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You Must Be This Tall to Go On This Ride

He remembered the advice “You don’t want to move someone when they’ve been in an accident,” said passerby Todd Smith, but “we didn’t really have a choice.” He and a friend happened by a crash on Red Mountain Pass, just outside Ouray, Colo., at dusk. On that stretch, there’s a sheer canyon wall to the right — and a 400-ft drop-off to the left. Josh Lewis, 75, of Minnesota somehow hit the wall on the right, which ricocheted him to the left — and the car stopped, teetering on the edge of the cliff. Smith and a friend helped Lewis to safety. “A couple more inches and the car could have went over,” Smith said. Lewis was shaken, but didn’t need to go to the hospital. (RC/Durango Herald) ...If the crash doesn’t kill you, the view out the windshield might.