A trucker who went missing in rural Oregon for four days, after his GPS led him the wrong way, has been for four days has returned home.
Jacob Cartwright walked 36 miles with no food or water and emerged safely Saturday from a remote region of the state.
The 22-year-old showed up near the town of La Grande, where an intensive search involving aircraft had been taking place since he went missing Tuesday.
Cartwright was being evaluated in an emergency room but appeared OK, said nursing supervisor Danita Thamert at Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande, in eastern Oregon.
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7 comments:
Thanks for that. I get alerts about missing drivers and he was the most recent. Glad he is found and ok.
Good man.
36 miles from home and he was "lost"?????
Anonymous Anonymous said...
36 miles from home and he was "lost"?????
April 30, 2018 at 4:52 PM
some people can go around a corner and become lost. it's not the distance, it's the surroundings.
Rural Oregon has lots of hills and mountains, all covered with tall trees. And at night it's dark, dark, dark.
My GED got me home just like a pigeon.
I think his truck driving days are over, almost as soon as they started. Lost, stuck on the road, 36 miles from home. Yeah, his truck driving career is over at 22 years old. I wouldn't hire him to drive a truck after that. He is an incompetent truck driver, and needs to look for a different line of work.
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