Posted on 07/12/2018 4:43:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A mother and daughter from Minnesota were killed by a 600 to 800-pound boulder when the rock fell from a truck in front of their vehicle and crashed into their car.
Karen Jean Christiansen, 67, and her daughter Jena Helene Christiansen, 32, died while traveling in Rosemount, Minnesota on Monday around 4:40 p.m.
... According to Rosemount Police, it took more than four firemen to roll the boulder at the scene.
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After the crash, authorities used business security cameras to capture a picture of the truck, which was a commercial vehicle. The driver of the truck was identified as Joe P. Czeck.
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It reminds me to not follow trucks too closely.
Happened to my truck with my son driving. Came through the windshield but missed him.
No, the FATALITIES make it a felony.
Same here. Stay way back, or get around ASAP
NEVER follow trucks of any kind. And don’t get in front either. It’s a rough world out there.
To this day I remember what happened to a grad at the university where I was doing my PhD. The truck in front of her was hauling furniture (just a regular guy moving stuff) and something flew off through her windshield. This woman’s life was changed forever, but the driver only got a fine.
She went from a bright, young grad to a blind woman with a disfigured face. I stay well behind anyone with a big load.
Hmph!
I guess that rock did roll...
Indeed.
I always thought that the Roadrunner Cartoons would be a great teaching tool for High School Physics. Just going through some of them for the 'impossible' actions like this one would be a great starting point.
As for this lamentable tragedy, God Bless their families and friends. R.I.P.
Colorado also gets Hail the size of boulders.
all those trillions of nuisance DOT trucking regulations are supposed to make shipping safe!
Wot happined!
Maybe Government is just one big huge failure,
along with the perp.
I’ve not seen that movie, thankfully.
They died.
In high school, I was following a pickup truck and a 4x8 sheet of plywood flew out of the bed and sailed OVER my car. All I couldn’t see was instant decapitation headed my way. Learned my lesson real early.
About the same time, I was driving parallel to the neighborhood golf course when an errant drive shot bounced on the road right in front of my car and ALSO sailed over the car.
Nothing like that in the 50 years since!
“Following to close may enter into this mix, ya think”
Yes! I never fallow loads like that too closely.Wait for a gap, and blast past.
The Original Cello player from ELO was killed when a large round hay bail got loose and rolled down a hill- Then crashing into his car.
Wow, pretty sad to see the attempts at “humor” on this thread. Disgusting.
Driving down the freeway I told the fellow I was with to not stay behind a truck with big mattresses in it. They didn’t look secured. The truck flew on down the road, but we met up with it again. It had lost a huge mattress which had found it’s way inside of a car behind it. The wheels had turned the mattress into the interior under part of the car. Just a part of it was visible and the car was somewhat up in the air with the mattress in it. It is amazing the people lived and somehow got off the road. I don’t know how they did it. I would have been really thanking The LORD for sure. I did for them.
Also, a friend in Madison, Wisconsin was instantly killed when a piece of something wooden flew off the truck in front of her. When she tried to stop for it a car rammed into her from behind. Her back bone and neck broke and she was instantly dead.
It is really smart to stay, as much as possible, away from any vehicle that may have something it’s carrying that isn’t secure.
Well he’s a trucker, so he might have a bunch & we just can’t see (thankfully).
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