fifth wheel rollover video

What it appears to me is the hitch pulled out of the bed rails somehow. Anchor pins failed? Not installed? Couldn't tell what kind of hitch.

I agree with azdryheat. If you stop at 15sec you can see the entire hitch. No pins.

What difference does it make if the hitch was ripped out of the bed as the hitch has nothing to do with the bed rails and frame brackets ???

In a roll over anything can break.

Cool vid.
Kind of cool how the tow people were being very careful.

Carri-Lites are very nice rigs :(

JIMNLIN wrote:
What difference does it make if the hitch was ripped out of the bed as the hitch has nothing to do with the bed rails and frame brackets ???

In a roll over anything can break.

Then I wonder what forces were exerted to causes the rollover. The road looks straight enough although it looks as if it is a straight stretch or road just after an off ramp off a highway. I wonder if the driver was simply taking the ramp and took it too quickly. Without seeing the tow vehicle we don't know if it too rolled but with the hitch ripping out I would guess it did not flip. ALmost loloks like the pins failed.
I have always thoughts the typical brackets from the frame to the rails seemed like a weak point.

Thats_Ok wrote:
Cool vid.
Kind of cool how the tow people were being very careful.
:(

If I ever wreck and there is a chance at something being repairable I hope I am fortunate enough to be sent a tow crew as careful as those guys were.

I am totally impressed with how gentle they were. You just don't see that kind of care very often.
It looks very repairable from the video's perspective.

If it did roll because the driver was going too fast, I'm impressed with how good of condition the 5er was still in. All the photos I have seen of a TT or 5er that was involvedi in a crash looked like a yard sale.

Here's the link to the STORY. It says TV was an F-250 but the truck is obviously a dually in the photo.

Here's the text:

PORT ANGELES — An Arlington, Texas, couple were not injured Saturday afternoon when their fifth-wheel truck and trailer recreational vehicle jackknifed, the trailer tipping over on its side on the U.S. Highway 101 eastbound exit ramp at Tumwater Truck Route.

The single-vehicle wreck at about 1 p.m. prompted the closure of the exit for about an hour while Port Angeles police officers investigated.

John and Mary Sasseen walked away from the crash that left the trailer resting on its side after it disconnected and slid about 50 feet.

The rear left side of the F-250 Ford pickup was damaged when the trailer hitch ripped away.

John Sasseen said he saw the exit at the last minute and quickly turned the rig right off the highway, losing control.

The Sasseens said they had been on the road for two months and were heading toward an RV park at the time of the crash.