So, the sedan T-boned the semi then got dragged away? Crazy. And lucky driver.
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December 02, 2021, 12:05 PM
slosig
I dunno the road there, but if it is anything like a normal freeway I have three questions:
How did the sedan driver manage to T=bone the truck hard enough to get stuck in that far?
and
How oblivious was the truck driver not to know he was dragging the guy?
Or
Was there some other craziness going on?
Curious…
December 02, 2021, 12:10 PM
old dino
I have driven semi-truck/trailer cross country before ... and don't understand why the driver was not checking his mirrors on a freeway and also not notice the impact by the vehicle into his trailer that clearly was significant.
December 02, 2021, 12:14 PM
P250UA5
That car is deep in there. Lucky the driver was 'ok' Bottom of the trailer looks to be right about where the driver's head should be.
Something slightly similar happened in CA a few years ago, but it was the FR corner of the car stuck on the trailer wheels.
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December 02, 2021, 12:25 PM
Balzé Halzé
I doubt he T-boned the truck. More likely the car was in the Trucker's blind spot, and the car got wedged there when either the driver of the truck or the car changed lanes.
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December 02, 2021, 12:30 PM
nhracecraft
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Originally posted by P250UA5: That car is deep in there. Lucky the driver was 'ok' Bottom of the trailer looks to be right about where the driver's head should be.
^^^You can actually see the driver's head, and that 'driver' trying to get the attention of the passing car!
And NO Way I'd be passing that that truck on the right! WTF, that's 'an accident waiting to happen' right there...
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December 02, 2021, 12:38 PM
radioman
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And NO Way I'd be passing that that truck on the right! WTF, that's 'an accident waiting to happen' right there...
I was thinking the same thing. If that car cuts loose..... or the semi suddenly loses stability.
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December 02, 2021, 01:00 PM
drill sgt
Damn lucky that there was no slower traffic in the lane to the right of the truck that could have dis-lodged the auto as the truck passed the slower vehicle. ......................... drill sgt.
December 02, 2021, 01:15 PM
CoolRich59
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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé: I doubt he T-boned the truck. More likely the car was in the Trucker's blind spot, and the car got wedged there when either the driver of the truck or the car changed lanes.
Agreed.
Based on the signage, this video was taken on northbound 294 near the Cermak Road toll plaza. If memory serves, there is some road construction going on in this area. I wouldn't be surprised if the driver got surprised by a lane closure, tried to get over and ran out of room.
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December 02, 2021, 03:20 PM
BB61
Minor impact. Let me tell you about the time I got hit by a semi on I-15.
I was heading north bound when I hear and felt a big crash. A semi coming up in the middle lane suddenly changed lanes and hit my left side (I later found out he was trying to make the exit coming up and didn’t see me). We locked up for a while, with the semi dragging me down the freeway, before my car broke free and then slid around in front of the semi where we crashed again and he started pushing my car down the freeway sideways with his bumper.
At this point, I could look out my side window and see the grill of the semi just inches away (I still remember a dead butterfly on the grill). Fortunately, he didn’t go over the top or roll me. The investigation afterwords found bolt sized holes matching his bumper in the side of my car. LEO felt like that and a lip on the bumper prevented. me from being rolled or crushed. Paint on the bumpers bolts matching my car confirmed this according to the UHP.
Anyway, after pushing me for what felt like forever, my car broke free and slid around to the driver’s side of the semi where we locked up again. After pulling me backwards down the freeway for a time, I broke free for the final time and started doing 360s down the freeway towards oncoming traffic. Fortunately, we were in a traffic bubble (it was the day before Thanksgiving) so I only hit one other car (it was totaled). That sent me it into a backwards where I spun into the jersey barriers head on. That collision sent me spinning back out into traffic where I finally came to a stop facing everybody coming towards me in the far left lane of traffic.
It was a hit and run. Fortunately, another trucker saw the accident and recognized the fleet line. About two weeks later, UHP caught the driver coming back from a run to CA.
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December 02, 2021, 03:24 PM
architect
Maybe the driver had just watched "Christmas Vacation" and figured, if it worked for Clark Giswold, how tough could it be?
December 02, 2021, 03:24 PM
h2oys
quote:
Originally posted by BB61: Minor impact. Let me tell you about the time I got hit by a semi on I-15.
I was heading north bound when I hear and felt a big crash. A semi coming up in the middle lane suddenly changed lanes and hit my left side (I later found out he was trying to make the exit coming up and didn’t see me). We locked up for a while, with the semi dragging me down the freeway, before my car broke free and then slid around in front of the semi where we crashed again and he started pushing my car down the freeway sideways with his bumper.
At this point, I could look out my side window and see the grill of the semi just inches away (I still remember a dead butterfly on the grill). Fortunately, he didn’t go over the top or roll me. The investigation afterwords found bolt sized holes matching his bumper in the side of my car. LEO felt like that and a lip on the bumper prevented. me from being rolled or crushed. Paint on the bumpers bolts matching my car confirmed this according to the UHP.
Anyway, after pushing me for what felt like forever, my car broke free and slid around to the driver’s side of the semi where we locked up again. After pulling me backwards down the freeway for a time, I broke free for the final time and started doing 360s down the freeway towards oncoming traffic. Fortunately, we were in a traffic bubble (it was the day before Thanksgiving) so I only hit one other car (it was totaled). That sent me it into a backwards where I spun into the jersey barriers head on. That collision sent me spinning back out into traffic where I finally came to a stop facing everybody coming towards me in the far left lane of traffic.
It was a hit and run. Fortunately, another trucker saw the accident and recognized the fleet line. About two weeks later, UHP caught the driver coming back from a run to CA.
Eh gads. I hope you bought a lottery ticket after that.
December 02, 2021, 03:43 PM
HRK
Hector is going to be running 3 Honda Civics with spoon engines. And on top of that he just came into Harry's and he ordered 3 T66 turbos, with NOS, and a Motec system exhaust.
December 02, 2021, 06:26 PM
bdylan
Goodness, BB61. Very descriptive anecdote...scary.
December 02, 2021, 07:38 PM
trapper189
Everybody knows you need a 1976 Pontiac LeMans to complete the Buford T. Justice maneuver.
December 02, 2021, 09:16 PM
old dino
Just read that the black Honda Accord was changing lanes ...
It was a hit and run. Fortunately, another trucker saw the accident and recognized the fleet line. About two weeks later, UHP caught the driver coming back from a run to CA.
What??? a hit and run by a truck? I cannot for the life of me comprehend that.
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December 02, 2021, 10:01 PM
sigcrazy7
We move 125'+ road girders all the time. We frequently get pass-unders, especially when we're stopped at a light and somebody is waiting to pull out from a side street. They'll just drive under the girder. Dangerous as hell, but people won't be bothered to wait.
Here's a video of a girder move. This doesn't show a pass-under, but it does show how people can be tempted. Not so much on this move because we had LE escorts, but some slightly shorter ones aren't always escorted by LE, and people do stupid stuff. BTW, this steercar is built on a 1964 GMC with a DD6v92 two stroke diesel. A real museum piece still hauling the mail.
I've shared this before, but here's a car who changed lanes into my bumper. It shows how easy it is to pit a car with a truck, and how easily the car can be pushed or dragged. When this happed, I actually kept adjusting to keep the car centered. I didn't want it flipping off and going down my right side against the K rail, or out into traffic on the left. I was grossing 80,000lbs on this trip.
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December 03, 2021, 01:25 AM
BB61
quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
quote:
Originally posted by BB61:
It was a hit and run. Fortunately, another trucker saw the accident and recognized the fleet line. About two weeks later, UHP caught the driver coming back from a run to CA.
What??? a hit and run by a truck? I cannot for the life of me comprehend that.
He took off. I don’t know what else to say. I’ve told this story on the forum before but it has been close to 15 years, IIRC, since I last talked about it.
That car is deep in there. Lucky the driver was 'ok'
Let me tell you about the time I got hit by a semi on I-15.