Not a smart move for a guy hauling Haz-Mat.

Similar situation... fortunatly trailer is equipped with EBS (RSS+Jacknifing avoid program)

 

Don't those new trucks all have ABS and traction control?

The OEMs, the safety gurus and the gubbamint would have us believe the technology would have prevented this.

 

At least that driver didn't squeal like a little girl. . .(but it might have been interesting to hear what he had to say, translated into English. . .)

 

YeaH!
A "professional" would scream in a lower voice. :smt034
This Is Your Life, --- Flash-Flash. Blink-Blink.:smt104

And I doubt a "professional" would scream post incident, ---
Only before and during.
To continue screamin' after the fact could be considered
overkill.
Ya reckon.

Break one-nine.
Where's the nearest Big truck truck stop
with a laundry room?

You just might be correct, amigo.
By the time he screamed, "What the hail are you doin'"?!!!! ---:smt091
it should have been obvious.
Better question mighta been,
"What the hail am I gonna do"?!!!!! :smt087

Who's fault was it that he was goin' a bit too fast? :smt112

Just as it's possible to out drive headlights, it's also possible to
out drive the light in the head. :smt115
Was his head in the Big truck's cab?
Or downrange 'bout a quarter mile?
The Smith System says "Aim High".

When operating in such conditions, I ask myself,
"What's the worst that could happen in a situation like this"?
And plan for it.
If nuthin' happens, ---
no harm, no foul.
If sumthin' does happen, ---
at least there'd be a plan.

Oh WaiT!
The Smith System also tells us to
"Plan Ahead".
Anticipate the unexpected.
Or is it
Expect the unanticipated?
I forget.

"His", "guy", "him", ---- Hmmmmmmmm ----
Perhaps you assume the wrong gender.
Let's be fair to the wimmen-folk.
They're just as capable as the male species, and, in this case,
would, no doubt, provide a much better scream. :smt112
Guys don't realize that once the danger has passed, it ain't
necessary to continue screamin'.

I doubt that the damage factor was uppermost in their mind, Big D.:smt087
With objects as Big and heavy as a Big truck, even minimal damage is potentially deadly.
Less dead, or more dead?
Exactly the same,
only different.

Speed Kills, they say.
I say Bovine Excrement!
T'ain't the speed that kills.
Fact.
It's the sudden that kills.

As one's life is flashing by in the mind,
is there enough room/time for mitigatin'?
Unless, ........ pre-mitigatin' can be included with
the pre-tripigatin'.:smt036

How do you know it didn't?
Right-side guardrail damage as opposed to a head-on.
Even if he wasn't aware of it, the downhill bound driver
musta done sumthin' right, :smt045
besides pullin' to it.

I'll tell y'all what, ---
I'd like to read his account of the incident.
Start the first chapter with, .......
MaN!
Y'all ain't gonna believe this
S hip
H igh
I n
T ransit

:smt091 Translated?
Hmmmmmm -----
I'm thinkin' it wouldn't get past the BaD WorD FilteR.
Now, ........ we haveta use our imagination, vividly.
Thank gawd there ain't no imagination filter.
Yet. :smt112

 

I can only speak for myself. I've faced death a number of times, in a number of different circumstances, and if I had not had room/time for mitigatin' I sure would not be here today.

I'm not saying I never needed to pry the seat out of my back side, or change my drawers, but I have never panicked. (Perhaps I should add, "YET.") I can't think of anything more certain to cause death or at least injury.

 

For all of you guys making fun of the driver hitting the guardrail and screaming, unless you've been in a head-on collision, you don't need to comment.

 

Well, I have, and I didn't scream, just desperately tried to evade it. And I AM a girl, lol.

 

Unbelievable. Neither one of them reacted for seconds.

I don't like that road in good conditions. I've seen many stupid moves along there. Add in the fact that people get even more stupid around plows and increased truck traffic there in winter on that road makes it one I will avoid if at all possible.

Good to know the guardrail held up though.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/art-ginter-tells-story-behind-viral-truck-accident-video-1.2520608

 

Totally agree. My first thought was the guy with the camera was hauling!!!!!!!!