Truck Recovery in Alton Bay
 

There was a truck that went through the ice over in Alton the other night. Divers floated it to the surface this morning and then a wrecker truck pulled it out of the lake.

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Nice video, thanks for posting.

Yes, thanks Daily, keep posting! I love it! What a shame for the guy that owns the truck though. That is why I never would go on the ice with a vehicle!

This is why I would never take a vehicle out on the ice, you never know where there's a weak spot or a thin spot.

Ah, that'll buff right out....

by the looks of the tailgate its looks to be an 09-10 Ford, I would guess insurance doesn't cover a dip into the lake

Truck thru ice-Alton
 

Anyone know which diving outfit did the recovery?

It's defintely not a 2009/2010 model. Not that is really matters. I know the current F150 model quite well.....

Did it get stuck in the ice and then sink or did it plummet through and sink immediately?

Smart money says Tom & Dive Winnipesaukee.

Warning
 

First 4x4 through the ice. I see an upcoming torrent of puns....

Dive Winni was involved, but the two guys that went down were from the other side of the lake. Tom was on his way to Bonaire today for a dive trip. No cold water for him this week!

it doesn't matter, it just looked like a newer model
my point was, it hurts more if you are still making payments:eek:

I hope the driver/passengers made it out safe

I think insurance will cover it. At least a few years ago I asked my agent and he said ours does. Still, I wouldn't want to take the chance.

I will reserve comment. :rolleye2:

No I won't.

I'll just say........... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

ice thickness
 

Does anyone know the ice thickness is in the Broads? We were on our snowmobile passing between Jolly and Birch Islands and there was no snow cover and we couldn't tell if the ice was really thin (scary)?

Many insurance policy have an off the road clause, which does not cover you for off the road use, anyone traveling on the ice should check with there insurance agent, some offer an extra side policy.

Really Mr. insurance adjuster I only went through the car wash once,honest!!!!!!:eek:

Were in Alton did this happen?

BTW That is an older Ford F150. The wheels & tsllights tell me that.

This was over off of Echo Point road in Alton Bay.

I put up a photo gallery here.

Thanks for posting the photos. I wonder what that recovery operation Cost the owner ..and any Fines that may be levied. Do fines commence immediately or is there a grace period to get the truck out of the water? NB

I do not know about the costs involved with this happening, but a friend of mines father runs a repair shop and does up to meduim duty recovery. They were called to a truck that had sunk in a pond about 300yards from the road. The truck (brand new, less than a month) was started in the morning by the owner and the parking pin failed, the truck rolled out of the driveway, across the street, down an enbankment and into the pond behind his neighbors house. It took two wreckers and about 5 hours, total bill was just under $5,000. Pictures here http://www.loudongarage.com/gallery/recoveries.shtml It is the December 29, 2004 slide show.

I would have to think with fines and diving costs that that amount would at least double.

Very cool pics,glad nobody was hurt. I remember back in 95 losing my sled in lLake Francis it cost me $1500 to get my sled out and other than Inland Divers it was voluteers that helped. So I think that had to be about 5-10 times that. But I wasn't asessed fines because fish and game wouldn't let us try and get it out due to weather conditions untill the following day and the per day fine wasn't cheap.

I do want to point out that I have never seen this approach by the tow-truck company before.

Usually, if Dive Winni is in charge, the trucks/snowmobiles come out right-side up.

Thats what I was thinking. I'm not in the business but I've seen a number of recoveries. This one seemed a bit of a hack job.

If you listen to the video in the first post, you can hear saying something like, "oohhh, noo, there goes some tools"

Looks like this may be a good dive spot this summer to add to someone's tool collection.

So, did they flip it back over on to its wheels or did they drag it all the way off the ice on its roof?

Maybe they will run "cash for clunkers" again! That truck would be a great candidate.

How scary is that????

I wish whoever took the video and pics had just gone a little further over to the right. I could have seen my house! It was just out of the frame.

nj2nh

Where was it?
 

It looks like it is almost into Peggy's Cove on the Eastern Shore.

Maybe it was looking for Jimmy?
 

Old Ford looking for Jimmy?

Sorry it is cold and I just couldn't resist

Was it a Ranger or Explorer? :D

After it goes for a swim does it really matter if it was dragged?

Thought I've read here before trucks are generally covered if they go through ice but cars are not. Cars really have no business being on the ice however trucks are "recreational" vehicles or something to that effect.

It was an F150.... looking at the pictures....

Now I have seen vehicles brought up before in a much cleaner fashion the this, which appears to have been done through brut force....

Neither. It was a Navigator that failed to locate the Armada.

Sorry, Ropetow, but the truth of the matter is that a Mr. Maserati (a New Yorker currently living in Suburban Daytona) was foolishly chasing a Rabbit down a lakeside road instead of going to the Golf lesson where he should have been. His Focus was an adventurous Expedition, but instead, all this Intrepid Pilot got was a Hummer of a headache.

Peter

license plates
 

Mass plates...nuff said.:D

Why must this happen every year? People are stupid, just STAY OFF THE ICE WITH YOUR CAR...There, that was simple...:D

Not that I'm 100% percent against driving a vehicle on the ice, but I do chuckle when I see a vehicle parked next to one of the bobhouses on Meredith Bay. If you parked that vehicle at the Town Docks lot, it would only be a 50 yard walk to your bobhouse. I realize the ice there is safe enough to drive on, but still...

Years of intense, government-subsidized research has revealed that fully 100% of vehicles that go through the ice are driven on ice.

And that study cost you, the taxpayers, 2million to prove it!

They'll pass it off to the Donor Towns...