Posted 2008-12-24 4:27 PM (#96450 - in reply to #96449) Subject: RE: TX Trailer Accident
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Posts: 148 Location: South of Dallas
Wow... I wonder if the trailer ever flipped and just landed back up. I can't even begin to imagine how that happened and what took place. I know that stretch of road and I highly suspect speed probably had something to do with it. Anyone find any details on it?
Posted 2008-12-24 5:18 PM (#96451 - in reply to #96449) Subject: RE: TX Trailer Accident
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Posts: 3802 Location: Rocky Mount N.C.
Don't look like the trailer rolled. I'm thinking it may have been empty. No doors or windows open..... No horses to be seen. May be a case of the "tail wagging the dog" or as simple as running off the road, over correcting, then a jack knife. There is a little drop off from the asphalt to the dirt shoulder.
Posted 2008-12-24 11:36 PM (#96466 - in reply to #96449) Subject: RE: TX Trailer Accident
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Posts: 1351 Location: Decatur, Texas
WOW! We live about 10 miles from there I never heard anything about it. Not even in the local paper. I am researching the WCM now and can not find anything but the video clip.
I am trying to watch the video of it and my slow dial up gives me some good details. If you look real close at the hitch of the truck, it is not damaged and the only thing holding the truck and trailer togather is the saftey chains. Makes you stop and think if the hitch was actaully latched down correctly or if they forgot to latch it after they hooked up.
That part of the hwy, has about a 6" drop off from the hwy to the gravel so it does not take much to send you off the road.
Posted 2008-12-26 10:51 AM (#96492 - in reply to #96449) Subject: RE: TX Trailer Accident
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Posts: 3
Truck has the spare tire on it may have been under inflation and or the donut. They are very lucky I seen a bout the same wreck with the same type of trailer but the trailer was one it side and the horses went thru the roof.... They was over loaded.....
Posted 2008-12-26 11:28 PM (#96522 - in reply to #96492) Subject: RE: TX Trailer Accident
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Posts: 1351 Location: Decatur, Texas
I noticed that spare tire also.
Did anyone else see the hitch I was talking about???
I contacted WCM to try and get some more info and they acted like I did not know what I was talking about and tried to tell me they knew of no accident with a truck and trailer on that day.
TX Trailer Accident
