Video of TT flips over on Parkway Monday

WTP-GC wrote:
I hate threads like this. Almost zero information about how the accident happened, but there will be several pages of heavily inferred reasoning. Won't be long before someone posts the mustang-towing-beam-trailer-treadmill video.

Exactly. I've seen a F350 with a bobcat on a trailer that flipped due to sway. Bobcat was a little too far back on trailer, not enough tongue weight. However, without knowing that fact one could easily and erroneously conclude that something else was the problem.

I don't know exactly what caused this incident, but it doesn't appear that the driver made any attempt to scrub speed. Seems to me that if the driver had activated trailer brakes only, it would have straightened out the trailer, reduced sway and reduced speed. Pauljdav, you are correct that activating just trailer brakes wouldn't illuminate the lights. If this was my rig, I would have given full braking power to the trailer, likely causing the trailer wheels to lock up. Clearly either driver error (failed to brake) or equipment malfunction (brakes didn't work) was at least a contributing factor. There are many other issues that could be at play that we don't know... speed, anti-sway device, etc.

The Expedition weights close to 6000 lbs. A 2005 F350 could weigh as little as 6000 lbs. Some of you automatically assume that the truck was too light (6000 lbs) causing the accident, but a 12 year old F350 (6000 lbs) would be a great tow vehicle. The Expedition is built on a boxed frame similar to the F150, so it has a longer wheelbase than smaller SUV's. I don't see anything inherently "unsafe" with a 30' trailer (again... speculation at this point) being pulled by a properly equipped Expedition.