An Update On The LA Tunnel Crash (Bizarre!!)

Burky I have to agree with you on that. Unless he was running 200 MPH and it was a solid wall for the guard rail.

Alan

 

In a Saia truck??? Only if the motor was completely unbolted and the truck fell off a cliff.. and there just happend to be a gaurdrail at the bottom.

 

Well, let's see,.................................
Is this another case of shabby reporting?

When a reporter uses phrases like,
"May have been" --- can we also assume it may NOT have been?

The reporter claims to have gotten information from, "investigators CLOSE to the probe."
Really?
HOW "close"?

And THIS one REALLY gets me.,........... "....the spectacle *apparently" slowed traffic."
W H A T?!
Los Angeles traffic actually SLOWED to look at the SPECTACLE?
SHUX!
LA traffic doesn't need an excuse to "apparently" slow down.

But the reporter seems to know the length of the underpass most are calling a "tunnel". 550 feet. But, with the rest of the story being inaccurate or down right lacking reliable information, can the reader REALLY be sure?

The CHP are being "tight-lipped"?
Hmmmmmmmmm
I wonder why?
Apparently the reported didn't (wonder why).

"Authorities FAILED to identify" the Saia Big truck driver.
Hmmmmmmm
I recall OTHER reporters seemed to find that name the CHP "failed" to identify.

And the "Coroner's investigators have declined to identify the dead."

End of story?
Or just the beginning?
With shabby writing like that, it's hard to tell.

And what's this about the Big truck's engine being torn right outta the frame?
HEY!
This is LA!
There are Big truck engines laying all OVER the freeways here. Nothing unusual about that. Perhaps if California would repair the roads here, those Big truck engines won't get shaken out of the frame just driving down our LA freeways.
Ya reckon.


Perhaps they oughta have a reporter report on THAT.
Or the booming scrap business Cal-Trans MIGHT be into. There MIGHT be BIG money in that. It MIGHT really belong to the tax-payers. Folks MIGHT become upset at the thought.
Cal-Trans MIGHT dispute the claim.
They MIGHT be found guilty anyway, and they MIGHT do jail time as a result.
And they MIGHT have to share a cell with a Big truck driver who lost HIS engine in LA.

Know what?
I MIGHT think about becoming a reporter.
This is EASY money.
I wonder though,............ are reporters paid by the word, like Big truck drivers are paid by the mile?
I just MIGHT excel at THAT.

 

Brother, if you got paid by the word, we could both retire off your second editorial. I have never in my life, and I've been around the block once, met someone so good at telling a story, and able to keep it entertaining through all the twists and turns. I tip my hat to you, sir....while I eagerly await another star-spangled story from the road!

 

####. He truly does live in a fantasy world. I wonder if he thinks the trucker saw a pink elephant with fairies flying overhead, caused the truck to swerve into the guardrail, and thus the dominoe effect of the engine coming loose and flying over into the next lane?
That engine must have just been sitting on there with not a weld, or bolt or stick of chewing gum holding it in place. lol

 

On the other hand, the LA Times also had the same article. And Saia implied that they were involved and cooperating with CHP.

Here's the article, which is similar
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-freeway17oct17,1,4194369.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

 

(From the LA Times story)

First, keep in mind these are written by reporters, who generally couldn't care less about anything but how their assigned stories might move them up in the world of journalism. The writers likely know very little about much other than English grammar.

Now, with that in mind, read the quote again. It's possible the engine block did, in fact, "fly" over the guardrail into the northbound freeway lanes...

...what the reporter may have failed to report was that the whole front of the tractor with the engine still rightly connected to the frame, went over the guardrail (or more likely through it), with the rest of the tractor and the trailer -- still fully intact -- on the southbound side, straddling what used to be the guardrail.

Come to think of it, I saw a rear wheel rolling forward yesterday. Heck, I saw hundreds of rear wheels rolling forward yesterday. Now, if I left it at that, some reporters might assume the wheels were 1) detached, rolling freely and 2) rolling the wrong direction. But you know better than that... those wheels were attached to vehicles driving down the road in normal fashion.

I look forward to hearing the truth of the story... the whole truth... and nothing but.

 

Most stories are written with sensationalism in mind.