Video of TT flips over on Parkway Monday
Monday July 24,2017 New Jersey Parkway A driver is lucky to be alive after the SUV he was driving overturned while towing a camper on a busy New Jersey highway Monday afternoon. Yup I can tow tha...
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afidel wrote:
Unless my understanding of physics is wrong slamming on the brakes is the exact wrong thing to do. It's the same situation as a blowout, you want to gently accelerate to put the dominant vector in the proper direction (forward), hitting the independent trailer brakes also helps to align the vectors through the tow vehicle, just in a smaller total momentum, so the ideal solution is likely to gently accelerate AND hit the trailer brakes, none of that would visibly illuminate the taillights.
You would be correct, however try telling someone to punch it if the trailer starts swaying and see the confused look you get!
Although one time someone heeded my advice (literally after instructing him what to do if a trailer started swaying), he effed it all up. Apparently was already doing about 75 when he started heading downhill on the freeway and the sway started. No trailer brakes, hence my warning and instruction because I knew this kid didn't know sh--- from shinola and also wasn't the brightest bulb in the drawer.
Well after hitting the 92mph speed limiter on the ole F250 and not getting straight, he lost it.
Weight cops and moral authorities need not respond to this. It was over 20 years ago. I was a colleague of the "kid" same age too and he was not working for me, he was on another project not under my supervision. I wouldn't have trusted him to tow a trailer! Lol
As evidenced by him totaling his new Trans Am into the side of a mountain with 4 of us in the car shortly thereafter, He just couldn't drive,
period!
