slothrop@lemmy.ca to Videos@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoTrain collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morningi.imgur.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1105arrow-down1external-linkTrain collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morningi.imgur.comslothrop@lemmy.ca to Videos@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGladiusB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoNo one was hurt. The truck could have been disabled somehow mechanically.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoOP means the truck driver was standing right there watching this go down. Yeah, he should have run, not because the truck whipping around was predictable, because nothing is predictable in such an impact.
minus-squareFordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agohttps://www.npr.org/2023/05/28/1178674905/indy-500-crash-tire-grandstand Mechanical parts flying at high speed can and will kill the shit out of you, run for cover
minus-squareYiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 days agoLike bottomed out on the track. Those car carriers have a pretty low deck.
No one was hurt. The truck could have been disabled somehow mechanically.
OP means the truck driver was standing right there watching this go down. Yeah, he should have run, not because the truck whipping around was predictable, because nothing is predictable in such an impact.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/28/1178674905/indy-500-crash-tire-grandstand
Mechanical parts flying at high speed can and will kill the shit out of you, run for cover
Like bottomed out on the track. Those car carriers have a pretty low deck.