Man survives boulder destroying car on Hwy. 50
The driver survived a boulder crashing into his vehicle on Highway 50. Photo/Caltrans
By Tom Miller, KCRA-TV
A rock slide along Highway 50 caused a massive boulder to land on the front end of a pickup truck, nearly killing the driver as he headed to Lake Tahoe.
The Toyota Tacoma’s driver, who asked to be identified as Mike, didn’t see the cliff breaking apart as he drove eastbound on the highway near Wrights Lake Road around 4:30pm Monday.
The boulder, at least 5-feet high and seven feet long, just missed Mike and his dog Shasta, clipping the front of Mike’s feet.
Mike’s toe was broken by the boulder. He said he is still dealing with the shock.
Holy cr*p! I never did like that part of the drive coming into or going out of the basin. Glad he’s OK.
We were probably 8 cars back headed Westbound, just before Wrights Lake Rd, traffic was stopped for probably 75 minutes, saw the truck on a tow truck trailer after, but saw it’s good side, and saw the damaged sedan. Now I know why it took so long to clear, but it didn’t look that bad when we drove by the 2 vehicles.
There was a huge boulder in the road east of Cave Rock yesterday, too, near Logan Shoals. Came around the corner and YIPES!!
I have been cutting firewood on the top of wrights road for 20 years now. I remember this happening on Ice House road many years back. Freaking nuts!
Glad they’re ok. Scary.