Truck rolls over onto car in Nashville.

Sounds like too many trucks are taking ramps a little too fast these days!

 

I am amazed that the family actually survived this accident at all. That driver shoulda known better than to take that ramp at high speed with a load like that. Unfriggin real.

 

Yes, and once again a news organization gets it WRONG!

The reporters say (several times) that the truck was "carrying over 70000 pounds of crushed aluminum cans".

NO! The truck, trailer, and cargo were a combined 76K, not the load by itself! I get so #### tired of this type of reporting, and I e-mailed them to let them know.

Still, the family is lucky to be alive and that driver will probably be looking for employment.

 

You said it there! I have to wonder how some of these reporters managed to graduate high school, let alone college!

Definitely glad the family is OK.

 

I was scratching my head on that one...was wondering if he had a special permit to be
rolling that heavy!!! LMAO Glad you emailed them to set 'em straight there 48 packard.... By the way that was one hell of a car the old 48 packard was

 

I don't question anyone's brain-cell count, but simply the seemingly evaporating desire to "get it right".

I know they've never driven a truck. OK. But where did they get that information? If they got it from law enforcement, and THEY said the same thing, shame on them as well. Or perhaps they misunderstood, which I feel is more likely. But the fact remains that there is a 30,000 pound difference between their report and the facts of the case.

In the grand scheme of the incident, I suppose it is a small thing. After all, the family saw their lives flash before their eyes. And perhaps it's because I'm an ex-broadcaster (DJ/news person of a dozen years). But mistakes like this just get under my skin.

Now, pass the Twinkies!

 

Really.. no kidding, I was a dj for a few years down in the Virgin Islands. Had the late night on the weekends and did drive time Wed-Friday. We prepped our news like you wouldn't believe. The station manager was a news reporter from St. Louis and he made us get it right. If we f'ed up the news he got himself in a right royal snit!!!!

Ah golden sponge cake wonders of science

 

Me and the ex honeymooned in the VI in '86!

My last job was a little mom and pop station...pop would prep the news....manual typewriter on long rolls of AP wire paper. Couldn't spell.

He would have the Senate passing a budget for "3.2 million dollars anally", "the abundance of seadoof", among others.

Small market radio...nothing like it!