Not knowing the driver, I can only speculate that she was in over her head on this trail.
The spotter was not using standard hand signals in guiding her down.
When he was moving and did not have his hands up providing direction, she should have stopped.
Not being there, do not know if they did a drivers meeting to discuss this specific hill or not.
If I was leading the trail ride, I would have held a specific brief on this hill at the top.
The briefing would have talked about hand signals to be used, position of the transfer case, and gear box.
The jeep took off way to fast to be in low and first for being a rubicon.
The jeep looks like it held up really well in the first roll. The hit on the end is where most of the damage came from and probably the issues with the driver.
Here are some pictures from the roll-over our club had at Panamint last year.
The lessons we learned, was to be prepared. We had all the typical first aid kits and CB radios.
But the driver had a major laceration on her head, and all the small bandages were used up before the cut was fully covered.
Had to send a vehicle down the hill almost back to base camp to get communications about the roll-over.
Once we had a ham radio up to the accident scene, things still did not improve.
Roll-over happened at about 3:30, and she was not airlifted out until about midnight.
Most of us in the club are working to complete our ham certification.
Todd
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