Dump Truck Calamity In Seattle
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by mjd4277, Aug 21, 2019.
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Seattle has some crazy steep roads near downtown.... this isn't OKC. I can see it happening. Plowing into Devner, CO. nope.
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I would hate to have been in hat subway. I knew there was a good reason to not go in them. I have a feeling that his mechanical rouble will be poor brakes, and somebody is going o be in hot water.
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This is basically the original downtown of Seattle. James Street sort of Ts into Yesler Way. Because different people platted the original area, the roads are not square. The Subway the dump truck ran into is on Yesler Way, named after Henry Yesler who owned a mill that the greased logs were skidded down to from the hills above way back in the 1850s.
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I've not yet been in the city itself; only the outskirts--however, I imagine it and Portland have some similarities re: the streets. I just Google mapped the area of the incident and followed James Street back up...that is one step incline alright, for a good half a mile through city blocks back up to about 9th Avenue. (And of course I see many dump trucks on Street View.) Yeah that'd be a hurtpiece for sure to lose some brakes on.
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