Tragedy involving RV, probably caused by RV.
The newspaper article is not yet online, but according to the Livingston, Montana Enterprise's Thursday edition, the driver of a Class C RV was killed on highway 89 several miles north of Yellowstone ...
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When I read this last night, I felt the OP had some sort of pet peeve about clips and made a giant and likely flawed leap to a conclusion that someone left out a locking clip and killed someone...
Upon further thought, perhaps the message needs to be that we have a whole bunch of heavy metal hardware in our equalizer hitches and that it's probably worthwhile to pause and double check that everything is secure and sound.
Back to the incident- maybe the part owner did nothing wrong, maybe he negligently skipped a step, or maybe he followed the rules, but missed something insidious- a rusted bracket or bolt?...that seemed ok but in hindsight, maybe should have been addressed and might have prevented this tragedy?
Upon further thought, perhaps the message needs to be that we have a whole bunch of heavy metal hardware in our equalizer hitches and that it's probably worthwhile to pause and double check that everything is secure and sound.
Back to the incident- maybe the part owner did nothing wrong, maybe he negligently skipped a step, or maybe he followed the rules, but missed something insidious- a rusted bracket or bolt?...that seemed ok but in hindsight, maybe should have been addressed and might have prevented this tragedy?
