Dashcam: Shaunee Tractor wreck.. ugly

That's what he actually stated to the people on the scene..he just had axle work done..

 

Hello Mr Lawyer!!!!!

Saw that video yesterday. Scared the crap outta me. Amazing how quickly it happened.
Even scarier is the fact it looks like a Mack, which is what I drive.

 

What made it so obvious?

 

Not enough info. Clearly had the hammer down, and possibly overloaded ( was that coal he was hauling?) and it may have been a mechanical problem, how would you know now, all twisted up. Looks to me he was steering with his knees and and the bump yanked the wheel around. I'm sorry. I drove an R model Mack and hit lots of bumps that almost jerked the wheel out of my hands. Driver error.

 

This Daily Mail article about the accident quoted the driver as saying that it "was not a blown tire or passing vehicle" that caused the wreck.

While the recent axle work may have been the cause of the accident and making the driver feel that the back of the trailer fell off, as seen in the aftermath pictures, would that have caused the sudden dip on the passenger side steer when you hear what sounds like a blown tire? I question whether a sudden drag on the trailer end would cause that dip down and obvious pull to the right.

I'm far more inclined to think that this is a classic steer tire blowout situation. You hear the bang of the blowing passenger side steer and a sudden dip of the right front of the vehicle as it also starts pulling to the right. In this case I think the driver corrected the pull by steering hard left, but made the fatal error of hitting the brakes to slow down quickly. By braking and pulling hard left he threw all the weight onto that steer rim and then it yanked hard left and started throwing him over.

Here's an excellent video explaining how to handle steer tire blowouts, something I think every driver should watch and embed in your memory. Your first instinct should be to floor it while pulling the steering wheel away from the dive. Only after flooring it and making initial recovery should you begin gradually slowing down.

How to handle a steer tire blowout

 

Man I am glad some of you guys aren't investigators! Have you ever heard a big rig tire blow!? It is a LOT louder than that! And why would anyone think he was speeding. That is what 55 to 70 looks like on a camera.

Crazy to just see him walk out like a boss though!

 

I've never had a steer go, but I have had a few drives and trailer tires go. Some go off like a hand grenade, some are so quiet you wonder if it really was a blown tire. I had an outside trailer tire that had a sidewall patch go so softly I would never have known if I wasn't listening to music and didn't have the window open. It was still hissing air when I stopped.

The sound just before the front right dips sounds like a blown tire from my experience.

 

Come to think of it I did have one quietly go and actually give me time to pull over somewhere safe. But it didn't drop like that.....I just heard it hissing at a stop sign....it was a tear in the sidewall..

 

if he was speeding he would had pass that white mini van in the beginning. Also the black toyota camry got up to speed right next to this steer, so pretty sure he wasn't speeding

 

Also, if a tire had blown would that not have been in the story about it?