Camper rollover-please be careful

[Crowe]

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/boston-south/photos-camper-rollover-along-interstate-495/-/9848842/21...

[fj12ryder]

mowermech wrote:
"I think the difference is it's illegal for a reason."

In many states, riding in a fifth wheel or a truck camper is perfectly legal.
There will always be accidents. There simply is no way to make everything safe.
It is sad when something like this happens, but it really "proves" nothing, except that stuff happens, and that, yes, we should ALL be careful.
Good luck.

Very nicely put.

[mowermech]

"I think the difference is it's illegal for a reason."

In many states, riding in a fifth wheel or a truck camper is perfectly legal.
There will always be accidents. There simply is no way to make everything safe.
It is sad when something like this happens, but it really "proves" nothing, except that stuff happens, and that, yes, we should ALL be careful.
Good luck.

[navegator]

Some years ago going West from El Paso, there was a dust storm and high winds blowing, I was doing 40 miles per hour and seriouslly considering geting off the road when a big Chevy Prarie wagon pulling a trailler past doing about 80 MPH with the trailler swaying a bit, about a couple of miles up the road we came up on the scene of the chey and the frame up side down, the toilet paper unrolling in the wind and some people stopped on both sides of the reoad, all that was left was the trailler's frame, everything else was trash.

High wind and high profile vehicle sides are an accident waiting to happen, ever carry an 8x4 plywood out doors with a little wind, makes a great sail.

Add an under powered vehicle and the chanses are raised, but a salesman and a person that have no incling of what towing involes are a great recepie for a dissater on the making.

Hoppe no one was hurt.

navegator

[Pool]

I looked at the pictures and can detect scrapes on the roadway. Maybe sway rolled and slide to the side hit the grass and rolled hard.

[Veebyes]

OK, how did that happen? Wind? Not enough TV? Collision? Wet road? Inexperience towing? Texting? Speed? Mechanical failure?

Messy.

[gcloss]

I sit in the campground every Friday night and Sunday afternoon watching the parade of rigs coming and going. I see so many SUV's pulling 32' TTs and it scares me to think about them going down the highway at 60 mph.

[fj12ryder]

Wow, almost as bad as an airliner after a crash. 🙂 A good reason not to travel in one of those either?

[mockturtle]

Not much left of it, is there?

[wny_pat1]

Yep, that what they look like in a roll over accident. Seen lots of them over the years. Can only hope that no one got hurt.

[rdhetrick]

Not that there's anything funny about a crash, and I truly hope everyone came out of it okay, but I giggled a little bit when I saw the photo of the "throne" still attached to the deck when everything else was destroyed.

[downtheroad]

Bad news. Always sorry to see anything like that.
(looks to be a small, short wheel base SUV towing)

[BB_TX]

A good visual on why no one (or their pets) should be allowed to ride in a trailer.