5th wheel TH wreck yesterday Phoenix

Have to wonder about the seat belt. Did he disable the alarm?

5th wheel toy hauler and a non-DRW TV. Non-DRW a factor? The trailer came loose from the TV. Crushed the TV bed forward of the hitch. All from a blow out.

My heart goes out to the family. Loss of control from a blowout is not an uncommon incident. Sometimes they hit the brakes right away or over correct and that does it. If you go to youtube and search RV tire blowout, there are a number of video incidents of this type. We can only hope we do the right thing when it takes us by surprise.

So sad to see accidents still happening from blowouts. While I'm sure that they cannot all be prevented people need to be aware of how old their tires are (I'd never want to drive something heavy with tires older than about 8 years) and keep tabs on air pressure. Duals are just about impossible to visually check and the $300 or so for a tire monitoring system is SO worth the money. You can check all your tires with a gauge then pick up a nail immediately afterwards as you are pulling back onto the Interstate. TPMS...lifesaver!

The cab of the truck looks pretty much intact, so sadly the drivers failure to put on his seat belt appears to have caused him to loose his life. Both passenger side tires appear to be still inflated, so it had to be a drivers side tire that blew.

This video has more info about daughter in truck and two sons following behind in another vehicle.

http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/219465469-story

Me Again wrote:
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Barney

BarneyS wrote:

Me Again wrote:
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Barney

Kudos to Mod BarneyS seems that far more often than other he provides a note for Closing a thread.

Really sad that the dad could not believe in the use of a seat belt.
See so many times people buckling their seat belt as they have already started driving down the road. The seat belt should be part pre start procedures.

Extremely sad Loss of life for lack of buckling a seat belt!!

romore wrote:
Have to wonder about the seat belt. Did he disable the alarm?

Most will quit after 5-10 minutes on their own.

Lyle

Be interesting to see the accident report and whether that was a 250 or 350 truck. Dollar to a donut that it was a 250 towing what looks to be a 38-40' TH.

Lyle