Another rear end fatality crash in the Nashville area

0430 am Gotta know when to take a nap

 

I'm curious to know what year that truck was. I'm betting a newer with the emissions def on it. My point is, this emissions equipment is killing us. I'm hearing a lot about trucks catching fire all of a sudden.

Just a thought. Blessings on that family.

 

You're certainly not the first one on the forum to voice this thought! I wonder what it is going to take, to get an actual "study" on this, so we really have an idea. (A study that is NOT funded by any special interest group.)

 

Someone wrote there have always been truck fires. But what I'm seeing, are fires after collision. Almost every article about a late model truck collision, fire is inevitable .

 

I'm more interested in the make/model/year. We can be certain both trucks are probably 2017 epa complaint engines as most fleet trucks on the road today that are less then 5 years old are. But are we dealing with detroits, paccar, volvo, what? I suspect that if due diligence is done in researching these fiery crashes, one will see one make/model that seems to be more susceptible than most others. My guess is Freightliners in the 2014-2015 range will make up more then 60% of these fiery crashes which is probably higher than the position they occupy on North American roads today.

 

It sure messed up traffic yesterday. I seen the back up on both sides of 65 on the TDOT site before leaving work yesterday morning. I work in KY in Franklin but live in Nashville work 12 hour nights. Good thing last night was my night off as they didn't open the section back up until after 8pm central time. So instead of getting home in a hour yesterday morning it took me little over an hour and a half as I took 109 on over to 40. Then I got into the 40 morning rush hour mess, of people trying to get to work while I was trying to get home after working 12 hours. Left work shortly after 5:30am and got home at 1/4 after 7 in the morning because of that mess.

 

It's called crashville for a reason.

I believe it might be possible for a private web host to be brought up by those with resources and begin to gather crash to fire information nationwide.

In my day you crashed into something you did not burn. Now every other truck or two out of three burn with that emissions stuff going on...

The only saving grace in fire is your nerve endings are destroyed in about 25 seconds. The problem is should you survive, those nerves are going to hurt as they regenerate.