Gooseneck fifth wheel adapter question

ependydad wrote:

WTP-GC wrote:
This should be interesting...
The entire internet can offer maybe 2-3 examples of supposed failure of the AUH, none of which involved a collision. Now a brand new forum member shows up and has 2 exclusive examples by himself. If the "pyramid structure" failed, that hardly means that the trailer would have come dislodged from the coupler or ball. In fact, no other report has shown an absolute failure of the frame...only deflection of the members.

Accident reports are public record. Please provide a link to the reports.

I followed a thread on a Toy Hauler group on Facebook where owners posted about their crash and the AUH failing. The owners claim the AUH failed during a hard braking maneuver but also admit to following too closely. Timing is so quick in a crash that it's hard to say for certain.

Here's a copy of the pictures and their write-up (it's Facebook, but you don't have to login to see them):
https://www.facebook.com/LearnToRV/posts/1882493731818038?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDLZOLXq1fXRN9-7ct_kdrz6fpJBEoaPrtOK0exk7mYDRDto4RyknVX3zS0CIHaMVrb8IRdlpsAKIx0n2VR-WZIke4QJcDKEzBn7-frHjN4MMDZsb_8a2w7GPE6UejD9Rv-_sedVefniAiAh8oI5x-f8auFEDAEvgDNXZrWDURetRcPSXNWced20iNP7Jfs67W_yYVPqLH-ZwZo8RBha6T7hsw0gV6aLHx7V6oi07AyUM7NymFsRM8a0YibasXj3xxsvHPftCuC2aW5f16Ohdcn5pJSZw-lq-N0yQZifjdxmEAh2HmzEt1r04XzpA4Yw_X_jnenggsRKjnrxeAqPic4Aw&__tn__=-R

The owners sent the mangled hitch back to Andersen but never heard anything back from them.

This was the "new and improved" design.

I also read about this particular accident on another forum, and the driver blamed the accident on the Andersen hitch, stating the hard braking caused the hitch to bend, the ball on the Andersen to snap off, and the momentum of it causing him not to be able to stop in time, and hitting the vehicle in front of him. The vehicle in front of him was trying to stop to miss an accident with two cars that had collided into each other.

This was on the Montana owners forum, with pictures of the vehicle he hit etc. My question would be how in a panic stop would anyone know that the hitch had failed before he hit the vehicle in front of him. A lot going on in just a second or two or whatever .