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By Amelia Robinson, Staff Writer Updated 9:55 AM Monday, March 15, 2010

BUTLER TWP., Montgomery County — Investigators say two men are lucky to be alive after the truck they were riding in landed on two very strong mailboxes just before 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 14.

A white 2001 Ford Ranger was traveling south on Peters Pike when it went off the right side of the road and struck a driveway embankment, said Butler Twp. Sgt. Todd Stanley.

“They went airborne sort of like The Dukes of Hazzard ” he said, noting that the truck rolled in the air before landing nose down on the metal mailboxes and post for 7766 and 7765 Peters Pike.

The left tires came off the truck at impact.

“Those mailboxes held that truck up like it was nothing,” Stanley said. “It was a horrific accident. .”

The boxes, which were barely damaged, broke through the truck’s roof and would have hit the driver, a 24-year-old Butler Twp. man, if the driver had not been ejected into a creek, Stanley said.

A 55-year-old Butler Twp. man, a passenger, had to be freed from the truck.

Both men were taken to Miami Valley hospital with cuts and bruises. The driver also had a back injury, Stanley said.

The accident remains under investigation.

“Alcohol may be a factor,” Stanley said.

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