Weird Road Accidents
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10-18-2011, 08:56 PM
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However.... a 20 ton runaway water wagon tends to make you think deeply about topography and physics.
It wasn't an isolated incident, either. The uphill neighbor's Jeep Wrangler popped out of gear once and rolled on down. It flipped and smashed into a tree across the street.
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10-18-2011, 09:36 PM
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I saw a Peterbuilt slam into an old john deere tractor pulling a trailer full of apples. It flipped the john deere and threw the guy like 50ft into a field. The old man farmer stood up, brushed himself off, and said "Jesus Christ!" lol.
There were apples everywhere. I couldn't believe that he didn't have a scratch on him.
Growing up, we lived in a house at the bottom of a huge hill. (probably 400yrds to the top)
The town's water plant was between our house and the top of this hill. One day they were pulling a 4,000gal tank trailer full of water up the hill and it came unhooked from the truck at the top. It came down backwards like a bat out of hell. It went through my parent's driveway (right between their cars!), out the bottom end of our driveway, back onto the road, and then slammed into a bridge just past our house. It flipped and ended up in the river. LOL..
It was unbelievable.
I saw a Peterbuilt slam into an old john deere tractor pulling a trailer full of apples. It flipped the john deere and threw the guy like 50ft into a field. The old man farmer stood up, brushed himself off, and said "Jesus Christ!" lol.
There were apples everywhere. I couldn't believe that he didn't have a scratch on him.
Growing up, we lived in a house at the bottom of a huge hill. (probably 400yrds to the top)
The town's water plant was between our house and the top of this hill. One day they were pulling a 4,000gal tank trailer full of water up the hill and it came unhooked from the truck at the top. It came down backwards like a bat out of hell. It went through my parent's driveway (right between their cars!), out the bottom end of our driveway, back onto the road, and then slammed into a bridge just past our house. It flipped and ended up in the river. LOL..
It was unbelievable.
anddddd Pics or it didn't happen
bring on the Panda.
#13
10-20-2011, 01:35 PM
Don`t know all the words so I have to be a little creative here, so bare with me...
Here`s one that happened right next to my mums house. Laughed my **** off when it happened, as anyone with a half of a brain saw it coming any second now...
Scene: Wintertime, about -5c, it`s been really windy all last night, so the blizzarding wind and loose snow has mirror-polished the icy road. A long straight where my mum`s house is in the middle, after that a sharp left turn that tilts to the center. the road goes to the town in our end of the straight and to the rural area on the bend-end.
An old mid-eighties mint-green "grandpa"-escort comes to the turn from the rural area, cutting too in a bit, front corner hits the snow bank on the inside curve, spinning the car butt-first on the inside of the curve so, that it`s rear end bites the bank, so it can`t get free on it`s own. After the turn, there`s a farm, where the geezer walks to get help. Enter the tractor with a wire-winch on the rear.
The first passer stops his car in an old hillbilly-fashion to awe at something out of the ordinary.
The farmer gets a big sledgehammer and starts to pound the stabilizer-bolts from the winch to the icy road to keep it in place
Enter a second and third yokel with their cars, all staring at the event.
The farmer connects the winch to the front bumper of the Escort, and walks to the tractor to power it. Enter hillbillys No: 4, 5 and 6.
As the farmer started to tighten the wire to pull the car fom the ditch, a seventh car appears from the rural-side of the curve. Now remember, that the curve tilts inside, and there`s a tiny hill on the inside of the curve, further preventing visibility over the apex of the curve. To make things worse, there`s also a tiny hump just before the turn, so You`ll enter the turn completely blind.
At the last second the driver sees the whole event taking place, realizing that his lane is pretty much full, trying to evade the tractor with a sharp left.
BANG! the car slams full bore to the front end of the first car, taking out the whole frigging line like dominoes as the road was so slippery that the momentun transferred from one car to the next, crumbling the fronts and backs from each and every one.
One just asks, didn`t anyone come to think for two seconds to arrange some kind of warning to the road up ahead... or just move along...
And for those that judge me from laughing from the window, nobody got hurt. Just their wallets...
Here`s another one, that I heard at a class that I took a few days ago:
A truck with an excavator and an extra scoop on it`s bed goes down the road, when the driver hears a loud bang on the back of the truck and stops to investigate to find this:
He forgot to tie the extra scoop down, and when he hit a pothole, the scoop came loose, dropped to the road, bounced in the air and landed where the cockpit of the SL-mercedes, that was driving behind him, used to be.
Pretty gruesome pictures that the teacher showed... A good reminder why you must ALWAYS tie EVERYTHING down. As a truck driver myself I have seen some pretty wild loads without any kind of binding...
Here`s one that happened right next to my mums house. Laughed my **** off when it happened, as anyone with a half of a brain saw it coming any second now...
Scene: Wintertime, about -5c, it`s been really windy all last night, so the blizzarding wind and loose snow has mirror-polished the icy road. A long straight where my mum`s house is in the middle, after that a sharp left turn that tilts to the center. the road goes to the town in our end of the straight and to the rural area on the bend-end.
An old mid-eighties mint-green "grandpa"-escort comes to the turn from the rural area, cutting too in a bit, front corner hits the snow bank on the inside curve, spinning the car butt-first on the inside of the curve so, that it`s rear end bites the bank, so it can`t get free on it`s own. After the turn, there`s a farm, where the geezer walks to get help. Enter the tractor with a wire-winch on the rear.
The first passer stops his car in an old hillbilly-fashion to awe at something out of the ordinary.
The farmer gets a big sledgehammer and starts to pound the stabilizer-bolts from the winch to the icy road to keep it in place
Enter a second and third yokel with their cars, all staring at the event.
The farmer connects the winch to the front bumper of the Escort, and walks to the tractor to power it. Enter hillbillys No: 4, 5 and 6.
As the farmer started to tighten the wire to pull the car fom the ditch, a seventh car appears from the rural-side of the curve. Now remember, that the curve tilts inside, and there`s a tiny hill on the inside of the curve, further preventing visibility over the apex of the curve. To make things worse, there`s also a tiny hump just before the turn, so You`ll enter the turn completely blind.
At the last second the driver sees the whole event taking place, realizing that his lane is pretty much full, trying to evade the tractor with a sharp left.
BANG! the car slams full bore to the front end of the first car, taking out the whole frigging line like dominoes as the road was so slippery that the momentun transferred from one car to the next, crumbling the fronts and backs from each and every one.
One just asks, didn`t anyone come to think for two seconds to arrange some kind of warning to the road up ahead... or just move along...
And for those that judge me from laughing from the window, nobody got hurt. Just their wallets...
Here`s another one, that I heard at a class that I took a few days ago:
A truck with an excavator and an extra scoop on it`s bed goes down the road, when the driver hears a loud bang on the back of the truck and stops to investigate to find this:
He forgot to tie the extra scoop down, and when he hit a pothole, the scoop came loose, dropped to the road, bounced in the air and landed where the cockpit of the SL-mercedes, that was driving behind him, used to be.
Pretty gruesome pictures that the teacher showed... A good reminder why you must ALWAYS tie EVERYTHING down. As a truck driver myself I have seen some pretty wild loads without any kind of binding...
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