Lockheed Test Vehicle Flips Carrying News 10 Crew

A Lockheed Martin test vehicle carrying a News 10 Now reporter and photographer as well as a Lockheed Employee flips over during a test drive.

Fox 40's Sarah Blazonis was there and witnessed the crash.
Sarah give me a play-by-play of what you saw.

"Jessica, Lockheed Martin was celebrating 50,000 miles of testing on its new joint light tactical vehicles by letting members of the local media test drive the all-terrain vehicles.

A news 10 Now reporter was driving down a hill on the test course, and while making a turn at the bottom of that hill, the vehicle flipped over and landed on its side.

The three people inside got out safely, but all were taken to Wilson Hospital to treat cuts and scrapes.

Lockheed says none of the fourJLTV prototypes has ever flipped before.

FOX 40 did get in touch with a Lockheed spokesperson who issued this very vague statement," said FOX 40 Reporter Sarah Blazonis.

"We have initiated an incident review as the result of an event today involving one of our Joing Light Tactical Vehicle prototypes. There were three passengers, all who were trasnported to a local hospital for evaluation," said Lockheed spokesperson Jeff Brown.

"As mentioned earlier, everyone is doing fine after that crash.

Lockheed developed those JLTV's to try to win a contract with the Army and Marines that could be worth up to 75 billion dollars.

We'll have more on the vehicles coming up on FOX 40 news at 10.
Jessica?" said FOX 40 Reporter Sarah Blazonis.

So tell me Sarah, when you drove the JLTV , did it feel unstable at any point while you were driving it?

"At one point when i was driving down that same hill, the Lockheed driver riding with us did warn me to slow down...but it never seemed as if the vehicle was in any danger of flipping over," said FOX 40 Reporter Sarah Blazonis.

Thank you Sarah for that live report, I'm thankful you're okay, and on behalf of FOX 40 News, we're all thankful the News 10 Now team and the Lockheed employee were not seriously injured in the crash.

We wish them a speedy recovery from the incident.

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[cpchehaibar]

How high is its gravity center?

[Realizalize]

@letour32rr ...., then again , if you can`t pull it off...., don`t simply don`t ....let it be.

[letour32rr]

uparmor a 2CV, lift it to have the ground clearance to clear obsicles off road, install a diesel engine strong enough to haul more than 8000 additional pounds, and put an armored turret with machine gun on the roof, then see if you can't flip it.....

[letour32rr]

Leave it to the media to screw up yet another thing related to the military. As one who is in the army and has driven military vehicles, you can't drive it like a mini cooper. Since a reporter was driving, he most likely cut the wheel hard just like he can with his personal car and flipped it. User error, no fault of Lockheed.

[asmith1583]

Good thing the Army has dropped their requirement for the JLTV and this Lockheed junk will never go to our troops. Good job to OshKosh on winning the contract for the new M-ATV vehicles currently in use by the USMC in Afghanistan!

[BordWork]

LOL... a big improvement alright...

[18thebear]

"we need to know what it can and cannot do" - apparently, it can't be driven by reporters...

[bujoun76]

It was top heavy.

[robbkou]

ooops

[Realizalize]

back than they didn`t have a computer

or modern material and knowledge

, yet the no-flip-over car was real.

to build anything, 40 yrs later, without the no-flip-option, is imbecile, that is my point.