Florida I-75 TT Accident

rockhillmanor wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:

fla-gypsy wrote:
This we know; something went terribly wrong. RV'ing is supposed to be fun not put your life or your loved ones in peril.

Anything you can do to reduce the hazards and lessen the risks is worthwhile and that includes adequate tow vehicles.

Too many people think safety is just some buzzword or some kind of crutch for risk averse pansies. Once you've seen the destruction it can do to human beings you look at it differently. No pastime is worth your life, do it right! It doesn't have to be ultra expensive either. Sometimes it just takes a moment to think things through. I will disagree with some and say accidents don't just happen,

they are caused and can be prevented.

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If your worried about getting in an accident you have the wrong hobby.

It is NOT being WORRIED. :R
It's called being conscientious and having a safe vehicle and/or combo of vehicle and TT. AND more importantly be a safe vehicle around other drivers on the road.

Would you send your kid out in a car with bald tires and say don't worry? Would you send your kid out in a car with bad brakes and say don't worry?

Length of TT and length and wheel base of TV DOES matter on how SAFE that set up will be running down the road.

A TT that is too long towed by a small short wheel based TV is NOT a safe setup.

It's pure physics, the wrong tow vehicle can not handle keeping a too long TT from swinging/jack knifing when confronted with 'everyday' occurrences on the road such as wind, semi's passing by, or a sudden correction if another driver cuts you off, or having to brake suddenly etc. A 'correct' tow vehicle will be able to handle unexpected incidences that can and does happen on the roads we travel.

Have it your way then. You're being "conscientious" about the wrong thing and have flawed logic.

The facts are about 100 people are killed on the roads of the US every day. That's a fact.

The gross majority of those, 99%? (speculation on my part) are not towing a thing. And yet they are dead from an auto accident. That tells me that those auto accidents had nothing to do with the length of their trailer or anything to do with their trailer because what? 95-99%-99.99999% were not even towing anything! They died because of the mere fact that they were driving on a road.

You remind me of an old dear friend that drove over 3,000 miles to pick up a truck he just bought. I ask him why he didn't fly? His response? "Too dangerous, I don't trust those **** airplanes". LOL


As to your question about tires and brakes.
Would you put your family on a 747 aircraft to fly across the country if every 3rd day one crashed and killed everybody aboard? Because whether you like it or not that's what you and I are doing every time we drive go to work or on vacation.

I'll say it again. I don't worry about these things much. For "me", it's an acceptable risk to drive 6 hours to race or drive 5000 miles to go on vacation because the odds of me getting in an accident driving to or from work is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH higher. And that's a fact.

PS: Thanks Ben and others. :)