Flatbedders... Secure your Load

Northbound I85 in Concord was closed for about 6 hours today as a concrete slab used as a bridge girder fell off a flatbed tractor trailer and fell on a pickup truck pinning one man inside for 2 hours before they could get him out. 2 other passenges had minor injuries. Other tractor trailers were involved as well.

Highway patrol officer estimates the weight of the girder at 80 thousand pounds. Talk about a headache. Man is in serious condition but lucky as hell to be alive. Our prayers are with him and his family.

 

This was straight from the news report so I don't know.

 

by NewsChannel 36 Staff
WCNC.com
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Updated today at 6:06 PM


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- An accident on Interstate 85 near Concord has closed all northbound lanes on Tuesday afternoon, and the highway did not reopen until 5 p.m.
The accident closed all northbound lanes near Popular Tent Road at exit 52.

The accident involved three tractor-trailers and one pickup truck. Emergency crews rescued one man from the car and two other men are being treated at a nearby hospital.
A massive 80,000 pound concrete slab being transported by one of the tractor trailers fell on the truck and the roadway, trapping one man.
At 2:30 p.m., crews opened one lane to begin allowing the vehicles that had been stuck in traffic to get through. It took crews about two-and-a-half hours to remove the concrete and fix the road.

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There's your proof mcfly.

 

The Highway Patrol told WBTV that three men in the pick-up truck were injured, one seriously. A crane from a nearby road construction project was brought in to move the concrete slab out of the roadway.
A concrete slab was seen hanging off the back of one of the flatbed trucks, which crushed the pickup truck.

At least one other tractor trailer appears to have run into the back of the flatbed truck that had a Bobcat on the rear portion.
That flatbed truck then lost the concrete slab -- which slid onto a pick-up truck.
The driver of the pickup was trapped for two hours before he was freed. The two passengers were pulled from the truck relatively quickly.
By 1:15 pm, two patients were taken from the scene by an ambulance and another was loaded into a Med Center Air helicopter.
The airlifted patient -- the driver of the truck -- was in critical condition and was taken to Carolinas Medical Center-Main. The other two men were taken to CMC-Northeast with non-life-threatening injuries.

Crews opened one northbound around 2:30 p.m. to clear the vehicles caught between the last off-ramp and the wreck.
They then closed the interstate between exits 49 - 52 while crews worked to clear the debris.
By 5 p.m., the North Carolina Department of Transportation said all lanes were back open.

 

I wish I new how to post pictures, this was in a construction zone with concrete barriers making the two lanes narrower, a semi rear ended the flatbed truck and that caused the concrete he was carrying to come off, but whats interesting is he also had a bobcat on the rear of the flatbed and it didn't come off even though it was right at the back where the trailer was struck.

I can't imagine what the guy in the pickup thought as he looked over and say that massive load coming at him, if he saw it at all, may have happened too quickly.