Driver of Truck Filled With Chips Is Lost in Woods For Days But Doesn't Eat Any
October 24, 2024
"This was always my fear of him driving trucks.""Oh, the worst fear," Jacob's mother, Natalie, said. "This was always my fear of him driving trucks."
'Something's not right.'Jacob's dad, John Cartwright explained what happened, "He was following his GPS. The GPS actually had him turn onto a logging service road, and when he turned onto that road he thought, 'Something's not right.'" Jacob had accidentally entered the wrong address, and by the time he realized his mistake, he was halfway up a very remote, rugged mountainous location."By the time I started seeing snow, I figured this is not right but I have to find somewhere to turn around," Jacob said. He attempted to turn his rig around, but the 18-wheeler began to slide toward a steep embankment. With the truck now stuck on the snowy road and Jacob's phone having no cell phone signal, some may have found solace in the salty snack food potato chips in the trailer. But not Jacob. After waiting in his vehicle for a day, Jacob realized his only chance at rescue was to walk for help. So he set out armed only with a bag containing his cellphone, three bottles of water and a pocket knife. He didn't even take one single bag of the potato chips from his trailer with him. Not one. Jacob walked in the direction where he'd come from for more than 12 hours a day. At night, he wedged himself between the ground and a log and covered himself with pine needles to try to stay warm.
Search Continues for Missing La Grande Man and OSP is asking for #PublicAssistance
OSP is assisting the Union County Search and Rescue team & Union County SO in locating 22 year old Jacob Aaron CARTWRIGHT, from La Grande. https://t.co/c92M93ObFE pic.twitter.com/wGlDTZIDT2 — Oregon State Police (@ORStatePolice) April 27, 2018
Missing Trucker Rescued by Good Samaritan
On Saturday, four days after becoming lost, Jacob finally emerged from the Oregon wilderness onto an Interstate where he was able to flag down help. A Good Samaritan who recognized him as "the missing trucker" gave Jacob a ride home. Jacob's parents say that Good Samaritan played an important role their son's rescue. The kind stranger "picked him up off the side of the road and carried him into his house," they said. "We're very grateful to him. If it wasn't for him, [Jacob] might not have made it to where he is right now." Jacob's wife wasn't home when he arrived. She was with authorities, trying to get any news on her husband. But imagine her relief when she returned home to find her husband waiting for her! He was in a lot of pain and couldn't get warm, but he was alive and happy to be reunited with his two children and his grateful wife. She shared that she thought he was dead. "You're not getting rid of me that easily!" He replied. She rushed him to the hospital where he received treatment for severe dehydration and possible frostbite. Jacob's boss, Roy A. Henry, shared, "He was so dehydrated that his kidneys stopped functioning," "We went from thinking we were going to have to bury our son to getting our son back," Jacob's father John Cartwright said."We went from thinking we were going to have to bury our son to getting our son back."After his ordeal of walking nearly 36 miles through the mountains, Jacob is now resting and recovering. "This whole time you're going from heartbreak to hope," Natalie said. "Not wanting to have to bury your child and it turns out your child is still alive."
"Thank God!"When asked why the missing trucker Jacob didn't take any of the potato chips with him on his dangerous trek out of the forest, he shared that his moral values wouldn't permit it. He believed that would've been the equivalent to stealing, and Jacob is no thief. "That's worth money," he said, "That's the load I was hauling and I didn't want to damage the property." "That's the way he was raised," Jacob's boss shared, "that [if] stuff's not yours, you don't touch it." Jacob was happy to have the ordeal behind him. "I finally got to see my wife and kids and everything and I was like, 'Thank God!'" he said.
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