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KMLsquared
Explorer
Oct 13, 2014

Manslaughter charges for improper towing equipment.

This happened locally and I never really believed that investigators would really check into this stuff. http://m.ktvu.com/news/news/local/chp-recommends-charges-fatal-pizza-oven-crash/nhgkX/ D...
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rhagfo
Explorer III
Oct 14, 2014
bucky wrote:
I'm thinking that the oven weighed as much as or more than the trailer. A lot of chuckleheads load trailers wrong and I'll bet my own money the oven was right up against the front of the trailer. Tongue weight would have been thru the roof for that hitch set up.


Did you watch the video trooper stated that the hitch and ball didn't fail just over capacity. The safety chains failed or were not hooked up, and the trailer had no brake away brakes.

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