In 1987 my friends and I drove a van from Toronto to Wisconsin to see the Grateful Dead play three shows at Alpine Valley. On the way back, we were all asleep when we hit the exit sign for the turnoff to Climax, Michigan. This woke everyone up … including the driver. We probably would have been fine but the driver tried to steer back up the embankment onto the road at which point the van rolled twice, ended up on its roof, and slid to a stop. A few minutes later a trucker opened the rear door and we all clamoured out. My two friends from the front looked to be covered in blood … but it was just dirt tilled by the sliding roof and scooped through the broken windshield. The trucker was shocked. He said that in cases like this, usually everyone was dead.
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