Trailer crash on mountain road.
Yet but another horrific lose of control of RV as seen from the dash cam of a semi-truck. VIDEO http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2017/8/29/Watch-The-Moment-A-Trailer-Trashes-A-Ford-Excursion-At-High-S...
Forum Discussion
122 miles of trouble free driving we summited Manastash ridge 2672' on I82 in Eastren Washington. This is a 4 lane Interstate 2 lanes each direction. Sometimes both directions are next to eachother other places they are seperated. The summit was at mile marker 6, the accident was at mile marker 9-10. I was in the passing lane due to the slow moving trucks accending the ridge. I was going about 65-68 when I was beside the 18 wheel flatbed hauling rebar. His dash camera shows my excursion come into view. At this time I was already aware that I was in trouble. I tapped my TT electric brakes and nothing happened. I knew I was beside this large heavy truck (105,000lb I find out later). I'm heading down hill, I know from my truck driving experance on the farm that if I touch the TV brakes I would jack-knife. so I try to accelerate out of it (mentally hard to do in this situation). I'm trying to maintain my lane because I'm thinking this 18-wheeler is still beside me. If you look at the video my brake lights never come on, because I'm on the gas trying to get my TV more velocity than my TT, on a down hill grade, and trying to keep in my lane. It happens so very fast. There was no gust of wind, and I didnt experiance turbalance from the flatbed truck like you would expect from a normal 18-wheeler trailer.
I was lucky that the place we went off the road allowed for our speed to bleed off, and we went up a slight incline, and back 15 feet down toward the road. The excursion didnt flip. The rear window blew out, but the second row passenger window blew in. My daughter was sleeping with her head against that window. Why did it blow in? I found a 10lb rock on the floor board at her feet. How that rock went threw that window and miss my angel's head is something I have to thank God for. Its also a reason I have trouble sleeping, thinking of what could have happened.
What I think caused the accident was the TT electric brake wiring worked its way loose. The sway was from cresting the hill and very little to do with the flat bed truck. The cut outs in the hill for the road maybe? The down hill grade and the inability to speed up enough to get the TT's velocity slower than the TV. The not knowing that the truck beside me had slowed and that I could have used both lanes to try to slow the amplitude of the sway... All I know is my family is ALIVE. Things can be replaced, people cant. SO who is at fault? ME. I was in the drivers seat, I'm responasable for the safety of my family and the other people who I share the road with. Back when I drove the racecar the saying was IF you back the car off the car hauler ITS already your fault. But I would never intentially put my family at risk.
The truck driver stopped and gave my family assistance. He lifted my little girl out of the TV hugged her and told her she would be ok as I attended to my young son. He also found some rope and controlled our 130lb family dog. I am forever grateful to a man whos name I dont even know.
I hope this adds the details many of you have been asking for. This account is under a fake name. If you dont understand why, read the comments on the "Daily Mail" out of the UK. This world has some real sick people in it.
I was lucky that the place we went off the road allowed for our speed to bleed off, and we went up a slight incline, and back 15 feet down toward the road. The excursion didnt flip. The rear window blew out, but the second row passenger window blew in. My daughter was sleeping with her head against that window. Why did it blow in? I found a 10lb rock on the floor board at her feet. How that rock went threw that window and miss my angel's head is something I have to thank God for. Its also a reason I have trouble sleeping, thinking of what could have happened.
What I think caused the accident was the TT electric brake wiring worked its way loose. The sway was from cresting the hill and very little to do with the flat bed truck. The cut outs in the hill for the road maybe? The down hill grade and the inability to speed up enough to get the TT's velocity slower than the TV. The not knowing that the truck beside me had slowed and that I could have used both lanes to try to slow the amplitude of the sway... All I know is my family is ALIVE. Things can be replaced, people cant. SO who is at fault? ME. I was in the drivers seat, I'm responasable for the safety of my family and the other people who I share the road with. Back when I drove the racecar the saying was IF you back the car off the car hauler ITS already your fault. But I would never intentially put my family at risk.
The truck driver stopped and gave my family assistance. He lifted my little girl out of the TV hugged her and told her she would be ok as I attended to my young son. He also found some rope and controlled our 130lb family dog. I am forever grateful to a man whos name I dont even know.
I hope this adds the details many of you have been asking for. This account is under a fake name. If you dont understand why, read the comments on the "Daily Mail" out of the UK. This world has some real sick people in it.
