Transporter flips in Florida
This is off of the NewsSun.com website. The driver appeared to have no injuries. Can’t say the same for the cars he was hauling though. He is probably going to spend some change at a body shop.
February 10th, 2010
January 8th, 2010
4-car burns in Calif
this is off of KSBY.com
Santa Barbara County firefighters put out flames on Highway 154 after a car carrier catches fire.
Fire crews found a car carrier towing four vehicles that was fully involved. Firefighters knocked down the fire quickly and saved the four vehicles.
However, the tow vehicle could not be saved. No one was hurt.
August 28th, 2009
Anybody know whose hauler burned in Utah?
I found this on the Salt Lake Tribune:
A car-hauler semitrailer burned on Interstate 15 in southern Utah early Friday morning, police said.
The driver pulled over about 3 a.m. when his truck shut down as he drove north on Interstate 15 near New Harmony in Washington County, said Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Cameron Roden.
The engine started on fire after he pulled over, and the blaze grew to engulf all nine used vehicles on board and the truck itself.
June 19th, 2009
Another bridge mishap
According to NorwichBulletin.com a bridge in conn. has snatched a car from a carhauler and spiked it to the road below causing more accidents but thankfully no injuries.
March 21st, 2009
This is from the:
Passenger train slams into stuck car carrier
This is from the:
Ten minutes after leaving Charlotte on a train Friday, Cherisse Boyce-Hollingsworth felt her passenger car lurch forward and then she saw cars tumbling past her window.
The Amtrak train with 104 passengers slammed into a truck hauling Mercedes-Benz vehicles – creating the surreal scene of twisted metal and flying vehicles.
“We saw cars, and I immediately started praying,” said the mother of three as she loaded her family into an SUV that came to pick her up from the crash scene.
No one was seriously hurt, but a few passengers with minor injuries were taken to the hospital, officials at the scene said.
About 5:40 p.m., the weighted-down car carrier became wedged on a sloped railroad crossing at Old Concord and Newell Hickory Grove roads in northern Charlotte.
It was unable to move from in front of the oncoming train. The driver had time to escape before the crash.
The train, which did not have enough time or track to fully stop, slammed into the truck, sending the cars tumbling and pushing the car hauler several hundred yards down the track.”
March 5th, 2009
Car carrier gets trapped under bridge
this report is off of lohud.com
PATTERSON – A truck carrying new cars that crashed into a railroad bridge was cleared and Route 311 was reopened in both directions near Cushman Road about 9 a.m. today, police said.
February 16th, 2009
An auto transporter full of new Toyotas burns
You can see more pictures and read the play by play of the entire cleanup by the tow companies involved at TOW411.
January 31st, 2009
Another carhauler tagged on the tracks
KOMOnews.com has a great report on the accident: “KENT, Wash. – A freight train smashed into a semi truck loaded with new cars as the truck was crossing the tracks Friday afternoon, officials said.
The impact mangled the semi tractor’s cab and its trailer, and impaled a new car on the front of the train’s engine, which continued down the tracks for another half mile before it was able to stop.
There were no injuries reported in the crash, which took place on State Route 167 at South 212th Street.
The twisted remains of the semi-trailer and its cargo of new cars remain at the scene of the impact, and the highway remains closed where the train is blocking both lanes.”
December 22nd, 2008
An enclosed Accurate auto transporter burns
This is from wsav.com 3 on your side and Wtoc.com channel 11:
The fire shut down a portion of I-95 for several hours, putting traffic at a standstill.
“A car pointed at my back on the trailer. I thought it was just a tire so I pulled over,” says truck driver Vernard Monroe, but it wasn’t just a tire.
Monroe says as soon as he pulled over, he heard an explosion and saw flames shooting out of the trailer his cab was pulling. “I grabbed the fire extinguisher, tried to put it out.”
