18-Wheeler Collision

[gabriel]

Wonder what happened here. Its cleared what caused it, wonder why though, seizure or inattentiveness? Who knows.

http://www.10news.com/video/23732498/

[AyatollahGondola]

Wonder what happened here. Its cleared what caused it, wonder why though, seizure or inattentiveness? Who knows.

http://www.10news.com/video/23732498/

It's not all that clear what happened. Because the tape doesn't show what happened just prior to the initial strike that turned the wheels of the big rig, there could have been more to it. Maybe it was intentional, maybe over reaction to some lane drift. Could have even been a mechanical failure.
Very tragic and dramatic video though. Those "tubes" that we build these days for travel offer little in the way of options to escape disasters like these when they present themselves.

[cjincognito]

It's not all that clear what happened. Because the tape doesn't show what happened just prior to the initial strike that turned the wheels of the big rig, there could have been more to it. Maybe it was intentional, maybe over reaction to some lane drift. Could have even been a mechanical failure.
Very tragic and dramatic video though. Those "tubes" that we build these days for travel offer little in the way of options to escape disasters like these when they present themselves.

You're both right to some degree. I believe he was referring to the small silver car that CLEARLY struck the rig and began the chain of events. What's not clear, is why was the small silver car swerving just before striking the rig. That may be the "over reaction to some lane drift" as you put it.

Fun to watch though, shows just how vulnerable you really are while driving.

[23112]

More shocking is that at the top of the page it says no one was injured. Surely, there must have been some minor injuries, at the very least.

[CHPUSMC]

Almost looks like the silver car nearly side swiped or actuall sideswiped the trailer first as overtaking on the right, corrected a little bit, then lost control into the cab of the semi.

They say the way those concrete center divides are made, they can prevent even a semi from going over into oncoming traffic. Obviously, that is not the case.

[AyatollahGondola]

They say the way those concrete center divides are made, they can prevent even a semi from going over into oncoming traffic. Obviously, that is not the case.

That's probably true in the case of a load that's got most of the weight on the bottom of the trailer, but if you have a top heavy load...look-out

[82-70 David]

Carl Edwards had a bad day after the race and put him into the wall.:lol:
Mike

[TX-DPS]

I had a chance to talk to the Trooper that worked that wreck since Dallas North Tollway falls under state authority, there were injuires just minor.

[Vinnie]

So how is it that so many cameras were on the TC from all the different angles, and whats with the one camera that actually followed the commotion? I was thinking it's such a high collision area that they installed robotic crash-sensing cameras along the curve, but there has to be a reasonable explanation as well.

[TX-DPS]

So how is it that so many cameras were on the TC from all the different angles, and whats with the one camera that actually followed the commotion? I was thinking it's such a high collision area that they installed robotic crash-sensing cameras along the curve, but there has to be a reasonable explanation as well.


It's camera's all along the Dallas North Tollway, not just in a certain concentrated areas.

[mb116]

Two years ago I rolled up on a crash almost exactly like this in East LA as it was coming over the radio. On I-5 at about 6 AM a car cut off a big rig and the rig went into the center divider. Instead of climbing over it, it broke through it ( 3 feet tall) and overturned. Luckily, just like in the video, he didn't go head on with anyone and there were only minor injuries.

[danman2012]

It looks like, rather than the camera actually panning, that the video was edited to create the panning effect. One of the shots pans up to the end of the image, and shows a black bar at the bottom, as if the video was dragged upward.