well, the taillights are still in good shape....

Oh jesus that is sad! To bad the DOT doesn't do something about those weak bumpers on trailers and force trailer makers to put something under there to keep cars from going under. I think also in the event a driver does pull over on shoulder states should mandate a law that the tandems must be slid back all the way. Screw any bridge laws in affect that would stop everything from ever going under.
 
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JeffP1167 said:
states should mandate a law that the tandems must be slid back all the way. Screw any bridge laws in affect that would stop everything from ever going under.
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I agree with you, seen that kind of accidents too many times.
I dont think it should be "state laws" but all over the continent since a lot of those trailers are traveling all over the placer.

BUT very few knows about the bridge laws, and large (automotive) shippers NEEDS those extra long trailers to increace theyre productivity.
 
The guy is dead, he's still in the car, arm hinging next to seat. Head smacked on the trailer, there's blood on the door under the latch. Gruesome.
 
I get annoyed every time I see someone that's jacked a SUV or pickup truck way up in the air. There's a lot of silly auto rules and regulations, but one sensible one that doesn't exist would be to require people with elevated vehicles to have bumpers at a normal height above the road.

It took a while but I finally saw the guy's arm. Also, about that splotch of blood on the tailer door by the latch....he probably was decapitated.
Wonder why he didn't try to steer rather than hitting the truck straight in the middle?
 
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I get annoyed every time I see someone that's jacked a SUV or pickup truck way up in the air. There's a lot of silly auto rules and regulations, but one sensible one that doesn't exist would be to require people with elevated vehicles to have bumpers at a normal height above the road.

It took a while but I finally saw the guy's arm. Also, about that splotch of blood on the tailer door by the latch....he probably was decapitated.
Wonder why he didn't try to steer rather than hitting the truck straight in the middle?
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There is a bumper height law in MD (at least there was years ago) they kept measuring my buddy's CJ-5
 
About six years ago I had a accident like that on rain slick highways on the 60 freeway out here. Had to stop for traffic and a guy driving a box van rear ended me. He went under and when he finally stopped the base of his windshield was pressed up against the trailer doors.

These bumpers on trailer are nowhere strong enough to withstand impacts at all. The only feasible way to stop this is sliding the tandems back. California has the bridge law setting on a 53 foot that the tandems must be all the way up. I think this like I said is a very stupid law and put to many people at risk. If this accident had the tandems back yes he would have went under a bit but not enough to exceed the length of the hood of that car before he came to a hard stop.

I would have to say that trruck was stopped and the problem with that is when you are very tired you will naturally drive towards tail lights. Being that tired is comparable to being intoxicated. Doubtful that guy felt anything as that looks like he hit it around 60 mph easy.
 
BAD enough with the BIG rigs....

try those damn stupid later model school buses, all the tails up in the air like about 5' off the ground, not a car in hell has a chance....kids or no kids....time to put a stop to that foolishness, and to boot they in city traffic, and so easy for some poor slob to get ass rammed at some damn light or other and killed under one of those stupid things....one of my favorite bitches, I stupid designs brought on by .gov regs.....you KNOW that NO M/E with a ounce of common sense would put a damn bumper 5' in the air on any vehicle.....

so what lawyer drew up THAT crap???

:suicide::stirpot:
 
Speaking of road absurdities, when in the US I noticed rigs with ben-hur era spikes as lug nuts, not sure if it's US only.
If that has a purpose someone got to explain to me.
 
denpo said:
Speaking of road absurdities, when in the US I noticed rigs with ben-hur era spikes as lug nuts, not sure if it's US only.
If that has a purpose someone got to explain to me.
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It's called BLING and you see it for sale at all of the big truck stops. It's nothing but eye candy, at least for truckers it is.... They may even be plastic slip on spikes.

There was a bumper of sorts on the back of that trailer but it obviously was under engineered. They all are that way... go figure...
 
DeeVeeEight said:
denpo said:
Speaking of road absurdities, when in the US I noticed rigs with ben-hur era spikes as lug nuts, not sure if it's US only.
If that has a purpose someone got to explain to me.
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It's called BLING and you see it for sale at all of the big truck stops. It's nothing but eye candy, at least for truckers it is.... They may even be plastic slip on spikes.

There was a bumper of sorts on the back of that trailer but it obviously was under engineered. They all are that way... go figure...
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So what speed do you think the vette would have been going to end up with it's top half ripped off?
 
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OK I'll throw this response into the ring--

We need to add even MORE laws, regulations, expenses to prevent the stupid from doing what stupid are always going to do???? Like driving too fast, not paying attention to road conditions (changing the CD, yapping on a phone), being drunk, whatever. A line of brake lights up ahead---buncha bozos going slower than me---oh shit they're stopping!! (golly, maybe for something like a broke down truck?) in the middle of the road where I'm showing off how fast I can zip through traffic---I'll just swerve onto the shoulder and get past 'em all--'watch this, honey!' "I got traction control and computer steering adjustment and -----)
(and what the fuck is that black thing sticking up at an angle out of the back??? It almost looks like it has 6 fingers....)
Even if the truck had a bumper strong enough to resist that impact, it would only have changed the car's trajectory because of the physics of mass & velocity--up vertically splattering on the back hopefully, but more probably spinning it sideways careening causing 'collateral damge' in all manner of differing ways---but the car occupants would still dead. And who knows who else as well. So then shall we all drive around with 8 foot long collision absorbtion packs on the back of our vehicles like highway crews do now? I think that should become law, dagnabbit!
Yeah if we were mandated to drive (or rather ride in) completley computer operated cars with sensors and radars automatically controlled speeds & spacing, this never would have happened. Hey and that can easily be operated by drone aircraft flying overhead controlling our vehicles, huh?

Wow, but someday, even in our future utopia it will happen again through a combination of errors-----a car mechanic (oops, tech) will hot wire a malfuntioning module which keeps throwing a code 198475 which won't let the customers car excede 25 MPH even on the central traffic computer controlled road rated at 75MPH and then a month later a traffic monitor 'tech' will be reading Bigg Juggs instead of watching his board to notice drone plane C459XBE is blinking a sensor response failure over the highway and cannot automatically slow & divert traffic from the problem signal it picked up from Vehicle 604387ck78e9 which is suffering mechanical failure and about to impede traffic........
 
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JPhil said:
OK I'll throw this response into the ring--

We need to add even MORE laws, regulations, expenses to prevent the stupid from doing what stupid are always going to do???? Like driving too fast, not paying attention to road conditions (changing the CD, yapping on a phone), being drunk, whatever. A line of brake lights up ahead---buncha bozos going slower than me---oh shit they're stopping!! (golly, maybe for something like a broke down truck?) in the middle of the road where I'm showing off how fast I can zip through traffic---I'll just swerve onto the shoulder and get past 'em all--'watch this, honey!' "I got traction control and computer steering adjustment and -----)
(and what the fuck is that black thing sticking up at an angle out of the back??? It almost looks like it has 6 fingers....)
Yeah if we were mandated to drive (or rather ride in) completley computer operated cars with sensors and radars automatically controlled speeds & spacing, this never would have happened. Hey and that can easily be operated by drone aircraft flying overhead controlling our vehicles, huh?

Wow, but someday, even in our future utopia it will happen again through a combination of errors-----a car mechanic (oops, tech) will hot wire a malfuntioning module which keeps throwing a code 198475 which won't let the customers car excede 25 MPH even on the central traffic computer controlled road rated at 75MPH and then a month later a traffic monitor 'tech' will be reading Bigg Juggs instead of watching his board to notice drone plane C459XBE is blinking a sensor response failure over the highway and cannot automatically slow & divert traffic from the problem signal it picked up from Vehicle 604387ck78e9 that he's suffering mechanical failure and about to impede traffic........
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Common sense sounds cheaper to ME.....but I just think ....that's allllllllll.....


:harhar:
 
JPhil said:
OK I'll throw this response into the ring--

We need to add even MORE laws, regulations, expenses to prevent the stupid from doing what stupid are always going to do???? Like driving too fast, not paying attention to road conditions (changing the CD, yapping on a phone), being drunk, whatever. A line of brake lights up ahead---buncha bozos going slower than me---oh shit they're stopping!! (golly, maybe for something like a broke down truck?) in the middle of the road where I'm showing off how fast I can zip through traffic---I'll just swerve onto the shoulder and get past 'em all--'watch this, honey!' "I got traction control and computer steering adjustment and -----)
(and what the fuck is that black thing sticking up at an angle out of the back??? It almost looks like it has 6 fingers....)
Even if the truck had a bumper strong enough to resist that impact, it would only have changed the car's trajectory because of the physics of mass & velocity--up vertically splattering on the back hopefully, but more probably spinning it sideways careening causing 'collateral damge' in all manner of differing ways---but the car occupants would still dead. And who knows who else as well. So then shall we all drive around with 8 foot long collision absorbtion packs on the back of our vehicles like highway crews do now? I think that should become law, dagnabbit!
Yeah if we were mandated to drive (or rather ride in) completley computer operated cars with sensors and radars automatically controlled speeds & spacing, this never would have happened. Hey and that can easily be operated by drone aircraft flying overhead controlling our vehicles, huh?

Wow, but someday, even in our future utopia it will happen again through a combination of errors-----a car mechanic (oops, tech) will hot wire a malfuntioning module which keeps throwing a code 198475 which won't let the customers car excede 25 MPH even on the central traffic computer controlled road rated at 75MPH and then a month later a traffic monitor 'tech' will be reading Bigg Juggs instead of watching his board to notice drone plane C459XBE is blinking a sensor response failure over the highway and cannot automatically slow & divert traffic from the problem signal it picked up from Vehicle 604387ck78e9 which is suffering mechanical failure and about to impede traffic........
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Thank you
 
denpo said:
Speaking of road absurdities, when in the US I noticed rigs with ben-hur era spikes as lug nuts, not sure if it's US only.
If that has a purpose someone got to explain to me.
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Those are just plastic nut covers.
Cosmetic only and zero purpose, it's like wearing a leather band with spikes around the neck.
 
The "bumpers" on the back of those 18 wheel trailers are almost cosmetic. It's 2x2 box iron welded to the back frame with no forward bracing. You could probably bend it with a good kick.. That's about equivalent to a 5mph bumper.

Business always gets a pass on shit like this while the common man needs expensive safety systems built into passenger cars driving up the price and weight, baby seats out the ass, seats for pets, yada yada yada.

Driving in some parts of PA it's downright scarey how many big rigs are on the HWYs.
 
I'm with JPhil. We don't need more laws, GAWD save us from more laws. If you look how far that car is under the truck I think we're just looking at Darwin at his best. Just a couple months ago didn't we have a video of an impromptu drag race where a moron lost it on a perfectly straight road?

Despite the best of the Nanny Staters you can't legislate stupid. Natural Selection deals with that.

Anybody give a yank about the trucker who's already having a bad day only to go home with this on his mind?:bonkers:
 
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