Car destroyed in rockslide on Whistler highway
Newsbot @ Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:19 am
Title: Car destroyed in rockslide on Whistler highway
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-04-14 17:17:59
Canadian
crystalsm @ Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:19 am
Those are some big frickin' rocks. 
Guy is lucky to have walked away with just minor injuries!
andyt @ Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:23 am
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 @ Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:39 am
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 @ Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:42 am
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 @ Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:45 am
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 @ Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:52 am
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.