Rock Crashes Through Sunroof and Strikes Man ’s Head at Yosemite

(SAN FRANCISCO) — A man injured in the second massive rockfall in two days at Yosemite was driving out of the national park when rock and rubble broke through the sunroof of his SUV, hitting him in the head, his wife said. Television images show Jim Evans, of Naples, Florida, conscious and his wife holding a jacket around his bloody head. Evans was airlifted to a hospital in Modesto, California, and is expected to survive, Fresno television station KSEE reported. Evans’ wife, Rachel Evans, told KSEE that the couple and two other relatives had ended a three-day visit to Yosemite and were leaving Thursday when the rock slide happened. She said no one else in the car was injured. “We didn’t know what had happened, but it shattered (the glass) and the dust just poured in,” Evans said. “We were trying to outrun it; it was like ‘Go! Let’s go!’ and at the same time my husband reached up and he was like ‘oh, my head, my head’ because it was bleeding profusely and hurting.” The slide came a day after a giant slab of granite plunged from the same formation, killing a British man on a hiking and climbing visit and injuring his wife. The massive new hunk of granite broke off Thursday at the park’s mountaineering mecca of El Capitan, injuring Evans and sending out huge plumes of white dust. “There was so much smoke and debris,” said climber Ryan Sheridan, who had just reached the top of El Capitan w...
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