of heroism and a great job by the show on the re-creation.
It’s been 28 years since this happened so Eddie is 89 now. When I saw Eddie and Joanne’s car get crushed, I was frightened because I didn’t know if it would crash or not. Thank goodness Jim and Felix were both there because if they weren’t, I don’t think Eddie wouldn’t be alive now. This happened on a Wednesday.
More than likely he's passed away by now but I hope he got another good happy 15-20 years
@@JPMcFly1985 he's alive!!! He's 90 years old and very loved
@@JPMcFly1985I couldn’t find any obituaries for Eddie Quaid so my best guess is he’s still alive at 91 or 92 depends on birthday
17 years ago today... I am such a Rescue 911 nerd.
March 2, 2011 10:58 pm
whattheheck1000, me too......
It’s now Wednesday January 15 2025 2:09AM and I’m sat watching these from Leeds, England.
I remember that!! It was something metal that fell from the truck as it was passing the elderly gentleman's car, and the metal piece fell on the windsheild cracking it and hitting his thorat! Nasty!
I remember driving through stroud as a kid.
What a hero that the man from the white van is amazing the baby and mom not injured THATS a big miracle but poor man the driver what a heart of determination Eddie walked again he did it.
Wow,he has an awesome attitude! To see the people with walkers,and say "that's gonna be me"...amazing!
edie is lucky to be alive. man is tough as nails and has the ability to walk to prove it
Good ole Ford Aerostar saved the day ! They were the best little vans ever made!
Sometimes iguanas need rescuing, too.
Bring back Recuse 911!
I fear that the generation now dosent care about their fellow man enough to do something like what he did. They would be worried about their scratched bumper or how they might get hurt if they try to help. Thank God for the good people of the world that care about the welfare of their fellow man in their time of need no matter the cost.
@Luigi Turiano Nasty language not necessary or appropriate.
Not true! A man went to France and he claimed and jumped 4 stories up.the balconies to save a hanging baby! Good people will always exist to serve others!
Anyone else notice that every episode features at least one mullet!!?
Ryan Bruneau 😕
It's the era for them.
That was the style, my dad's friend had one lol. Mullets and rat tails were men styles lol
good times! mid nineties. ;)
Early to mid 90s was still in the shadow of the 80s, so lots of people (especially adults) were still hanging onto their mullets in like 1995
Thats a hero
2:13 It's kinda funny how 65 was considered fast back then. Driving now if you're not doing 80 then you're getting passed.
that is a brave, brave man god bless him i hope he gets the best out of life.
A baby should NEVER be in the front seat @0:34
Things were different years ago. Hell growing up I was never in a carseat.
You need to remember back the they had no laws or regulations on this. People and parents really didn't know any better then. People didn't fully realize the dangers.
Thankfully we don't see as much of this anymore, I'm not sure if the child would have been any better off behind the grandpa. that was an accident guided by angels for no one to be dead.
I lo e to see that their are still good Samaritans!! God bless them all
God bless those men that helped that family. 😊
it seemed his load was uneven. the back part was higher so when he got the first part of his load through the back clipped. He could have been misinformed about his loads height. It could have readjusted while driving. Or he could have ignored or missed the sign. I think only the driver can say exactly what happened.
This is a reeanactment you know.
That and the load was too high for that bridge. Scary.
Judging from the can opener bridge videos on here, I suspect that, like most American drivers, he ignored the sign
awesome story thanks to the dude driving at first and saw the situation
Why was the baby in the front seat like that?
Ask them.
This was in a time when all new cars didnt have airbags and people still had car seats in the front. The whole idea of having children 12 and under riding in the back seat had just been implemented.
going by the look of the cars, this was back anywhere sometime between the 80's or 90's. Laws was very, very different back then compared to today.
@Chris Bradley Not my daughter was born 1980. She was in car seat backwards in backseat at that age.
Back then there weren't a whole lot of laws about car seats and kíds. As a small child I remember kids in the front seat. My sisters and I used to argue about it at 4 and 5 and 9. When we brought my infant cousin home from the hospital in 93 he was in the front seat.
The Reenactments Are So Freakin GOOD.
Man people were so nice back then, now it seems if that happened nobody would have cared. 😞. That guy in the van was a true legend.
these videos really show how saftey measures have gone up. for example in this one they invented car seats.
the one with the runaway train cars there are now dividers on the tracks not jsut lights and so on.
Felix Is a real hero
240p... I've missed you
So nostalgic
@steven2be2003 This was 1994, and this car had no passenger airbag.
Good job like the style need more people like that smart thinking way to go . Joe
I tell you one thing that got destroyed, that trucker's career! Even if somehow he was found not guilty for the height discrepancy, he'll never want to drive a truck again.
Probably never did
Those tanks couldn't fit under that bridge, they should have used a semi with a sunken trailer.
I hope that truck driver was charged and never allowed to drive again.
truck drivers have accidents. this is not the first time something like that has happened.
What if he knew the height and thought it would clear but the signs were incorrect? I'm not trying to excuse poor behavior and sweep it under a rug; it's just that this possibility needs to be considered.
Those types of loads have to be carried on low flatbed trailers or gooseneck trailers. Also, because of the 10' radius, it is classified as an oversized load and should have red flags and warning signs on the front and rear of the truck.
jmm2000 They also need a high pole car as well.
Season 6 episodes seem cooler to me because there were rescues never shown in the early years of RESCUE 9-1-1- that werent unusual like Shark attack # 601, christmas bulb choke # 612 and this segment # 629
1:24 exactly how are those big tanks supposed to fit under that bridge? 🤔
Michael Eaton this is why we have oversized vehicle chase vehicles to measure the height of bridges. Pilot cars. This is why we have those.
They don’t their supposed to use the off and on ramp to drive over the pass. This still happens i work in the bridge industry and we’ve had jobs to build a single overpass girder beam, which I believe was needed for such an event. Idk state laws but ADOT and highway patrol officers inspect all of our oversized loads before they leave (standard for AZ)
They aren't. Obviously the driver fucked up.
13 years ago, in 1994 only some very new cars had a passenger airbag. The car had a driver airbag.
OMG those men that helped are heros . The Angels were certainly looking out for the family and the rescuers.
Oh, someone who lives in that area sent me some episodes he had on tape. I acutally had this one on tape as well, but his recording had better picture quality, so I used it instead.
It's an iguana named Claudia that falls from a tree into a swimming pool.
The owner of the iguana cannot get the iguana down because his arm is in a cast.
The cop has to revive the iguana using mouth to mouth after getting it out of the pool.
A cop stops boxcars pushing a car down train tracks, A woman gets re-ended at a railraod crossing and a man pulls her out of her car before the trains hits, a woman's car stalls on the tracks while her baby is inside, an Amtrak wreck in Maryland, toddlers playing on train tracks, a boy falls into a boxcar, a man tries to beat a train to catch a burglar at his store and his truck gets hit, a teen and his aunt are hit by a train while driving in fog, a man collapses on subway tracks.
Those 2 men saved 3 lives that day! They are true heros. Wonder if they got any compensation from the company who's oil tanks crushed them.
Cars back then didn't have airbags on the passenger side (the Dynasty only had a driver airbag, the actual car in the real life incident might not have been a Dynasty) so it wasn't as bad to put a child seat in the front seat of a car. But you are correct in stating that the rear seat is the best place for a baby seat, there is no doubt about that.
This was actually a Season 7 episode. Episode 625 was the last episode to air during Season 6. Episodes 626-630 aired during Season 7.
I remember seeing this episode when I was a kid, I was scared of being in the car near semi trucks for a while.
Claydood same here. I was almost hysterical going by some.
This man is a hero god bless him
this segment is like the airplane segment called "terror in the sky" where a husband has a heartattack while flying an airplane in the sky and his wife had to fly the airplane as her husband was dying of a heartattack.
It’s been 30 years since this happened so Eddie is 91 now. At the time this happened, I was 11 1/2 almost 12 and my brother was 9 1/2. I have a feeling that we were at school at the time this happened. It had been 10 months since we moved to Charlotte, North Carolina from Fountain Hills, Arizona. It was our first March in North Carolina. I would be frightened if something like this happened to my father. I’m sure he can never thank Felix enough for what he did for him.
The baby in the front seat scares me more
In other words, it helps to ple-plan a route like that to avoid potential accidents.
Thai is a real hero! I dought any one in this world would ever do something like that
Back when babies didn’t even have to be in car seats, rear facing in the back seat. So glad that things have changed and we have pretty advanced safety precautions for our little ones.
Vicky Esca makes me think of my best friend Ava Wade, Ava and I both on the same track team for winter track, she knows about this serious accident she found out that Eddie was seriously injured in the crushed sedan, she’s grateful no one else was injured in that horrible wreck. A bunch of my other friends know about this accident when I showed them
@momof2girls84 It wasn't on her lap. It was a car seat in the middle position of a bench seat. In the days before airbags, that was common, because it allowed the person not driving to tend to the baby.
That trucker was negligent, if he had to carry stuff that tall, he should have used a lowboy trailer . If that was a lowboy instead of a standard flatbed, the whole thing could have been prevented
You are definitely correct that the truck 🛻 driver was negligent and should lose his license
Not always, my friend was in a crash when he was 6 (about 10 years ago) and the back seat was obliterated. Had he not been riding up front, he would be dead.
The wife and the two guys who stopped the car are heroes. The two guys could of passed by but they helped prevent a tragedy.
definitely EDGE OF YOUR SEAT situation. I found myself saying "come on, come on" over and over.
The wife of the old man didn't panic..she was holding the steering wheel..till the two guys rescued them.
Everyone is a hero in this story..
Every car (given, they are automatics) I've ever driven will not let you switch to park (or reverse, for that matter) unless the brake pedal is depressed. It's a safety measure to prevent not only insane accidents (automatic stop from 65+ mph?!) but also to prevent you from totally fudging up your transmission.
As a truck driver I feel that that truck driver should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law because he gives the rest of us safe driver's a bad name I pull a lowboy trailer and haul very heavy wide and tall items and every time I climb up on my load measure the width length and height and plan accordingly to that information so I won't be responsible for something like this.
I think every-body is the hero, not just the grandmother
this was aired before 1996. I remembered watching it before my parents divorced in 1994.
The same story may have aired on a different show, but the Rescue 911 episode first aired on February 8, 1996.
The Mullet power is real here
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Hauler is supposed to check his route ahead of time to make sure he can clear all overpasses. This guy obviously did not.
NEVER EVER EVER put the baby in the front passenger seat with you. The baby needs to be faced backwards in the back seat, strapped together along the back seat. These people should be fortunate the baby survived this ordeal!
He is right
I agree, I often forget that I am watching a re-enactment ! I've never seen another show, before OR after this series, that is this realistic. Too bad they took it off the air.
I know someone who DID lose their son, their daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild in one day. His son and daughter-in-law worked together at the same company in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. She was 7 months pregnant and was scheduled to go on maternity leave. September 11 was supposed to be her last day at work before beginning her leave.
I experimented with that (going slow 2-3 miles per hour) not easy on certain cars, easier if has an emergency break next to divers seat. But the newer cars will not disengage the drive unless completely stopped. Also harder to do if passenger rather then driver because some shifts can only be engaged by the diver! (lady was passenger (older at that) and the baby was probably blocking her too. Not to mention her husbands foot on the gas and the damage to the car she did and excellent job!
Strangely enough, nowadays, people would most likely pull out their cell phones and take pictures or video rather than call 911 let alone try and stop the car the way these people did... just saying...
they took this show off air not because of any lawsuit but because it's rating one year went from number 48 to 84. the decline in viewers caused it to be bumped and another show to take it's place. Television is all based upon ratings if another show out rates it it will take it's place. Most shows are taken off either because of bad ratings or even a show that out does the other.
Thank goodness during that time it had the grass in the center beside if that were today the guy would’ve not been able to turn around that quickly on the turnpike because it’s got a concrete divider that runs along from Oklahoma City to Tulsa and the only openings are several miles apart for only the OTA and OHP. Of course, the concrete divider would’ve saved her from almost going into the concrete pillars or head on traffic. But I believe the OTA started building the dividers back in 1997 on the turnpikes here in Oklahoma along. The rest of the turnpike nowadays have the wire absorbing fence so they don’t have any more of these type of accidents. But as far as the bridges, a lot of them or almost single lane and were built in the early 50’s to 60s so they aren’t built to around 17’
I love rescue 911 and unsolved mysteries with Robert stack
I don't think I would have had any idea how to stop that car.