Vehicle Rolls ’10-20 Times’ on Highway 36
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At this point, the type of vehicle involved is unknown, but we will update this post when we get more information. Please avoid the area.
Update 9:45 a.m.: The vehicle involved is reported to be a red Toyota 4Runner that went 70 feet down an embankment. According to scanner traffic, the patient had already left the scene when emergency personnel arrived. The air ambulance has been canceled.
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…rolled 10 to 20 times and [then] went off the roadway”…???
Or …”went off the roadway”, “and” [then] “rolled 10 to 20 times”…???
10 to 20 is a heck of a lot of rollovers, prior to leaving the roadway…
It’s even a great deal of rollovers after leaving the roadway…
Must have been doing about 100 mph or more, and/or went over and rolled down a long, steep, obstructed embankment…
Hopefully they were slow, tumbling, gentle rolls, and the occupants will survive…
Like Alice or Alec in Wonderland. “I’m late, I’m late for a very important date”. Hoping everyone is OK.
Probably late for church…!!!
Hoping it wasn’t their wedding day!
Scanner traffic and the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page didn’t specify whether the vehicle began rolling before or after it left the roadway, so I kept the wording intentionally vague to remain accurate and avoid making assumptions.
Understandable…
But I guess what I am still wondering, is how anyone could have possibly walked away from that not badly injured, and if the occupants were possibly ejected, and either way, might still be in the vicinity, but be quite a bit more challenging to locate, than just being found (or not) still in the vehicle…???
Especially if all of the reported rollovers happened on the roadway, before it ever left the roadway…
That’s a very significant mechanism of injury, that wouldn’t be normal to just walk away from, that normally be associated with being carried away on a stretcher, one way, or another, if one even lived through it…
I guess my point is, is that this story isn’t really over, until the occupant(s) location/outcome has eventually/ finally been determined…
Until then, it remains a mystery, with likely continuing suffering…
Because it sure seems to me that one or more people may be badly injured or worse, and also unaccounted for…
I’m hoping that the search/rescue for/of them won’t be discontinued and or called off prematurely, just because they couldn’t be easily and/or immediately located…
Or they somehow made it to a hospital…
It’s beyond me to just assume that they just walked away uninjured, and discontinue the investigation into their whereabouts, until they are located and their conditions are ultimately determined…
Keep up the good work, Oliver Cory, and thank you for your response and clarification…
Hopefully, all is well…
Do you think that Miranda had something to do with it? Same area and you know how he is….
Sounds fishy.
Just to clarify,
Your headline was perfectly accurate, as far as what was initially reported…
My question was with would have been the accuracy of the initial report, not with your subsequent reconveyance of that initial report…
Says the guy walked away, or at least, left the scene!
It actually doesn’t say “The guy walked away”, Jim…
Or that he…
“…left the scene!…
Here is the pertinent information, from LostCoast Outpost…
“9:14 a.m.
[13] 1039 CF WITH UPDATE
9:40 a.m.
[14] [Notification] [CHP]-CF IS 1097 NEG PATIENT ON SCENE POSS SELF TRANSPORT”
-LostCoast Outpost-
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“NEG[ATIVE] PATIENT ON SCENE”…???
“POSS[IBLE] SELF TRANSPORT”…???
-CalFire-
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More like first arriving responders were…
…”UTL”…
(Unable To Locate.)
Simply walking away unharmed after flipping a vehicle 10-20 times is virtually impossible, and at best is extremely unlikely, especially in the event of multiple occupants of a red forerunner…which the comments suggest..
It isn’t out of the question that there are still badly injured patient(s), or worse, concealed over the bank, and/or away from the vehicle, yet to be located, that still need prompt medical attention/ recovery…
After 10-20 flipping rollovers, 70 feet over the bank, call it a hunch…
An educated guess, that is…
Don’t call off the bloodhounds just yet, is my opinion…
Bring in the K9, to locate any potential victims that might not be found in time otherwise…
Someone commented on another post that a red 4 Runner with a male and female were seen driving recklessly. “The patient”, might actually be two.
One or both of them may also have been ejected a great distance from the vehicle…
If the passenger was badly injured, the driver, if intoxicated, may be trying to conceal the injured passenger, and himself, in order to avoid legal consequences…
Multiple roll overs down an embankment on hwy 36, in the back country and walking away makes one word come to mind, “lucky”.
Could be 4-8 flips on the road the 5-10 off the road.
Just for assumption, let’s say the 4Runner is 5’ wide and 5’ tall. It’d take 20’ to roll once so the max it could roll would be about 4 times down 70’ if it went at an angle.
My 4Runner is over 6′ tall
Notice my third word …
The weird thing to me is that this doesn’t feel weird. I’ve only lived in Hum a few decades but Hwy 36 seems to swallow people up. Like, they are on it or near it, then they are missing.
Was the surrounding area checked in case the occupant/s were thrown from the vehicle?
No mile marker? There’s a hairpin that really sneaks up on ya around 39 … considering people drive like jackwads out there.
Dottie knows, it’s right be her place.
Yep…
Mile Marker 38.70
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/chpwatch/2026/may/31/260531HM0033/
Vehicle Flips Multiple Times in Hit and Run on Highway 36 East Hum 38.70, No Injuries Reported
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Someone should go back there today and check for possible buzzards circling, gathering, and feeding, even at a distance..
If for nothing else, than to rule out the possibility occupants still being there, or within walking/limping distance…
The Lost Coast Outpost link indicates that some official went back around 12:21 PM to double check for patients/victims and found none around the vehicle, indicating a foot trail near the roadway, but at least one commenter mentioned the possibility of two occupants, and just one foot trail near the roadway could have been from the reporting party…
At least some official sent another official to go back and double check for ejections…
That’s reassuring…
I appreciate it…