Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\nStorm slick<\/h2>\n
Tyler, Isaiah and Sanjana Davis live in Southern California, but they have the good judgment to be Broncos fans.<\/p>\n You remember that huge storm that hit last Thursday afternoon. If you were skiing that afternoon you enjoyed new snow on every run.<\/p>\n If you were 32-year-old Tyler Davis you were thinking other things about the snow \u2014 like how difficult it is to learn to drive a big rig through it.<\/p>\n Tyler is learning to drive those big rigs. He had turned the wheel over to his trainer and climbed into the sleeper to rest.<\/p>\n They made it down Vail Pass just fine and had cleared Vail when Dowd Junction\u2019s slick roads caught them, as it does to so many others.<\/p>\n Tyler awoke when he felt the rig start to slide and the trailer start to jackknife. The curtain was drawn between the sleeper and the cab, so he couldn\u2019t see what was happening. But he said he knew.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew what was going on because of the swerving. It almost felt like a giant sled,\u201d Tyler said.<\/p>\n They crashed through the guardrail and careened down the embankment, finally coming to rest beside U.S. Highway 6 in Dowd Junction below.<\/p>\n The tractor stopped, but the trailer did not.<\/p>\n The jackknifed trailer kept coming, wrapping itself around the sleeper where Tyler was trapped, sort of like a giant C-clamp. Emergency crews were on the scene in moments.<\/p>\n \u201cIt took hours to lift him up and pull him out,\u201d Sanjana said.<\/p>\n When he was finally freed, Tyler was taken to the hospital and checked out. Miraculously, nothing was broken, at least nothing of Tyler\u2019s.<\/p>\n The driver, by the way, is OK too.<\/p>\n The truck is pretty busted up, though.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was our son that they took out. Thank you so much for your excellent service. God bless,\u201d Tyler\u2019s father Martin Davis wrote on the Eagle River Fire Protection District\u2019s social media page.<\/p>\n Crews from the Eagle River Fire Protection District responded to the accident, along with first responders from the Eagle County Paramedics, the Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Colorado State Patrol, the Vail Police Department, the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Vail Fire Department.<\/p>\n \u201cThanks again for all that you do!\u201d Tyler\u2019s sister Jessica Davis Cloninger wrote on the Eagle River Fire District\u2019s social media page.<\/p>\n Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 and\u00a0rwyrick@vaildaily.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TylerTruckWreck-vdn-012919-3-244x325.jpg\")
\u201cWhen we got to the bottom, that\u2019s when the trailer crashed into the truck,\u201d Tyler said.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TylerTruckWreck-vdn-012919-2-244x325.jpg\")