By . Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 01:46 EST, 7 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:53 EST, 7 December 2013 . Sometimes an owner's manual is not enough. Oregon State Police say that's what a 58-year-old man learned when he tried to drive a 50-ton battle tank up a steep grade near the coastal town of Gold Beach. The Oregonian reports that the 1969 Chieftain had been purchased by a local resident, but a truck driver transporting the tank was unable to climb the grade. So he unloaded it at a turnout along U.S. Highway 101. Dangerous: Jeffrey Glossop was trying to move the vintage tank up a steep hill when it suddenly slipped out of gear and rolled downhill across a major thoroughfare near Gold Beach, Oregon . Oops: After the first crash, Glossop gave it another try to get it up the steep incline, but the tank rolled backward again through another guardrail and down an embankment . The owner's caretaker, Jeffrey Glossop of Pistol River, decided he could get the tank up the hill. State Police Lt. Gregg Hastings notes that Glossop had the operator's manual. But Hastings says the tank slipped out of gear and rolled back down across the busy highway, crashing through a guardrail. Glossop gave it another try, and the tank it rolled backward again through another guardrail and down an embankment. Glossop was cited for reckless driving and first-degree criminal mischief. Hastings says the tank is fine.
Jeffrey Glossop, 58, of Pistol River tried to drive the 1969 Chieftain up a steep hill near the coastal town of Gold Beach, Oregon .
The tank slipped out of gear and rolled back down across the busy highway, crashing through a guardrail .
When he tried to do it again, the tank rolled down the hill and crashed into a different guardrail .
By . Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 01:46 EST, 7 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:53 EST, 7 December 2013 . Sometimes an owner's manual is not enough. Oregon State Police say that's what a 58-year-old man learned when he tried to drive a 50-ton battle tank up a steep grade near the coastal town of Gold Beach. The Oregonian reports that the 1969 Chieftain had been purchased by a local resident, but a truck driver transporting the tank was unable to climb the grade. So he unloaded it at a turnout along U.S. Highway 101. Dangerous: Jeffrey Glossop was trying to move the vintage tank up a steep hill when it suddenly slipped out of gear and rolled downhill across a major thoroughfare near Gold Beach, Oregon . Oops: After the first crash, Glossop gave it another try to get it up the steep incline, but the tank rolled backward again through another guardrail and down an embankment . The owner's caretaker, Jeffrey Glossop of Pistol River, decided he could get the tank up the hill. State Police Lt. Gregg Hastings notes that Glossop had the operator's manual. But Hastings says the tank slipped out of gear and rolled back down across the busy highway, crashing through a guardrail. Glossop gave it another try, and the tank it rolled backward again through another guardrail and down an embankment. Glossop was cited for reckless driving and first-degree criminal mischief. Hastings says the tank is fine.
man learned when he tried to drive a 50-ton battle tank up a steep grade near the coastal town of Gold Beach. The Oregonian reports that vintage tank up a steep hill when it suddenly the tank rolled backward again through another caretaker, Jeffrey Glossop of Pistol River, slipped out of gear and rolled back down across the busy highway, crashing through a guardrail.