We all know that driving can be dangerous in almost limitless ways. You can be hit by another vehicle, a ladder falling off the front of the truck, a tire blown out for no reason, you can be a fire truck near Teslaetc. Unfortunately, there’s a new way of driving that ruins you, and unfortunately for Tulsa band, Oklahoma Cliffdiverthey discovered what it was on a recent drive from their hometown to Vegas.
The band set off from Tulsa super excited about this first trip in their new, much more luxurious touring van, only to have things go very, very wrong about an hour later. According to guitarist/singer Matt Ehler, everything was going well until all of a sudden there was “a huge BOOM sound like a cannon being fired as the entire front of the car was covered with shards of glass and dust.” ‘ from the driver’s side window being impacted by something.
Just then, he noticed bassist Tyler Rogers covered in blood and blood spewing from his neck. Scary as it was, the fact that Rogers was the driver meant that his foot hit the gas pedal when he lost consciousness and the truck began to accelerate. Ehler managed to take his foot off the pedals and steer the steering wheel, but Rogers’s seat belt buckle made this difficult.
In the end, Ehler was basically able to sit on Rogers’ lap and stop the van so they could start giving Rogers first aid. The band members in the background shouted instructions on what to do for first aid and how to apply pressure to the wound while another called 911. Thankfully, the band was right next to the one-mile marker. so the truck is easy to find.
Emergency services arrived promptly and put Rogers in an ambulance, during which he briefly regained consciousness, the band felt a lot more relieved and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. lifesaving surgery. Doctors estimated that he had lost up to two liters of blood. For reference, the human body contains a total of about five (or about 1.25 gallons).
The sheriff who arrived to investigate said a large broken link found in Rogers’ neck likely came from a broken load-bearing chain on a passing pickup truck. When the chain broke due to stress, the link sped off at lightning speed, and Cliffdiver’s van turned out to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Thankfully, luck was on Rogers’ side because thanks to the quick thinking and first aid of his teammates, he was able to get to the hospital alive despite a carotid artery perforation and a torn jugular vein, as well as a tear in the jugular vein. breakneck. . His survival rate is extremely low, but he was moved out of the ICU and recovered less than 24 hours after surgery, and it looks like he will make a full recovery without the brain damage caused by surgery. bleed.
Naturally, with this happening, the band had to cancel performances and Tyler Rogers wouldn’t be able to work for a while. so the band set up a GoFundMe page to help with his medical expenses. We are sure it will be appreciated if you want to spend a few dollars or buy music by Cliffdiver on Bandcamp.
