4 Die In Fiery "Mud-Bogging" Accident

2 Small Children Among Dead As SUV Slams Into Trees, Explodes

(AP)  A sport utility vehicle speeding down a muddy road slammed into trees and exploded, killing four people, including two children, and injuring two others, authorities said.

Investigators believe alcohol, recent rain and reckless driving may have been factors in Friday night's crash of the Ford Bronco, which burned completely, state Trooper J.T. McMillan said.

"They were out there, playing around, mud-bogging on the dirt road," McMillan said. "They got stuck in the dirt and were pulled out by a dump truck. They sped off down the road and the driver struck two trees."

Mud bogging is an off-road motor sport in which drivers try to go as far as possible through a mud hole without bogging down.

The SUV was traveling around 70 mph at impact, and the occupants weren't wearing seat belts, he said.

Authorities say the deceased victims are Susanna Guffey, 24, who was driving the Ford Bronco; Christina Caldwell, 36; Guffey's 2-year-old son, Lucas Ross; and Zoe Jayde Flick, 4.

Guffey's four-year-old son, Brody, sustained minor injuries in the Friday night accident and was later released from Sylvan Grove Hospital in nearby Jackson.

Another passenger, Tammy Flick - the mother of Zoe - remains in stable condition at Atlanta Medical Center with a broken leg.

Neither is believed to have life-threatening injuries.

Griffin is about 37 miles south of Atlanta.

[omega39-2009]

What kind of Idiot would take their little kids along for something like this?

[scottyusa]

When you are going to go do something dangerous you don''t take the kids along. What stupidity.

[oeangus]

What kind of Idiot would take their little kids along for something like this?

...

A dead one.

[Krazcarl]

Raising caine behind the wheel the first lesson of no no''s we''ve all lost friends that way...my respect to the faimly,

[excoachken]

Good ol'' Girls just wanna have fun.

[hungry1968]

The driver should be posthumously charged and convicted of manslaughter, and the other adults in the vehicle as accomplices.

[usayesterday]

The driver should be posthumously charged and convicted of manslaughter, and the other adults in the vehicle as accomplices.

Posted by hungry1968 at 09:21 AM : Dec 30, 2007
..........

No need to worry about that hungry...

...the mother, Susanna Guffey, is one of the dead.

A note to Brody (her injured son)...

...you may not understand this, if ever, but God did you a favor. You mother, arrogant and clearly irresponsible, would not have been a good role model for you... let alone a good "mother".

I sympathize with your loss, but mostly, I hope you eventually find peace. But mostly, I hope you find some responsible people who are willing and able to care for you as a REAL PARENT should (regardless of the blood relation).

[Krazcarl]

usa yesterday...you are a total tool put down a dead woman that you never knew, may your hiny fry in haties.

[cyberdjs4]

"Good ol'''' Girls just wanna have fun."
---------------------------
And now they, and their kids, are dead.
I hope it was worth it.

[slim1h2o]

A sport utility vehicle speeding down a muddy road slammed into trees and exploded,

Well, that was your 2nd mistake, the 1st was packing up the kids, and including them in on your little ride.

What?,,,couldn''t find a babysitter?

[chad55555]

People do such dumb things and others have to pay the price,the driver of this SUV had no respect for their life or others.A lot like sending troops into a country that had no WMD''s, wasting money and sending the country into a depression,just you don''t put yourself in danger in this case and you keep all your money.
MY HEART GOES OUT TO THIS FAMILY,THE DRIVER DID A STUPID thing as we all do at one time or another,just in this case it killed loved ones.The driver put too much faith in the vehicle or had little experence. I NOTICED BY THE COMMENTS THERE ARE A LOT OF BACK SEAT DRIVERS,SHOULD HAVE, COULD HAVE,WOULD HAVE IS LIKE TURNING BACK TIME, YOU CAN:T.

[feddupp]

WOW! You start out the day just intending to "have a little fun," and end up with lives irreparably lost and changed.
Just goes to show that every decision we make has consequences. And, saddest of all, when they impact our children''s lives too.
My condolences and prayers go out to the deceaseds'' families and survivors of this horrible tragedy.

[slim1h2o]

Just don''''t get me started.
posted by psy_war,

And you,, me. According to your posts, the only people having babies, live in trailer parks. ROFLMAO!

And how do you explain these rampages going on in the "Burbs",, and else where?

You need to learn where babies come from..LOL

[Krazcarl]

psy-war... your a cross dressing idiotv now everyone knows...

[lesleykay55]

Follow up to psy_war: obviously another person who prefers not to confuse the facts with the misinformation, disinformation and flat out lies distributed by the mainstream media as flunkies for the liberal democrats. Take a good hard look at what the dems have done since taking control in the last election. Zip! And I bet you and Chad55555 cashed those tax rebate checks you received as a result of the George W. Bush administration. Now I know what your log on name means...is there any more room in that psych ward for Chad?

[jjarden]

Trailer Trash shouldn''t be allowed to have children. Mark my words...because there are so many stupid and irresponsible parents out there, at some point in our lifetime people will be required to be "Screened and Licensed" before they are allowed to have children.

[omega39-2009]

I NOTICED BY THE COMMENTS THERE ARE A LOT OF BACK SEAT DRIVERS,SHOULD HAVE, COULD HAVE,WOULD HAVE IS LIKE TURNING BACK TIME, YOU CAN:T.
Posted by chad55555

Most of the comments I have read question the intelligence of the genius that put her toddlers in a SUV, didn''t bother to strap/car seat them in, did a little drinking and then decided to slide around in the mud at 70 MPH. That''s not "oops, I made a mistake" , that''s brazen carelessness. It really is to bad that the driver couldn''t have survived so that she could have witnessed first hand the devastation she wrought and as another poster suggested, be brought up on charges.

[watcher269-2009]

With all the News out there - How in the Fu*k does this make headlines? Showing that Rednecks Drink and Get Stupid? Just look at ''W'' - Stupid, Drunk Fu*cking Redneck that breaks everything he comes in contact with because he''s Drunk all the time.

Please Post REAL news!

[djrose58]

where you live or how much cash you make doesn''t determine your parenting skills....look at Britney...or the Mendez Brothers..... the list is just as long for high dollar stupid parents as it is for low.....A good spanking never hurt any kid...We raised 5 boy''s in a 2 bedroom home...with love & disipline...1 is in the Army who now is in Afganistan, 1 in the Marines lost his leg in Iraq, 1 in the Navy on the USS Reagan, 1 a contractor and 1 in College...put that in your pipe & smoke it....

[realpatriot1]

lesleykay55,

I cashed in my $300 check from Bush(it was my money)-I would''ve much preferred the permanent tax break given to those making over $200,000 annually. If the wealthy willgive back their tac cut I''ll gladly give back that lousy $300!

The Democrats passed quite a bit of legislation, but since Bush found his veto pen not much was enacted. They still got more done in 1 year than the GOp got done in 12.

Regarding Sadaam, sarin gas goes back to WW1, it''s as primitive as you can get. Everyone knows he was developing WMD before but there was no evidence that it was ongoing. Bush lied and sent us to war on a lie.

We know he had WMD before because we were one of his suppliers when he was fighting Iran. The Chinese were helping him to develop XV tanks back in the 1990s but pulled out of the project because of the Bioweapons treaty.

XV is 100 times more deadly than Sarin gas and is processed from anthrax. The antrax attack on Congressional Democrats by other Americans was a potentially greater bio attack than any Sadaam launched, even though no one died. It wasn''t Democrats or Jihadists that did that, it was elements of our own government who had access to anthrax.

[keithle1]

White trash in action. Stupid people are breeding. Why would anyone think having a 2-year-old & 4-year-old in the SUV was a good thing?

Please stop breeding, idiots of all colors.

[keithle1]

They don''t change their behavior when they have kids. Mom & Dad keep on doing the same, ridiculous & risky things they did when they were still single. Having kids is no big deal to them. They''re still kids themselves. These little kids would have been safer with a family of monkeys.

[nothappyatall]

Another Darwin award! Well, at least this line won''t go far now- stupidity is inherited.

[mediabrat60]

To psy_war; you obviously haven''t been to any City Utah, where children are a staple in most families and run loose like wild animals, young children under the age of 14, until midnite unsupervised!
I have to think it started here in Cedar City and slowly spread to every where USA.
But then again, what the south and Utah have in common is MUCH inner breeding, which we all know to be scientific fact leads to mental retardation and instability.
There you have it.

[lesleykay55]

To realpatriot1:
It matters little if Sarin gas goes back to WW1 or the Crusades...it is still a WMD. It can still kill large numbers of people. Others might be stronger but dead is still dead, no such thing as a little dead! If a person inclined to do that has done it even once you can''t dismiss that as a single act of a madman. Regarding your check and the weathly try to remember that we need the wealthy, many of whom are major employers to keep people employed. If you don''t give them tax breaks they can''t keep as many people employed. Do the math; what is better a few rich folks paying some taxes or thousands of people at various levels of income paying to keep not just the Feds but local governments and infrastructures running. You want to talk about lies, it is still amazing to me that so many people have forgotten how that disgusting pig Clinton shook his finger in our faces and lied...real lies. He has never repented for that and I am so glad he was impeached. He deserved it. Dishonesty runs in that marriage of course; while with the Rose Law Firm Hillary Rotten Clinton was guilty of insider trading but got away with it.

[Krazcarl]

We''ve all done dumb things when were young but this is really dumb....Respect to the faimily,,,

[lesleykay55]

This banter has been fun. I am still happy to live in a country which allows me to have my opinion and all of you can also have my opinion! Just kidding. I must exit {stage right of course!} because it is Football time and I can''t miss any of it. To the Pats...congrats on 16-0...amazing. To My Beloved Redskins...Beat the Cowboys! RIP Sean. We miss you.

[linfinster]

...A good spanking never hurt any kid...

Posted by djrose58 at 12:10 PM

So true, when done correctly. Sadly people have lost the skill to parent a child properly and ANYONE who says that spanking is not a useful tool is sadly lacking.

Of course that is off topic to the actual article. What a sad ending for those kids and for the one who survived, I hope he has family to love him though this horrible time!

[keithle1]

Getting killed doing dumb things is really dumb. So is risking the lives of innocent little kids. Try to act like a mother/father instead of like a drunken frat boy.

[toolmangler-2009]

but no ways does justice call for DEATH for stupidity.
Posted by ***** at 12:14 AM : Dec 30, 2007

Depends on your definition of ''''justice''''! In Darwinism, that is the justice that ''''stupidity'''' deserves.

[tibu987]

Hillbilly excitement.
How sad.

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by lesleykay55 at 01:13 PM : Dec 30, 2007


GO! DALLAS!!!!!! washington who?

[toolmangler-2009]

Hillbilly is ''not'' a pseudonym for stupid,
Stupidity is a human condition that may or may not be inherited.

[lesleykay55]

From THE REAL LesleyKay55:

GO REDSKINS...BEAT the cowboys...aka the cowpokes, the cowchips! You get the drift...

[slim1h2o]

GO! DALLAS!!!!!! washington who?

Posted by ToolMangler at 01:53 PM : Dec 30, 2007

Glad you are a Dallas fan! But I don''t think they can beat the Pats, in the "Super Bowl"

[Krazcarl]

How did this story of death adults and children turn into a coach potatoe football rally sports are for children, when I hung my gear I hung it up I don''t play glory days or care who wins what.

[keithle1]

Keep the sports stuff on the sports page, people.

It''s fate who you get as a mother. Luck of the draw. Glad I lucked out & didn''t get an idiot like this woman who not only killed herself but another adult & someone else''s child. And for what?

"Let''s go, mud-bogging! Yee hah!"

[sgtrds]

We used to go mud running (as we called it in Michigan) all of the time, but never with kids in the 4X! Always on private property and always a little drunk (well......really drunk sometimes....and occasionally semi-nude), but never, ever with kids in the 4X!!!

[slim1h2o]

How did this story of death adults and children turn into a coach potatoe football rally sports are for children, when I hung my gear I hung it up I don''''t play glory days or care who wins what.

Posted by crzmeat at 02:47 PM : Dec 30, 2007

I never played,,,,I was too small. Never the less,,,,I enjoy the game.

BTW,,Mud boggin,,is a sport!

[jetranger7]

Just a Very, Very badd decision was made to even be doing that, and especially with those kids in the back ! Leave the kids at the sitters while you go do dumb things, don''t risk their lives or anyone elses !!! Geshhhhh !!!

[rowdytexan2]

My condolences to the families who loved these victims.

[iceman_1960]

A terrible tragedy.


[And thank goodness seven_pesos isn"t around to say something nasty about the South]

[iceman_1960]

"Investigators believe alcohol, recent rain and reckless driving may have been factors in Friday night''s crash of the Ford Bronco, which burned completely, state Trooper J.T. McMillan said."

Getting drunk and racing down a muddy road.

My goodness.

"The Dukes of Hazzard" should never have been allowed on TV.

Shows like that just give impressionable young folks some bad real ideas.

[iceman_1960]

"some bad real ideas"

...And some real bad ones.

[iceman_1960]

"Mud bogging is an off-road motor sport in which drivers try to go as far as possible through a mud hole without bogging down."

Deadly quagmires never come to any good.

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 06:25 PM : Dec 30, 2007


I don''t think seatbelts would have helped much. They hit a tree at 70 mph and burst into flames immediatly.

They might have been conscious when they started to burn though and who knows, maybe they might have lived long enough to get out of the vehicle, maybe?

[toolmangler-2009]

Southern gene pool cleanser = alcohol + automobiles.
Think about it, Crackers.
Posted by FlangeSqueal at 06:36 PM : Dec 30, 2007


Does that mean that yam dankees do it differently? Like kill your families before they can pollute society?

[vittoria1]

Sounds like a Darwin Award to me. Unfortunately, small children who were given no say in the matter died or were injured in this idiotic stunt. How very edifying.

[toolmangler-2009]

You are bobbing and weaving well, but I have you in the corner,

Pensylvania, West Virginia, New England are yankee country, (grin)

[usayesterday]

A terrible tragedy.


[And thank goodness seven_pesos isn"t around to say something nasty about the South]

Posted by Iceman_1960 at 06:07 PM : Dec 30, 2007
................

Southern drivers never saw a tree or a wall they didn''t like...

...just ask Dale Earnhardt!

Inbreds, reborns, phony Christian creeps....

...and really krappy drivers...

...that''s the South for you folks!

(In tribute to the absent "Seven_Pesos")

Sorry Iceman... you tempted me! :-)