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[Exploderpilot]

2006 im still learning the new year

 

[Rich]

WTF?!? Is that Toyota pre-taco as fawked as it looks?

 

[4-lo]

WTF?!? Is that Toyota pre-taco as fawked as it looks?

Yes and no. It was in quite a predicament but getting their was a gradual slide backwards, it wasnt violent and quick. (This was the morning after it happened).

 

[Tetanus]

This just happened on I-70 near Hays, Kansas on Monday Feb. 13th. Ouch!!

 

[Tetanus]

...couple more...

and I've driven this exact stretch of Interstate before as I used to live in KS before moving here.

 

[rattlecanpaint]

Is that I 70? That looks really expensive and lost job-like.

 

[Exploderpilot]

at least there wasnt a car running on top of the bridge where it cut through.

 

[Oliver's]

Yikes!

 

[Joel]

Wow. I bet that earned the driver an immediate drug test.

 

[blackjak71]

^ and a desk job

 

[Stankoma]

I'm confused on what the crap happened, which direction was the truck carrying that thing going?

 

[Tetanus]

This is a divided highway. You are only seeing 1 direction of travel. The 3 trailer axles are on the back of the trailer. The semi was heading to the left if you look at the pictures...the tractor went under the overpass, then the trackhoe or excavator (depending on which you call it...I have worked for 2 different companies with const. departments which called it 1 or the other) on the trailer caught and the tractor apparently broke off from the trailer....etc...

 

[Down&Dirty]

So does anyone know where I could get a good deal on a slightly used excavator?

 

[Stankoma]

Weird, I don't understand how it got that far stuck up into it without breaking out the side of the overpass. Very strange accident.

 

[Wolfpack OffRoad]

Weird, I don't understand how it got that far stuck up into it without breaking out the side of the overpass. Very strange accident.

I think the arm of the excavator was only slightly up, with the bucket resting on the trailer during transport. Apparently this was too low for the bridge and the arm just clipped the bridge's underside, when it hit, it burst through and pulled the arm up as it slowed the trailer/excavator down. That is why you don't see the bridge railing torn. I think you can see the lip it hit in the second photo.

 

[Stankoma]

Yeah I can see that happening if it was traveling the opposite direction. WAIT, was the big arm sticking up through the bridge facing the left and then get bent back to the right? Now that makes sense.

 

[Tetanus]

Yeah, this is apparently how it looked "before". Look at the way the bucket is sitting on the trailer in the box. I think this is how it was being transported and then the higest point on the arm caught and flipped it up. That would have been LOUD!!

 

[CasterTroy]

what happens to these truck drivers?

Like that idiot in winston last night that made my commute home over an hour (normally 20 min)

I think he shoulda had to walk down the hiway and personally apologize to every car waiting....GRRR!!

 

[rattlecanpaint]

How's you like to be drivin on that overpass and all of a sudden a giant excavator arm comes through the road! Wow!

 

[Hammerite_05]

Jan. 06 ski trip in Lake Tahoe.......

mac

 

[Shagnaz2]

SlickRock, Tellico Feb. 2006

Helicopter pad

 

[farmboy]

Got anymore pics? Gotta love tellico in the snow/ice.

 

[zmantj]

cool pics my brother is over seas too.

 

[BigRedBJ41]

he said "it looked like a puddle" i guess he didn't see the cement wall sticking up on the other side of the "puddle"

 

[YJJPWrangler87]

Here a shot of my grandpas farm down in Ga. and another of his dog.

Zack