(NEWSER) – A Florida man was killed when he crashed into a fire hydrant, was pulled into a hole under his car by the resulting flood of water, and drowned, WESH reports. It was his 89th birthday. According to News 13, Robert Dreyer hit the hydrant in Viera around 10am Wednesday. He got out of his car and dropped into what witnesses estimate was a 5-foot-deep hole. The hole was possibly made by the force of the crash and resulting water pressure. “The force of the water created an air pocket and sucked him down into the hole where he was under water for some period of time,” Lt. Channing Taylor of the Florida Highway Patrol says.
With water shooting several feet into the air, witnesses attempted to pull Dreyer from the hole, Florida Today reports. One witness says the water pressure was too great to free Dreyer; another says the situation was dangerous for anyone attempting to help. Witnesses did eventually pull Dreyer out of the hole. They estimate he was under water for three or four minutes. Dreyer was pronounced dead at the hospital. An investigation by the Florida Highway Patrol is ongoing.
(Picture is not from the scene of this accident. It is for illustrative purposes only.)
poor guy … another on my list of ‘ways I don’t want to die’
At least he didn’t drown in a sewer.
http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/21/workers_family_sues_city/
That ain’t the way I wanna go out!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYE4ajhUBvs
Never fear. It’s Florida Man. He never stays dead for long. They’ll be another headline about him next week.
At 89, a quick death is a good death. Not being calloused here. Compare it to disease. A long, lingering disease.
This could be a riddle,like this one.
A scuba diver was found dead in the foothills, 70 miles from the nearest body of water.He was in full gear. How’d it happen ?
@anon – he was scooped by an aircraft getting water to drop on a forest fire….and then dropped.
I’m with you, PHenry. Die like a man, not in some nursing home.
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDIMyISm9SE
When Jimmy Kimmel was funny.
RIP Mr. Dreyer. As noted by others it was a quick way to go and in any event Sir you beat the clock.
You got it .45-70 ! my name’s not showing ?
If he’s a democrat he’ll get a new lease on life at the polls on election day. He may be “alive” for many more years.
Oh, well, happy birthday…
I do not want to go by drowning. Your not dead for the last minute or two, but you’re not going to live. All you can do is blink your eyes and wait.