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4 dead in 7 vehicle pile up

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by rearview, May 11, 2017.

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  1. May 11, 2017 #1
    rearview

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    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/4-dead-7-vehicle-crash-100350829.html

    Four people are dead and two others are in hospital with serious injuries after a seven-vehicle collision on Highway 401 east of Kingston early Thursday.

    The crash happened at around 1:30 a.m. and involved four tractor-trailers, a commercial truck and two cars.

    The OPP say one of the cars became fully engulfed in flames and all four people in that car were pronounced dead at the scene.

    Westbound Highway 401 was closed west of the exit for Joyceville Road as police complete their investigation but one lane reopened later Thursday afternoon.
     
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  3. May 11, 2017 #2
    joesmoothdog

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    Clearly, according to the comments, a truck driver was at fault.
     
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  4. May 11, 2017 #3
    x1Heavy

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    That website is crap. Trying to get the whole thing loaded seems like the entire internet needs downloading.

    Mobile.. SMH. Im running a desktop here. If I have trouble I cannot imagine you mobile users.
     
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  5. May 11, 2017 #4
    Doublewiggle32

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    Yeah that comment section is pretty rough! One guy said our ugly monstrosities should be banned from highways... I think my truck looks pretty cool, and he must not realize how long shipping would take if we couldn't use highways.
     
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  7. May 11, 2017 #5
    rearview

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  8. May 11, 2017 #6
    Dapperdann

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    F-kin eskimos don't know how to drive
     
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  9. May 11, 2017 #7
    tinytim

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    1:30 AM, 7 vehicles involved, 5 of them in the 'capable' hands of 'professionals'.

    No words.

    SMH
     
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  10. May 11, 2017 #8
    HalpinUout

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    Works for me.
     
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  11. May 11, 2017 #9
    x1Heavy

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  12. May 11, 2017 #10
    x1Heavy

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    The video in the better website showed what appeared to be a delivery panel truck. The drive shaft looks and shows signs of digging into the roadway vaulting the truck up and over. Everything else must have come apart at that point.

    Vehicles that crash generally do not lose the shaft, unless the shaft itself becomes the cause of same.

    I'll have to think things over. This mess is too big to puzzle out, What a shame.
     
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