According to the permit, the name of the transport company is Southern Transport LLC, based in Texas. The permit was reportedly effective from April 26 to May 5. The applicant was listed only as "Joe".
The permit described the load that fell off the truck as a "demethanizer". The load reportedly came from Houston, Texas and its final destination was in Winkler County, Texas.
According to the Temple Police Department, the truck was traveling on Highway 36 when a column fell off the truck and onto a car on April 27. Two passengers in the car, identified as 22-year-old Abigail Boatwright and 17-year-old Evan Boatwright, were reportedly killed in the crash, and the driver of the car was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Temple Fire and Rescue told 6 News the column pinned the vehicle underneath for several hours. The load reportedly weighed around 350,000 pounds.
6 News has been unable to reach anyone at Southern Transport LLC as of the time this article was written.
Thats got Granny beat by a bit...
Freaky, tragic event. Might end that trucking company. Sad.
I never, ever drive behind a truck hauling anything on a flatbed - I’ve heard this same story too often “spilled load” on the freeway, unfortunately people died in this incident.
I thought of this the other day when I saw a truck dead ahead in my freeway lane hauling a load of very large pipes - and going well over the speed limit. I passed two lanes over, quickly and it looked like the pipes weren’t secured well on the bed of the truck.
My husband said same about not driving behind trucks with flatbeds hauling anything , especially when he was on the motorcycle - said there was an incident near our house where a piece of playground equipment fell off the back of a truck and hit a motorcycle, the rider ended up being killed.
“””The load reportedly came from Houston, Texas and its final destination was in Winkler County, Texas.”””
The distance from Houston to Winkler County via Temple is about 900 miles.
Lots of opportunities for something to go wrong when hauling a very long and heavy load.
How sad for the family of the victims.
Thanks, very much, for this alert.
Total negligence.
A load such as this should have been moved @ 0400, with escort vehicles, and the road closed to general traffic.
There was no reason to endanger the general public.
The lawsuits will be huge
As far as distillation columns go, that wasn’t a very big one.