TC accident CA99 in Bakersfield

joerg68 wrote:
... How did the camper end up in this position, almost crushing the cab. What tiedown system did they use, and how did it fail in the chain of events that ended with their truck against that unfortunate tree? Did the first rear impact tear out the rear tiedowns, and the bouncing camper down that slope take out the fronts? I would like to know - for my own safety - if there is a lesson to be learned here. Besides that traffic is dangerous, don't brake unexpectedly if you can avoid it, and sometimes trees grow in unfortunate spaces...

I enlarged the picture and seems the truck hit tree stump and camper just pivoted over the cabin.
When the picture doesn't show tie-downs, I see what seems to be ties still attached to camper.
That is my experience and what I read on the forum as well that week point are tie-downs, where 1" square tubing is not match for 6000 lb camper and I believe that is what gave in this accident.
Coming to reliability of the report, it shows the combo hit a tree in the area having service road and then dirt road going into some kind of park.
I zoomed satellite pictures of quoted location and such landscape there does not exist.
There is something looking similar next to the river, but that's few blocks from quoted location.
Keep on guessing.