Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials
Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials
Authorities are investigating after an oversized load came off its trailer, causing the death of two people and leaving one person injured Saturday morning in Temple, Texas.
Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!
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Well, this is just an open and shut case of reckless driving, clearly the driver should have avoided the situation, and if they had, they would not have been crushed!
I mean, this is just super basic stuff, "don't get into dangerous situations" is something you learn even before learning to drive.
It's is not hard.
/s (just in case)
Tbf if I saw a truck hauling what appears to be about a dozen trailers, I'm either passing it at Mach 8 or staying far behind it, because my brain immediately said "oh fuck that" at the 'what if' situations fueled by the photo. Actual nightmare shit.
The photo isn't great, but my memory of that stretch of road is there is a curve after a bridge. If the load came off and the truck was eastbound, that giant pole would have rolled across oncoming traffic. The poor driver coming the other way never stood a chance of avoiding it.
There's another link in the thread with a side and frontal photo; it didn't cross traffic. But that's equally terrifying.
Wait until transport trucks are automated.
They already are (waymo has been having automated rigs with a safety driver at the wheel for over 5 years now; I've been up close and personal with them). Usual loads don't bother me, but anything oversized or special I'm still very much in favor of having humans drive, or at least as a safety driver position.
When the computer will know not to drive recklessly and has no ego, stress, or fatigue clouding its judgement?