Driver injured in car carrier wreck.
This is off of newswatch:
The driver of the articulated truck – which had been carrying SUV’s – apparently lost control of the vehicle at around 6am.
He’s been seriously injured.
November 10th, 2009
March 21st, 2009
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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 15th, 2008
The stronger you build them the harder they wreck
Before the were crush zones and back when there was no plastic on cars the impact must have be jarring!
December 1st, 2008
Auto transporter nearly gets loaded
The carhauler.com had a this very interesting picture of a car hauler that seemed to make it halfway inside of a box truck.
UPDATE:
November 10th, 2008
Car hauler trailer severed in two by locomotive
An auto transporter was hung up on the tracks trying to free himself when a locomotive thundered right through his trailer. The driver managed to flee the tractor just prior to the impact and the engineer was uninjured. The load of vintage porsches didn’t fare as well.
Pictures are from 993c4s.com
November 3rd, 2008
How hard can it be to come up with a warning system for leaving a deck up?
How hard a project can this be? Certainly someone at Boydstun or Cottrell can fix this! It seems like a problem that is too common.
Notice the bent sliders in the rear. This vehicle was higher before it hit, and it is still a good two feet above the minivan.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Lankytim Says:
The driver of the transporter is a friends brother. The accident happened at the junction of the M6/M1/A14 near Rugby in the U.K. The junction was designed back in the 1960s and isnt suitable for the speed and volume of modern traffic. Its an accident blackspot because lane 1 of the M6 can be full of stationary traffic queing to leave the M6 and join the A14. Cars and trucks can become trapped in lane 2 and slam on the brakes to try to get into lane 1, which is full of stationary vehicles, and this can cause rear end shunts. I believe this is what happened here. I dont know about other parts of the world but in the U.K the motorways can be very congested and its next to impossible to achieve a decent gap between you and the vehicle infront. Once you create a gap, someone moves into it.
My friends brother was seriously hurt, having crush injuries and being “scalped” by the windscreen. He was trapped and had to be cut free by firefighters. Fortunately he survived and I think has made a full recovery. He very nearly bled to death in his cab and for a while he was touch and go. The driver of the other truck was uninjured.