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Camera catches collision between cement mixer and beer truck ... (Original Post) marble falls Apr 2021 OP
Cement truck lost its brakes and someone died Renew Deal Apr 2021 #1
Yikes! 2naSalit Apr 2021 #2
My husband drove a mixer for several years.. mountain grammy Apr 2021 #3
One overturned on the highway while climbing in the mountains here in Jamaica malaise Apr 2021 #4
One overturned on the highway while climbing in the mountains here in Jamaica malaise Apr 2021 #5
Getting older hasn't lessened the "but for the grace of G*d goes I" feelings for me, either. marble falls Apr 2021 #7
My mom said that often malaise Apr 2021 #9
The older we get, the fewer the differences there are. Children have to be taught differences ...... marble falls Apr 2021 #11
Logging trucks are tough too. I hear car haulers are the worst. KentuckyWoman Apr 2021 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Mazeltov Cocktail Apr 2021 #8
In El Paso. Follow-up video found here..... KY_EnviroGuy Apr 2021 #10
I guessed transmountain road Hawker123 Apr 2021 #12
I can only imagine what went throught that poor guy's mind once he realized there were no brakes. marble falls Apr 2021 #13
Looking on Google maps...... KY_EnviroGuy Apr 2021 #16
It used to happen on both ends every year Hawker123 Apr 2021 #17
Translation: "golly gee, did you see that!? How Terrible!" Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2021 #14
Who are you translating for? You don't think it's terrible? marble falls Apr 2021 #15
I was fake translating obvious swearwords Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2021 #18

malaise

(267,455 posts)
4. One overturned on the highway while climbing in the mountains here in Jamaica
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 10:12 AM
Apr 2021

and crushed a woman who was in the descending lane. She was dead before she knew what hit her. It hit me hard because I have family in the same area and that could have been any one of us on any given Sunday. She was returning to Kingston after visiting her elderly parents.

malaise

(267,455 posts)
5. One overturned on the highway while climbing in the mountains here in Jamaica
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 10:12 AM
Apr 2021

and crushed a woman who was in the descending lane. She was dead before she knew what hit her. It hit me hard because I have family in the same area and that could have been any one of us on any given Sunday. She was returning to Kingston after visiting her elderly parents.

marble falls

(56,029 posts)
11. The older we get, the fewer the differences there are. Children have to be taught differences ......
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 11:05 AM
Apr 2021

... we older folks have learned to appreciate them.

Response to marble falls (Original post)

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,480 posts)
10. In El Paso. Follow-up video found here.....
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 10:54 AM
Apr 2021


RIP to the deceased. Fortunate it was not a bus filled with people........
 

Hawker123

(74 posts)
12. I guessed transmountain road
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 11:15 AM
Apr 2021

Always been an issue. They did put runaway truck exits on both ends. I wonder why it was not used

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,480 posts)
16. Looking on Google maps......
Sun Apr 18, 2021, 12:53 PM
Apr 2021

the only emergency exit I'm seeing is over 2-miles back up the mountain just before the Mays Park exit. However, further down he could have just ditched it off to the right into the desert.

I'm thinking his brakes may have failed at the last minute near the N. Desert intersection, so he didn't have any choice. I wonder if he tried his emergency brake.

I followed the highway down most of the mountain and that is one hell of a long incline, approx. 4-miles.

El Paso is lucky more people were not killed.

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