Utah Hunter Crawls Miles for Help After Crashing Off Mountain, Breaking Multiple Bones

Utah Hunter Crawls Miles for Help After Crashing Off Mountain, Breaking Multiple Bones


A man crawled for 11 hours after crashing his side-by-side on a hunting trip in Utah’s Uinta Mountains.

Jacob Schmitt was deer hunting on July 20 and driving up a treacherous grade when his utility vehicle tipped over, KSL-TV in Utah reported Wednesday.

“Immediately, I realized it was going over like a capsizing ship,” Schmitt told KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City. “The machine flipped probably 15-20 times by the end of it, but I would say best of my recollection, probably the second or third flip is when it kind of sort of rag-dolled me out.”

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His dog, a 6-year-old German short-hair pointer named Buddy, was in a kennel in the back of the UTV.

“When I came to and stuff and started to do

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