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Woman Impaled in Car After Metal Bar Falls Off Big Rig on Highway Near Sacramento
ktla ^ | November 4, 2019

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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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: debris; flyingmetal
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To: shotgun

Wow. Yeah, if it was a fleet vehicle, especially back then, they’d have repaired the brakes back at the truck yard. As much as I live out in the sticks a little, our neighbor runs a trucking business on his property. He owns a lot at the end of our road, and his drivers park the cabs and trailers up there. If anything needs serviced, he has them drive down and pull the cab or trailer right into his repair shop. Unless someone gets a tag number or the name of the business on the door, there’s no way to trace something like that.


21 posted on 11/04/2019 4:15:43 PM PST by Viking2002 (WARNING: Eating too much oatmeal can make you look like Wilford Brimley.)
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To: bigbob

Yep, and in heavy traffic there is sometimes no where to go to the left or right. Has happened to me 2 times...stainless steel semi-truck battery cover fell off in front of me and fortunately I did have room to swerve, and the 2nd time it was a big semi truck retread remnant (”road alligator”) at 70 mph with cars to either side...had to hit it and repair the damage to my wheel arch trim later.


22 posted on 11/04/2019 4:16:09 PM PST by Drago
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To: yldstrk

I’m retired now, but when I was working I handled liability cases for a major insurer. I handled a great many truck cases over the years. Big trucks have always been problematical, but it has become worse over the last 25 years or so. Independent trucking contractors have a great number of foreign drivers, especially Russians and guys from former Yugoslavia. They have been involved in more incidents than any other group of drivers that I dealt with. They are almost kamikaze in their handling of big rigs.


23 posted on 11/04/2019 4:18:33 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: DannyTN

A metal bar at that speed can ricochet off the road and travel hundreds of feet before landing. The inly defense is to stay alert and aware.


24 posted on 11/04/2019 4:19:19 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BenLurkin

I was behind a pickup once and it was carrying a container strapped to a pallet in the back. He hit a typical I-78 bump and the thing flew out and landed in the road in front of me. I was far enough back that I could have avoided it, but I didn’t need to. It skittered across three lanes and landed on the right shoulder. Amazingly, nobody hit it.

The guy in the pickup kept going. I eventually saw him driving backwards on the shoulder wondering what happened to his load.


25 posted on 11/04/2019 4:26:08 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: BenLurkin

"Impaled in an Impala!"

Next on 9-1-1.
26 posted on 11/04/2019 4:27:56 PM PST by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: Fireone

No one does, because if you leave that much space other people cut in and, you then again, don’t have space.


27 posted on 11/04/2019 4:29:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Salvavida
but it never ceases to amaze my why people follow so close to flatbeds or other semis. Absolutely stupid.

The driver was behind the truck, but since the bar went in the passenger side, tat sounds like the car might well have been in the left lane.

You would also be surprised how far an object "falling" off of a highway speed vehicle might go or bounce.

A mid-sized truck driving on the rural state road in front of my house on northern Illinois lost a WHEEL and it bounced and rolled 600 feet before it hit my front porch, causing minor damage to the railing. The truck went a little farther before the occupants realized what happened. I gave them their wheel, and received neither thanks, nor an apology. Type of guys who don't know how to tight lug nuts, I guess.
28 posted on 11/04/2019 4:33:02 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: gratefulwharffratt

Once again, FR needs a like button.


29 posted on 11/04/2019 4:34:25 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: BenLurkin

I watched an eight wheel truck dolly bounce across my lane. Closing speed was way over a hundred mph.


30 posted on 11/04/2019 4:35:49 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: BenLurkin

Driving on I-10 in downtown El Paso, I noticed some motion in the sky. It was a tire. It was very high. I could see it coming down hitting the pavement and bouncing again this time towards me, it was to late to do anything, fortunately it barely missed and careened into a culvert. Wow, hope it didn’t have the rim in it.


31 posted on 11/04/2019 4:37:35 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (WWG1WGA!)
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To: bigbob

I drive Highway 99 to Sacramento frequently. It is a major thoroughfare running north/south and parallel to Interstate 5 a few miles west. The traffic conditions are frequently very congested, even on weekends and, yes, if you leave the advised space three cars will pile between. That said, I think Californians are terrible at securing loads, big or small. (It should be required in high school to know how to secure loads.) My husband had to dodge an airborne water trough. I had a truck dumping drywall sheets on the highway in front of me that exploded into powder. I was forced to run over a heavy object which dropped from a pickup and got my first dent in the new car. Roadsides are littered with chairs, coolers, shoes, bbqs, file cabinets. The funniest was a truck hauling a trailer load of porta-potties one afternoon on Interstate 880, a very busy stretch south of Oakland, California. A door on a porta-potty was swinging open and the wind unrolled toilet paper, literally TPing the freeway.


32 posted on 11/04/2019 4:38:13 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: Fireone

There is no reason of any kind to assume she was not.
I typically drive eight to ten miles under the speed limit on an empty road. I drive pretty far back on a busy highway, as I had a stroke when I was thirty one and my reaction time isn’t what it used to be.

You don’t seem to have even the most vague concept of just how far steel can bounce when it hits the pavement.


33 posted on 11/04/2019 4:51:47 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: Seaplaner

Well you can’t live without truckers, but they do comprise a major part of the idiot population in this country.


34 posted on 11/04/2019 4:52:11 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: shotgun

Even so it wouldn’t have been the drivers fault his brake pad fell off. There are actual accidents where no one is at fault.


35 posted on 11/04/2019 4:55:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Salvavida

It amazes me how stupid some truck drivers are to not firmly secure their loads. Drivers who don’t properly secure their loads get reported to the state police if my husband or I see them. And we stay as far away from them as we can, or pass them as quickly as possible. Several years ago, a guy in a pick up truck was hauling some stuff, including a church pew, when the pew went sailing off the truck, crashed through the windshield of a car behind it, and killed a six year old kid. Idiots like that need to go to prison.


36 posted on 11/04/2019 4:56:54 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MrEdd

Well, you seem to know a lot about me, for not knowing anything about me!
All I was saying is, she might have avoided being struck, had she had ample distance to steer clear. It’s a simple concept, you should try to understand it.


37 posted on 11/04/2019 4:56:54 PM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: BenLurkin
A 18 Wheeler just turned into a 17 wheeler. It´s good no one got hurt.
38 posted on 11/04/2019 5:01:20 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: BenLurkin
When I used to drive long distances on the interstate, I would tailgate the big rigs in order to draft them.

That came to an end when I found out all those rubber tire remnants you would see along the highways were from the blown tires on those rigs. The vast majority of them use retreads which are nothing more than cheap tires than can come unglued any time.........

Nope, I stay my distance from the big rigs these days.......

39 posted on 11/04/2019 5:02:44 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: ought-six

My father-in-law drove semi’s. My husband can tell a green, negligent, or poorly trained driver a mile off. It’s criminal to let those guys out on the road. Just yesterday, we were coming home from Chicago, driving through Iowa and Kansas, and saw two or three semi’s playing musical lanes. We got the heck away from them as soon as we could.


40 posted on 11/04/2019 5:04:17 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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