Is there a story behind this accident?

Avoid accidents, stay home!!

Lwiddis wrote:
In the news bizz July 4th was last century...and irrelevant.

Perchance there is a reason for the term "irrelevant"? I submit that "old news" is relevant. Such as the Crucifixion, WW2, Mount St. Helens, The Crash of 1929, etc.

Perchance the OP was interested in this story no matter how old it was.

Perchance my buddy Don, a private pilot in his forties, never heard of the "Miracle On The Hudson" airliner ditch! He was astounded when I informed him last week about the feat of Captain Sullenberger. That certainly was relevant to him!

:)

....the C DOT traffic cam imagery is hellacious. Little can be deduced.

This is the little I can deduce from the imagery:

-when the camper "landed" on the on-coming inside shoulder, a tractor trailer rig (based on the width of the dual wheels skid marks) had both feet on the brake pedal to the floor to swerve out of the way of the camper (this begs: what was a tractor trailer doing in the inner-most passing lane);

-the pick-up truck's bed bottom appears to be severely warped / damaged;

-as Suds mentions, pick-up ended its journey in the inside breakdown lane;

-broken light standard ended its journey on the on-coming inside shoulder / breakdown lane...

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....need to see crash investigator photos of the pick-up from every angle to determine more.

Feel sorry for those folks. An incident like that can ruin a lot more than just your trip.

photo indicates he pulled left into break down lane, hit concrete barrier then hit pole ripping camper off

The salesman never said anything about tying it down.:M I'm gonna sue.

Nah, as heavy as that thing is you don't need tie-downs just to get it home.

Somebody told the driver that with 4WD you can take any curb.

If a good pickup camper falls off a good pickup the end of the story is operator error.

If I was in that truck I would of had a heart attack. OMG how scary.