RV Blows Tire Causing Roll-Over Video

mike brez wrote:

dubdub07 wrote:

Effy wrote:

dubdub07 wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:

mike brez wrote:

dubdub07 wrote:

bigred1cav wrote:
looks like speed was a major factor

Disagree.

It shure didn't help.
The truck was doing 66 mph when he got passed by the rv. I'm no expert but at the rate he passed the truck my guess he was traveling in the high 70s.

Simple to see. Would he have lost control at 20MPH? 30? 40? 50? 60?
Obviously excessive speed caused him to lose control. It is just unclear how much speed it took to exceed this drivers ability to cope with a flat tire. Front blow outs happen and very very few end up like this. This particular driver could not handle it even if he was going less than the posted speed limit.

I fail to see how 20-45 MPH can come into the fray on this one. Minimum speed is 45 MPH. We are probably not going to drive 45 MPH and since we choose to keep our speeds up (most in the MH forum regularly post their speeds as 60-75), logic has it that at speeds of 60-75 MHP the driver would still have lost control. The only thing that speed had a factor in was how far the wreckage continued to skid across the interstate.

Define "excessive". Is it a "going too fast for conditions" thing or a quantified measure of speed? 60, 70, 80 MPH??

WW

I can tell you this. There is a BIG difference in handling and comfort level in my RV between 60 and 70. BIG difference. I can't imagine 80. My RV won't even go 80. I think it was a contributing factor as to how it handled after a blowout. 10 MPH is a lot more than you think when trying to control a vehicle as large an RV.

I can tell you my MH really acts no different at 55, 65, or 75. There are times I have been 80 or above to pass a truck that was getting his momentum up for a hill and I didn't want to be behind him when we was slowed to 20. Several times I have looked down and seen as high as 85. Other than the gasp I let out from looking, there is no real difference.

Since his was a pusher as well, I assume he had the same experience as I because he was very confident in his passing of the 18-wheeler.

The video shows his coach listing dramatically to the left, an action he allowed and probably was caught off guard. Natural crown of the road is to the left in the left lane, so I am sure his coach just went that way; with the left blown tire, that was all she wrote.

Opinion only.

WW

Yea mine acts no different at 200 mph but when $hit happens it happens real quick not like when I'm going 20 mph.