Topic: Video of crazy semi truck crash

[Cord]

http://canwest.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/canwest-globalnational-pub01-live/current/launch.html?maven_playerId=globalnationalstories&maven_referralObject=040127c3-c642-4797-bb8c-4fd541f3817f

Incredible that no one else was killed.

[The Mighty Duck]

Aside from the driver, you mean.  Brutal crash...  it's hard to tell what happened in the video, but apparently the truck rolled down an embankment and burst into flame - after driving 40km in the wrong lane.  Amazing no one else was even hit.  I'm also confused as to why no one called the police - the video says the truck spent 30 minutes traveling in the wrong lane. 

[Cord]

Aside from the driver, you mean.

Incredible that no one else was killed.

 

The truck didn't just roll down an embankment. It hit a bridge abutment and plunged between the divided highways onto the roadway below. There must've been a few freaked out people on that road. Can you imagine a semi driving toward you on the wrong side of the road at highway speed? Some witnesses claimed that the driver seemed to be aiming for them.

[Trainman]

The truck didn't just roll down an embankment. It hit a bridge abutment and plunged between the divided highways onto the roadway below. ....

Actually, it landed on the railway below (see the video clip again).  Good thing there was no train, such as VIA or a hazardous goods train.  Could have been much worse.

[Cord]

  Trainman. Yes, railway not roadway.

[The Mighty Duck]

Incredible that no one else was killed.

 

OK, OK, I give.  I'll make an appointment with the eye doctor... 

[safristi]

..Can U say...."ASLEEP @ THE WHEEL..........

[marineboy]

Reports say the driver was a diabetic...

The sad thing is that driving in Edmonton getting so bad that we can take a speeding semi going the wrong way down the Yellowhead in stride as long as it doesn't block the Timmies drive through.

[duck]

Reports say the driver was a diabetic...

The sad thing is that driving in Edmonton getting so bad that we can take a speeding semi going the wrong way down the Yellowhead in stride as long as it doesn't block the Timmies drive through.

    

[duck]

Crash puzzle persists

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/04/03/pf-5179021.html

[safristi]

ASLEEP @ the WHEEL still applies...........

[ktm525]

I have a hard time believing that the truck culd have made it 40 kms if the driver was asleep. Some sort of trance pehaps?

[johngenx]

C'mon, he goes all that distance down the Yellowhead, back and forth between the right direction and driving in on-coming traffic, making it through corners and intersections (yup, Edmonton "freeways" are rife with traffic lights) asleep or in a diabetic coma?  This guy lost his marbles, not his blood sugar...

[safristi]

Tha "Merican NEWS tanight showed us some Video in "camera" shots of idiots causing their own accidents...MAYBE!!??? they should be installed in ALL VEHICLES and  REALLY see who tha PERPS are ..Wot say U?? ...