9mo ago

Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials

www.yahoo.com Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials

Authorities are investigating after an oversized load came off its trailer, causing the death of two people and leaving one person injured Saturday morning in Temple, Texas.

Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!

You're viewing a single thread.

58 comments

Let me guess: it happened because the relevant safety regulations were repealed or the authority in charge was dissolved or muzzled.
- Or perhaps because the owners of the transport company may have refused to listen to safety concerns from employees because it would require expensive upgrades and additional personnel that they didn't want to pay for.
  In either case, I am sure this will be a "No one could have predicted this" situation, the driver of the truck takes all the blame, and nothing changes regarding company policy or safety regulations.
  
  The company can only get away with this sort of thing if there isn't adequate oversight. The root cause is political. If that indeed had anything to do with it, which is speculation at this point.
  
  Yep. No matter the cause, I expect the responsible parties to face zero meaningful consequences.
  
  And they wonder why we’re so fucking jaded 😂😂 but for real. Justice doesn’t exist anymore.
  
  Fairly certain that it never has.
  
  While this is probably what will happen because Texas, there was a really horrible limousine crash in New York and it basically destroyed the stretch limo industry
  
  I'm guessing the people involved in the limo crash that changed things where not poor normal people.
  
  Yeah, and it shocked a lot of the rich folks to learn they'd die horribly if they were in an accident so they took action
  
  I think the 1990s, 2000s, and beyond killed the stretch limo industry. I don't think anyone finds them that cool anymore and they're a pain in the ass to own and operate I'm assuming.
  
  I thought it was all the gaudy shit they started putting into the back of stretch Hummers. It's a plastic facsimile of being rich.
  
  Man I hope not. The owner or the truck or trucking company, or whoever was paid to transport the load, should be held liable. They paid the driver, subcontracted to an independent contractor and are therefore responsible for the performance. They could sue the driver/sub if they felt they misperformed by insurance should eat that trucking company alive for this.
  
  Depending on how the contracts are written, the transport company may now be extremely fucked too.
  This always happens. Skimp on safety to save pennies, then lose millions in equipment in a disaster. The person buying this equipment is going to demand a new one for free, and the supplier is going to point at the transporter.
  Justly so. Let them lose everything for trying to cut corners and killing people as a result.
- The load was 10 times the standard limit

58 comments