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How Easy Is It To Lay Over A Rig? Pretty Easy.

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by STexan, Dec 18, 2013.

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  1. Dec 18, 2013 #1
    STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    Out of hours and was researching some other stuff and ran across this video. One tiny distraction is all it takes.

    [video=youtube_share;8fmsmqkKnIE]http://youtu.be/8fmsmqkKnIE[/video]
     
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  3. Dec 18, 2013 #2
    Blind Driver

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    The guard rail did a fine job peeling away :biggrin_25521:
     
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  4. Dec 18, 2013 #3
    UTurn1

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    Not hard at all. From the looks of it he wandered as he took out the guardrail and then the shoulder sucked him on down. Not sure if he hit that sign first, I was replaying trying to see that.
     
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  5. Dec 18, 2013 #4
    Guntoter

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    He was watching you tube videos of truck crashes.
     
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  7. Dec 18, 2013 #5
    Schism

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    Good thing the bus driver was in the right lane and not the left ( passing ) .
    Timing and speed considered he might have been in a pretty bad situation in that left lane
     
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  8. Dec 18, 2013 #6
    baha

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    P/U truck in ft. of rollover truck lost load of steel rolls gutter mat.
     
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  9. Dec 18, 2013 #7
    mkmac

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    The guard rail was the culprit here,by bouncing of to the left it caused the truck to start to jack-knife then roll over. no guard rail no problem.............
     
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  10. Dec 18, 2013 #8
    STexan

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    If he hit the guard rail, then he'd have have hit the soft shoulder grass instead (if no rail) and I suspect the result would be the same. I find it interesting how quickly that truck came to a stop from highway speed what with all the rail posts working to slow it.
     
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  11. Dec 18, 2013 #9
    DsquareD

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    I wonder if he could have kept it upright by not trying to fight it. Could he have steered it onto the frontage road after leaving the main highway?
     
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  12. Dec 18, 2013 #10
    STexan

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    Had to have been a pretty deep ditch or other serious hazard for them to have put a guard rail up, so I'm not so sure he could have navigated through, across and back out.
     
    STexan, Dec 18, 2013
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