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- Happy to see the caption saying no serious injuries.
IMHO, more than making a statement that it is unsafe to ride in trailers, I think the accident makes the statement that although we may be "on vacation" we should not relax our concentration on the roadways. Veebyes wrote:
OK, how did that happen? Wind? Not enough TV? Collision? Wet road? Inexperience towing? Texting? Speed? Mechanical failure?
Messy.
Probably all of the above
Mike- I am surprised that there are so few accidents with people pulling trailers on the highway. Most survive in spite of themselves and do not begin to leave enough space between their vehicle and the one ahead and most drivers do not anticipate onramp traffic and allow for merging which is going to occur. Add in the use of cell phones and people, even pro truckers, texting as they drive and it is a wonder that there are so few accidents and fatalities.
I think about the driver and the passengers who go from having a happy day to quite the opposite in a matter of seconds and their lives take a very unexpected turn. Instead of rushing to their destination they are instead being rushed to a hospital. - One of the captions said there were no life threatening injuries.
mowermech wrote:
Very nicely put.
"I think the difference is it's illegal for a reason."
In many states, riding in a fifth wheel or a truck camper is perfectly legal.
There will always be accidents. There simply is no way to make everything safe.
It is sad when something like this happens, but it really "proves" nothing, except that stuff happens, and that, yes, we should ALL be careful.
Good luck.- "I think the difference is it's illegal for a reason."
In many states, riding in a fifth wheel or a truck camper is perfectly legal.
There will always be accidents. There simply is no way to make everything safe.
It is sad when something like this happens, but it really "proves" nothing, except that stuff happens, and that, yes, we should ALL be careful.
Good luck. - Some years ago going West from El Paso, there was a dust storm and high winds blowing, I was doing 40 miles per hour and seriouslly considering geting off the road when a big Chevy Prarie wagon pulling a trailler past doing about 80 MPH with the trailler swaying a bit, about a couple of miles up the road we came up on the scene of the chey and the frame up side down, the toilet paper unrolling in the wind and some people stopped on both sides of the reoad, all that was left was the trailler's frame, everything else was trash.
High wind and high profile vehicle sides are an accident waiting to happen, ever carry an 8x4 plywood out doors with a little wind, makes a great sail.
Add an under powered vehicle and the chanses are raised, but a salesman and a person that have no incling of what towing involes are a great recepie for a dissater on the making.
Hoppe no one was hurt.
navegator - I looked at the pictures and can detect scrapes on the roadway. Maybe sway rolled and slide to the side hit the grass and rolled hard.
- OK, how did that happen? Wind? Not enough TV? Collision? Wet road? Inexperience towing? Texting? Speed? Mechanical failure?
Messy. - I sit in the campground every Friday night and Sunday afternoon watching the parade of rigs coming and going. I see so many SUV's pulling 32' TTs and it scares me to think about them going down the highway at 60 mph.
