Fordlover wrote:
jody h wrote:
Golden_HVAC wrote:
From the pictures and description given, there are not enough details as to why the truck tipped over. I can see the trailer is going one direction, the tanker the other, and the car somehow is between them traveling in the same direction as the pickup and trailer.
My question is why is the car between the pickup and tanker? Was it trying to pass the pickup when the tanker showed up, then collided with the back of the pickup? I have seen pit manauvers, and it does not take much to flip over a car, so it is possible the car caused the pickup to roll.
If the car had a proper following distance, say 100' or more behind the fifth wheel, I could not see it getting involved with this collision.
I also wonder why the tanker did not take to the ditch on the other side of the road?
So basically from the details provided, you really can not tell what happened. Hopefully the tanker truck has a on board camera, it will answer most of those questions.
Fred.
Being that the car and the tanker are both pointed in the same direction and the lines on the road look like a turning lane that the car and tanker are in. I would think the pickup and fiver turned to fast the trailer tipped and took the pickup with it. It hit the car which in turn push it under the tanker.
The tanker isn't sitting straight in the lane it is occupying, so I doubt it was sitting still at the time of the wreck. It's actually turned to the left (towards the 5th wheel).
The tanker and the red mini van were parked in the two left hand turn lanes waiting for their turn arrow. The fifth wheel trailer pushed the mini van under the tanker and moved the empty tanker to the side.
The two people in the minivan some how lived through it and were not critically injured.
ArizAl
