good reason to use your low gears
 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=308_1222022962


This driver had plenty of time to realize his/her mistake, that has to be a bad feeling inside... knowing your going over..


Timberwolf

I believe that accident happened not too far from where I am. I read one of the papers around here that CHP estimated the speed of the truck to be about 70 mph. There was also something in the article about the driver had just gotten his license, and it killed both people in the rig. One of them was found in the rig and the other was under the wreckage.

Wow, wow, wow thats almost scaring to watch. I think I'll start going down Donner Pass in 2nd gear, so watch out for me!!!

You act like an ass driving these things, and there are severe consequences which follow. It's a shame the driver had to realise it only in the final few seconds of their life, but this profession can be very unforgiving. If this was, in fact, a rookie driver, then their company's training programme and/or driver training very clearly failed them.

Oh.. and did it appear to anyone else that he may have been trying to chase after the pickup truck?

I also noticed this video, which is worth a look. Some of the accidents shown in the video weren't likely to be fatal at all, and not all of them are accidents in the US, as the video would seem to imply.. one clearly involved Canadian trucks (though I suppose it's possible it could've happened in the US), two are obviously in Europe (one shows a car wedged under a European curtainside van), and one shows a DAF cabover (at approx 1:36), which isn't a brand sold in North America (DAF is a Dutch brand owned by PACCAR)... hard to say where that one was from.. the truck is either a 6x4 or 6x2 tractor, which could place it just about anywhere in the world.. South America, southern Africa, Australia/New Zealand, etc. Looking again.. venturing a guess, I'd say there's a good chance it wasn't in mainland Europe anywhere, but who knows?'

edit: Found that same image here. It was in Australia.

I doubt he was chasing the pickup but . . who knows.

It looks like the brakes came on before the left side went airborne but the desperate braking didn't begin until it was way too late.

A tip of the hat to some heads up driving by the videographer although I was beginning to wonder if he was going to stop!

Looks a lot like the curves coming south out of Great Falls, MT, on I-15. Wife and I had a truck pass us there and I was sure he was going to lose it, but he held it and made it. I don't know how, but on nine wheels he made it around the curve. Maybe, some people need the adrenaline until it gets the best of them.

When I want adrenaline, I go cow tipping.


Well, I've never really done that, but I would if I could find someone to go along with me.

:lol: I bet you could talk Ridge Runner into some cow tipping.

I wanna go along just to video tape the desperate fleeing from a mad Bull, and how fast a couple of drunk southern rednecks can run, pushing each other down to get away. Should be quite a rodeo. :lol:

Hey, after I broke my arm I went into clowning. Now instead of running away from the bull I had to run toward it??? Yea...... good plan???

Works for me. I'd never heard about it until I came to the US, and I've always wanted to try it since then. I know I should know better by now, but I'm still apt to get a touch of Peter Pan syndrome every now and then :P