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Tag Archives: wrecks
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.
Bad day for a carhauler
At least it doesn’t look like anybody got hurt
Passenger train slams into stuck car carrier
photo gallery here This is from the: “By Christopher D. Kirkpatrick ckirkpatrick@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Friday, Mar. 20, 2009 Ten minutes after leaving Charlotte on a train Friday, Cherisse Boyce-Hollingsworth felt her passenger car lurch forward and then she saw cars tumbling … Continue reading
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.
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.
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 … Continue reading
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!
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: March 9th, 2009 at 2:20 pm Lankytim Says: The driver of the transporter is a friends … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading