Where are the railroad crossing pole guards? That's a busy urban intersection, I bet vehicles get hit there all the time.

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He almost made it, just caught the tail end.

ALTO = high, tall, upper, superior, loud, lofty, long, upward, aloud, stop, halt, and standstill.

Obligatorio = required

Aqui = here

I'm guessing it was in another country but I've seen intersections like that here too.

I assumed Mexico. Could be points further south, too.

Do they have traffic signs in both languages in Tejas?

Not that I've ever seen. Road signs are state-mandated designs, so I'd imagine even right on the border they wouldn't risk being so controversial.

High tech trucks...

"...Embark PeterBLIT"....

Robots, I tell ya.

@4:14 and 4:50

Aargh!!!

Stop calling them cars!

Looks more like trapeze equipment. Now that the circus has closed, would this be a new act for the Flying Wallendas?

I heard that's in Mexico, trucks climbing the hill are given the largest radius on each turn so they can go faster and lose less momentum on each turn.
I looks like an invitation to a head on collision, but when there's a truck coming straight at you most peoples subconscious kicks in causing them to scream, shit, and change lanes. Usually. ;)

I guess that makes sense, but jeez. Couldn't they have made the arrows on the road less whack? :confused:

Interesting--I would have guessed it was for the benefit of the trucks going down, so they could take the inside turn and be less likely to swing outward and fall off the edge. Either way, it looks like top speed is about 30 mph, so it's probably pretty well-controlled.

Not necessarily in that order.

I hope she don't experience this.<--Facebook link apologies.

There are some places where it sure seemed like I did!

Lotta wheels...

Wuzzat, 66-68 wheels? I can't see atm.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, theeeerrrrrrre's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

Well, not every day...

...the horror, the horror...

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That appears to be one awesome-looking recovery vehicle.

Won't the chocolate harden on the median or wherever it winds up?

It will stink this summer.

Probably gobbled up by summer but lots of diabetic critters in the woods.

They need that overturned truck of bees that happened on I-95 to link up with this. Or... do bees like chocolate anyway?

If it's pure chocolate and not milk chocolate it may not be sweet ??

This is something Pam doesn't see every day, nor do the rest of us.
Reliable sources say 4.4 million, Fox news says 4.6 million. :rolleyes:

Prolly cuz all those ppl he pulled out in front of had decent brakes.

Yeah, I know, but it's happened to me too often lately.

And I ain't over it yet.

I had a woman do that to me not long ago. Pulled out from my right turning left, couldn't see me because she was holding the phone up to the left side of her face like a blinder. :facepalm:

There's a spot on my commute where, on a steep hill, a driveway enters the road from behind a huge tree. I'm always concerned when I see the hood of a car peek out.

Luckily, it's a hospital's driveway, so any casualties won't have far to go.

That is exactly why all tinted windows should be banned. In my case, I watched the eyes of that woman holding a cell phone. And was stopping before she even fully turned ... because I could see her eyes and knew she had never looked. I could see her eyes because no windows (front and side) were tinted.

What about the phone on the side of her head? Did ya see through that to see her eyes?

I can't comment for others, because they don't have x-ray vision like moi.;)

Those damn welding filter windows prevent getting a good look at the SOB that has been tailgating you for the last five miles.
There is always just the chance you will recognize him at the store and he won't be twice your size. Or her and her boyfriend won't.

Who needs tinted windows?

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I find High Wycombe to be a pretty depressing place.
The only way out is uphill so it takes longer to leave than it does to arrive.
The car above appears to have come from the Downley area of the town which, despite its name, is on a hill.
It's pretty exposed up there which probably explains the accumulation of snow.

Well it would fall off eventually, maybe April, May the latest. :haha:

A lot of cool stuff here in this thread.

LOL!!

Smartass passenger to panicked passenger upon learning both engines had failed at 10,000 feet:

"How far can we glide? All the way to the crash site!"

"I bet we beat the ambulance by a half an hour."[/RonWhite]

Yeah, I forgot to credit the inimitable Mr White

Thank you for the correction

Not a correction, sir.

Just kickin' it around.:)

The forerunner of sleeper cabs...

It's several years since I've driven in the US but I seem to recall that when a police vehicle is parked as above, traffic is required to move across one lane to provide a buffer zone.

Memory is a bit hazy but I remember driving in fairly heavy traffic when everyone moved across as we passed a stationary police vehicle on the hard shoulder.

I think I was on I-25 southbound in either WY or CO.

Possibly State rather than Federal rules?

That video was shot in Pennsylvania. I can tell by the road signs.

Brief caption in top L/H corner says Dauphin County, PA.

State law passed last year, if a cop is stopped beside the road you have to change lanes or slow down and crawl by him. So he's causing traffic to suddenly slow and backup.

They claim they're trying to stop cops getting hit but the reality is if you do hit them they have something to charge you with.

Fixed it.

Yeah, I think on all interstates you're required to pull into the next lane, at the least.

IF YOU CAN SAFELY.

The rule in VA is that you have to change lanes if safe, and if it's not safe you have to slow down by 10 or maybe 15 miles an hour. Seems kind of pointless slowing down on RT 81 where the speed limit is 70. Getting hit at 60 is still gonna do a number on them.

The Keystone State

Slowing down means each driver has more time to see the problem and find a solution. Furthermore, slowing down by only 10 MPH means almost 40% of energy is removed from the vehicle. That means brakes work that much better (if necessary).

Many states require vehicles to pas all bicycles, pedestrians and 'stopped on the shoulder cars' with at least 4 feet (1.3 meters) separation.

So why was a first truck on the shoulder before a second truck veered off the road?

At what speed does a ten mph reduction represent a 40 percent reduction "in energy"?

Why? What are they going to charge you with ?
And if you can't, then slow down to a crawl.

Difference between 60 mh and 70 MPH is 36% more energy.

Energy at 55 MPH is increased by almost 40% at 70 MPH.

Doing only 55 or 60 is a major reduction in the energy that brakes must consume / dissipate.

Vehicular manslaughter, interfering w/police officer, murder, assault of a police officer, reckless driving, take your pick. I'm sure there's more one could conceivably be charged with.

Won't stick without witnesses and proof of intent, as long as he stops. Good idea to move to another state though.

Give it a shot. Let me know how it works out.

I've seen it happen over and over. When people are driving and focused on something beside the road like a stationary car or flashing lights, they unconsciously drift toward it. It's just an accident, and when the pissed off cops are done writing a bucket of tickets for anything they can think of, the courts take over with a more rational look at what happened and proof of the charges. It just takes time and money. This law makes it easy to prove.

Won't see this very often...

Given the ease with which the trailer topples in the high wind, it's probably safe to assume that it isn't loaded.
However, once the vehicle is on its side it takes a frighteningly long time to come to rest.
I don't think that the wind had a part to play in that but the kinetic energy involved must have been substantial.

yes, the kinetic energy at play is definitely evident, but I think a lot of the seemingly long time spent skidding to a halt is extended by the kinetic energy of the wind. that rig is still being blown along by the same wind that tipped it over in the first place.

a following sea can be helpful, as long as you want to go where the sea's going. When you try to deviate, the resulting quartering sea can be very dangerous, as the big red sailcraft in the video demonstrates

And the sad part is that the driver of that rig will be hit with a preventable crash, fired and blacklisted.

The powers that be will say he should not have been driving in known high winds with a light load. At the same moment, that driver will be hearing his dispatcher reminding him that he is on a "hot" load that absolutely MUST deliver on time.

Can't win either way. I've been in that situation myself. I just refuse to drive and lay down the safety card. Most dispatchers won't try to fight that and just reschedule that hot load. I just came up Fancy Gap two days ago in high winds, but I had over 41,000 lbs in the box and was pretty safe from a blow-over but a Fed Ex driver in WV wasn't so lucky and he lost his rear trailer and plugged up the WV Turnpike for quite a while while the wreckers unscrambled that mess.

Blow Overs are more common in Wyoming around Elk Mountain and Laramie where wind gusts over 70 mph are not uncommon. I've been shut down there waiting for the wind to lessen enough to roll out along with lots of other light loads and empties. I recall one time where even parked, my trailer was rocking so badly that it was knocking against the trailer next to me. That driver and I just kinda shrugged and dropped our landing gear as best we could to try to mitigate the banging and resultant trailer damage. Hell of a dangerous thing, high winds.