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HUMMER H2 - It Only Looks Tough
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Rodney Udd, who owns the Hummer of Alaska dealership in Anchorage, was treated at and released from Providence Alaska Medical Center on Monday after he drove his Hummer through a red light, hit two vehicles and then sped down the road, where he hit two more vehicles, police said. (Photo by Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News)

Source: http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1672787p-1789726c.html

Hummer wreaks rush-hour chaos
CRASHES: Driver runs light, hits four vehicles, police say.

By Peter Porco
Anchorage Daily News (Published: August 27, 2002)
At least two people were injured Monday afternoon after a motorist drove a new Hummer through a red light, slammed into two vehicles and then sped down the wrong side of the road and hit two more vehicles, police said.

One car hit by the Hummer caromed into a van, making for a total of six vehicles in what looked to other drivers like a demolition derby.

The man behind the wheel of the Hummer was Rodney Udd. He owns the Hummer of Alaska dealership on Fifth Avenue, according to salesman Howard Castle at Anchorage Chrysler Dodge, Hummer's parent company.

Udd was treated at and released from Providence Alaska Medical Center, a nursing supervisor said. He could not be reached for comment Monday night.

Police Sgt. Gil Davis said police are still investigating.

"There doesn't seem to be any alcohol involved," he said. "It may be some kind of medical problem, maybe a seizure."

The crash tied up rush-hour traffic on DeBarr Road. At 6:15 p.m., two hours later, the maroon Hummer lay crossways in the eastbound lanes of DeBarr, its front end mashed to an unrecognizable tangle, its door alarm ringing and radio playing.

"It's still got that new-car smell," Davis said.

The 2003 Hummer, Castle said, was Udd's demonstration model, worth about $60,000. It was totaled, police said.

The Hummer, southbound on Airport Heights Drive, had stopped for a red light at DeBarr. The driver sat through the green light, Davis said, and when the light changed again to red, he took off into the intersection.

Tammy Morse, a 32-year-old delivery driver westbound on DeBarr, was behind the wheel of the first vehicle struck by the Hummer, a white Pet Pantry van. She braked hard and the Hummer opened a hole in her front bumper but bounced away into another vehicle, she said.

"He just plowed through everybody else," said Morse, who was uninjured. "He ignored me, hit the extended-cab (truck) and turned and headed down the sidewalk."

The Hummer spun around after striking the second vehicle and then sped west down the eastbound side of DeBarr, she said.

"I couldn't believe it," Morse said.

It seemed even more shocking to Jenette Jemison, a 21-year-old student driving east in her sister's late-model Mazda sedan.

Heading up the hill outside Alaska Regional Hospital, Jemison found the square-nosed, wide-body Hummer -- the civilian version of the military's Humvee -- coming straight for her.

"He was on the sidewalk, and I'm thinking, 'What the hell!' " Jemison said. " 'He's going to turn away.' But he doesn't. He just keeps coming."

Jemison said traffic was heavy and drivers around her were blowing their horns and trying to get out of the way. She squeezed left but not far enough. The Hummer came off the sidewalk and smashed into the Mazda, spinning it into the left lane, where it was hit by a van.

A few car lengths later, the Hummer smashed head-on into a Dodge Ram pickup. "That ended it," Davis said.

The pickup driver, unidentified Monday evening, was treated for minor injuries at Providence and released, Davis said.

Reporter Peter Porco can be reached at pporco@adn.com and at 907 257-4582.
Posted on Sunday, June 08 @ 13:54:03 CEST by Zhen-Xjell
 
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Re: HUMMER H2 - It Only Looks Tough (Score: 1)
by snarfies3 on Sunday, June 08 @ 15:02:04 CEST
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In all fairness, that IS a pretty tough machine. Most cars would look like that or worse after hitting ONE car (if they're moving fast). This hit four cars, the final one being a pickup - not exactly the smallest car one could hit.



Re: HUMMER H2 - It Only Looks Tough (Score: 1)
by Cergorach on Sunday, June 08 @ 17:51:03 CEST
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There's a reason people make cars that aren't as though as tanks, they are supposed to be vunerable, otherwise people would ride like idiots AND get away with it. After hitting four cars, i think the hummer is more tank like than it ougth to be...

I'm still mad at the dutch government that we aren't allowed to own hummers to drive down the public road!



Re: HUMMER H2 - It Only Looks Tough (Score: 1)
by allevon on Sunday, June 08 @ 21:46:50 CEST
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I feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to drive a Japanese car and get hit by a Hummer.

However, my only complaint with Hummers and other SUV's is that they have become the standard vehicle of housewives for grocery runs. 90% cant drive a car let alone an Explorer. Over half cant park or make turns without oversteering 5 miles before getting it into the space. Forget parallel parking. No Im not sexists, theirs some men who drive like this too.

Anyone in NJ can attest to this. We got retards in Jettas and Civics that sound like Lawn mowers shopping carts, go slower than a Yugo on exlaxx and the kids think they KNOW how to drive, especially cutting you off and crashing into a tree usually. Ah Yes, One less s**mbag off the road. :)

Then you got the previously mentioned housewives in SUV's, their husbands in Hemi Ram's, NYC tourists (Who we all know cant drive without HIGHBEAMS ON) STOPPING in the LEFT lane of the Turnpike to ask for directions, Foreigners going the wrong way down one-way streets, and computer programmer types from India/Middle East doing 30mph in the left in Carollas on the phone while they get the finger from people like me having to pass them on the right in Cougars and Malibus.

Yes people, a day in the life of driving in NJ, see why Hummer isnt loved that much.

No one can actually drive the way it was built for in this state, and I bet at least 95% never get a speck of off-road mud on them ever. Its only for your status. Which I feel, if you got one, and I see your just a housewife, then your just an insecure retard and I look down at you as a person while I zip down the road and get to my destination way long before you do in my Cougar that can handle turns at 80mph while you got to slow to 35 so you don't flip.

Tee Hee.



Re: HUMMER H2 - It Only Looks Tough (Score: 1)
by Zona-Software on Thursday, July 15 @ 21:09:36 CEST
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Wow xDD


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