Here in Portland, a woman yakking it up on her cell phone while crossing a
bridge tried changing lanes on wet grating. This despite huge signs
telling drivers specifically not to do that because the grating is slippery
when wet. Her SUV started sliding, hit the guardrail at maybe 35-40 pm,
smashed through, and plunged 60 straight down into 55 feet of muddy water.
She escaped the car after it hit bottom and was able to swim to the top,
with only cuts and bruises.

Her insurance is billing her $5k for repairing costs to the grating, plus
whatever the cost of dredging her car off the bottom. She swears she was
not speeding and wasn't distracted. Maybe the guardrail jumped up and bit
her car, then parted so she could drive through. Here's the story--you
decide:

http://www.oregonlive.com/search/ind...oregonian?fpfp