Texting driver recovering from buttocks impalement

[El Supremo]

ELIZABETH, CO - Doctors say it's remarkable that a woman from Elizabeth survived a crash that she blames on texting and driving.

Her trauma surgeon, Dr. Chris Winters, says Christina Jahnz is among the lucky ones after being impaled by a guardrail pole.

Dr. Winters says he was in his office last Wednesday at Parker Adventist Hospital when he received a call that a patient was in the emergency room and needed his care. He and his crew immediately took x-rays and examined the way in which the pole entered her body.

"Looking at the trajectory of the pole, it was fairly apparent that it was relatively peripheral. With a different direction of the pole it could have caused life threatening injuries," Dr. Winters explained. "Had that trajectory started just a few inches more to the right it would have gone squarely through her pelvis."

Don't look at the picture! http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2014/09/04/texting-driver-recovering-from-buttucks-impalement/15100047/

[ManiacJoe]

1. I will ask the obvious question.

How does one get impaled in the ass by a railing while driving a car at slow speeds?

[Blue_Tires]

3. Run over the railing, it fractures and 'splinters',

and a shard comes up through the floorboard and seat, both of which aren't really that thick...

Did the hospital really have to show a photo to the news? I hope to god they got that woman's approval...

[ManiacJoe]

4. In theory, sure.

I still want to see the car.

[deafskeptic]

5. I dunno why that picture was on the news. That looks like a horrific injury. She was lucky!

I agree the photo was disturbing. I think it was a questionable thing to show it in the news.

[NutmegYankee]

9. I tend to support showing gruesome photos.

It tends to get the point across to people in a way that words just don't. Showing that photo and the phrase "this could be you", would probably get a few people to stop texting while driving.

[deafskeptic]

10. I dunno about the effectiveness of those photos but I guess it's worth showing it could be you. n/t

[pipi_k]

12. I do too. Also...

I support even more gruesomeness for actual offenders.

Especially teenaged offenders.

Get caught doing anything that could injure or kill someone else and earn yourself a trip to the local ER or morgue to view the results of self-centered stupidity.

[Nye Bevan]

2. OMG POLE IN MY ASS G2G BRB!!!!! (nt)

[pipi_k]

13. hahahaha!!! And that's after

taking a selfie and posting it on Facebook.

[TwilightGardener]

14. LOL.

[840high]

6. Don't text and drive.

[jmowreader]

7. They should put that pic on every billboard in the country

"Don't text and drive if you don't want a pole in your ass."

[NutmegYankee]

8. Wow, I've often commented that people texting while driving are a pain in the ass...

But damn!

As for those questioning impalement like this - a search of the web finds many others from car accidents. It does happen. She is extremely lucky that she didn't suffer far more severe injury.

[Eleanors38]

11. Well, it buttressed your argument.

[Orrex]

15. Damn near killed 'em.