MILW: DOT camera captures semi overturning in interchange tunnel this AM

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by c64basic, Aug 5, 2014.

  1. 201

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    That's true, however, if you knew this curve, it's just engineered all wrong, and it's brand new. The speed coming up to the curve is 55, then you go into this tunnel, which is probably a 35 mph curve,(especially with a loaded truck) it's slightly downhill, and banked the wrong way, and dark. I'm not defending the roundheads that roll their trucks over, but the millions spent on new interchange that will have problems for years to come.
     
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  3. Semi Crazy

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    Latest one looks like too much speed and shifting load. Notice the rear of the container is what pulls the rest of the truck over. I wonder what was inside.

    The earlier one semi linked is driver inattention. He kept going straight into the curve and jerked the wheel too hard and too late.
     
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