Posted on 11/04/2019 3:24:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
The CHP says the bar bounced and went through a Chevrolet Impala driving behind the truck. Officials say the bar went through the car’s engine compartment and into the front passenger area, where it struck the woman in the right leg.
Officials say the driver stopped and dialed 911 but the driver of the big rig did not stop.
CHP officers and firefighters responded and the woman was taken to a hospital.
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Yikes.
She looks fine.
Let her walk it off...
Of course the driver didn’t stop. He is not going to know when something that little falls off. He and his company are likely liable, but it never ceases to amaze my why people follow so close to flatbeds or other semis. Absolutely stupid.
I can see this happening. Several years ago, I was coming out of Montgomery, AL on an emergency network server call, northbound on I-85. Rush hour. There was a flatbed rig loaded with logs two vehicles in front of me, and a passenger car between. A splinter of log maybe eight feet long and as big around as your forearm snapped off one of the logs and hit the road. The car directly in front of me swerved to miss it, but hit it at such an angle that it flipped it in the air like a toothpick. I tapped the brakes just in time - the thing speared my front bumper, broke off, and went flying over my car. When I got to where I was going, I saw that it went through my bumper directly on the driver’s side, and left about six inches of the tip sticking partially out. If I hadn’t braked at that precise microsecond (and I was doing about 80 at that moment), it would have come right through my windshield and made a Viking kebab out of me. The auto body shop my insurance company referred me to ended up having to order a new factory bumper and replace it.
Like most freeway drivers, I’m sure she wasn’t following the 1 car length of following distance for every 10 MPH.
No time or space to react.
That’s awful. The police probably had to call for someone with a steel cutting saw before she could be moved.
From what I can discern, the metal shaft went in cleanly, meaning no blood on the entry wound from that side.
I’ve heard that there are times when being in shock means you don’t get the full impact of the pain. Hopefully, she had that going for her.
She was the passenger and you must be loads of fun.
I never follow closely to any trucks, especially flatbeds or open-top containers.
It never ceases to amaze me that so many truckers do not choose to secure (and absolutely so) their loads.
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Darwin rides the highways and byways.
One of my wife’s bridesmaids got killed in 1981 when a brake shoe flew off a semi-truck going the opposite direction. It came through the windshield and hit her right in the head. Her and fiancé were driving back from a wedding in California and were only a few mile from home. They put out an APB on any semi’s that need a brake work but nothing ever came of it.
Yeah, I always figure the guy who failed to secure his load is stupid. Funny how that works. And by the way, you know she was following closely how? And did traffic conditions permit anything else? You seem to have a lot of knowledge the rest of us don’t.
I drive a lot. If you leave that much space at 80 miles an hour at least two vehicles will immediately fill it
“it never ceases to amaze my why people follow so close to flatbeds or other semis. Absolutely stupid.”
What distance was she following the truck?
Was she even in his lane?
Did he change lanes into her lane?
Deeply curious how you arrived at your conclusion.
I speed by those truck as fast as I can and get the hell away from them. They are a menace.
Stuff that falls off of trucks is subject to that whole mass x speed physics formula. Very dangerous. Something came off a trailer and totaled our van.
As I tell my daughters.... Drink more water, you’ll be fine.
I speed by those truck as fast as I can and get the hell away from them. They are a menace.
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Yup. I remember being on the highway and a semi-trailer several hundred feet in front of me blew a tire. Steel belted fragments exploded out sideways into the high speed lane. By some small miracle, no one was along side the truck to take the flak.
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