I was searching another forum for some information for a friend of mine when I came across a thread about wheeling with out some form of door.
I personally run a set of tube doors during the summer, visibility is great and they still offer some protection.
I have seen a ton of pictures on Yotatech and other forums of people wheeling with out doors. Than I saw this picture:


anybody see that foot between the rock and the slider??
The driver's leg got fubarred pretty good.

If you wheel, please use some form of door whether it is a tube door or half door...
Keep it safe PSA over now

 

, that guy's foot is seriously pinched. I couldn't imagine wheeling without doors anyway, for this reason exactly.

I came from car racing to offroading, doors definitely offer a lot of protection. Whether its another car coming at you at 80mph or the ground coming at you a door's going to save your ass or at least keep you from being in worse shape than without it.

 

yikes

 

ouch!

is it just the picture or does it look like someone just cut out the whole front passenger corner of that rig?

 

Looks like he somehow lost the front driver side wheel...

OUCH though...

 

Yeah, he's gonna need a good physical therapist. Ouch!!

 

It's going to be hard for that poor guy to operate a clutch with a peg leg. That pic makes me think of adding plexi-glass or lexan to my tube doors in order to add just one more measure of safety. :hafta tinker:

 

my guess is that it started to go over and he stuck his leg out to try to stop it, the same way that some people will reach out the window . . . .

 

ooh, that's gonna leave a mark.

 

The truck actually just went over a bush or a branch or something, the wheel's still there the status of his leg however, not so hopeful

 

There is a big difference between stiff arming a safety and stiff arming the earth even for tim tebow. (I read somewhere that superman wears tim tebow pajamas)

 

that ankle is crushed he really messed up and not only have a door use seat belts

 

Hes gonna have to drive an automatic now

 

Never wheeled with an auto tranny or never wheeled with someone who has one in their vehicle and knows how to use it, have you




Fred

 

That happened a while back...I think that was at Tellico...his name escapes me at the moment. Should be a thread about it on TTORA...perhaps even here.

 

i think i found the pic in thread on pirate

 

also, if you wheel without doors you could possibly flex your body enough so as you cannot put the doors back on

 

we wheel without doors alot around here, it just makes you choose more carefully what type of obstacles you want to try. If i dont have doors on a rig i just take straps and run them across where the door would be, it doesnt really offer protection but it can keep you in the vehicle at least. i don't see that as being much worse than riding on a quad. even if your quad is going over you don't stick your foot out to try and stop it i don't think a truck is much different. i definitely wouldn't play in big rocks without doors though for obvious reasons.

 

Objects can also enter into the driver or passenger compartments during a rollover so it's simply comes down to how much of a risk taker you are and a bit of Darwin's Theory at work. I'd never wheeel doorless.

 

That guy's name is Daniel Priddy and he is from TN and that is at Tellico....

This happened back in 2005.



Pics of the ankle


All finished and recovered