Keith@VetteFinders

A Friday afternoon crash sent the driver of this 1987 Corvette to the hospital. The man was driving near Tiverton, RH when his Corvette left the road and went into a swampy area, rolled on its roof and trapped the driver under it.

When rescuers showed up, it took 40 minutes to free the trapped driver. He was airlifted to a Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries but was conscious and alert.

http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2012/...021812_c4crash

Tommy T-Bone

Looks like it will have plenty of nice parts on it.

Caboboy

What a shame, I hope he's OK.

That looks like a classic case of too much car, not enough driver

pmihaltian

Looks like yet another totaled C4. Hope the guy is okay.

Cruisinfanatic

based on what?

H P Bushrod

High performance car, low performance driver. Glad he's OK.

Y-ME

We had a fatality a couple towns over involving an 85 about a month ago.

Y-ME

His wheels are on backwards, just sayin'.

Tommy T-Bone

Hmm. I see wet roads and cold weather. Summer performance tires do not generally take kindly to the cold if that's what he was running.

Eakster

Always good to know a rollover in these things is survivable

BigDR

His rear tires look a little slick.

Thdude

Forty minutes to free him? That's forever! My brothers in fire and rescue and it hardly ever takes over 30 minutes to free someone, and that's if freeing them would hurt them somehow.

I mean jeez the roof pops right off these things, it's a lite car so they should have had no problems flipping it

93Rubie

It appears to have held up pretty good. Looks like some good parts on that one.

dukeallen

I heard of a guy named Bubba that can make it good as new with some duct tape and a spray can.

pologreen1

For all the pro racers on this forum saying that car is too much says it all about the people saying it.

Clearly the roads were worse before the pics and the car was not prepped for that. Anybody could have done that in those tires and conditions. I see a lot of trees too so maybe he saved himself from a head collision of something too.

Regardless... I hope he gets away with just a hurt '87 corvette.

delphipgmr

the rims are on backwards, i wonder if he had some "jiffy lube" rotate the tires for him at the last oil change, and had the directionals pointed the wrong way too.

Brebello

As a family member he is fine and he is a good driver something went wrong with the car and he couldn't control it he was on his way home we are very fortunate that he is still here with us today. It was his first real ride in the car had just finished it up and registered it that day and something went wrong took it on many test rides down that same road and everything was fine. People say some nasty things when they don't even know the full story or extent of his injuries or even how the family feels when they see rude comments

mrmtrtrnd

So glad to hear that he's OK and what bad stroke of luck with what looks like a nice car. It is very easy to talk trash when someone is setting at a computer and don't have any idea what the facts are. Give him our best wishes from the Forum.

Caboboy

Uhhhh...........nevermind.......

Frizlefrak

When I saw "swamp" my first thought was crocs. Glad he's OK.