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http://www.pressherald.com/news/Motorists_advised_to_avoid_Turnpike_spur_following_truck_crash.htmlMaine driver in truck crash: I saw him coming and I was terrified
A woman whose car was crushed between a gasoline tanker truck and a pickup in South Portland escapes serious injury.
By David Hench dhench@pressherald.com
Staff Writer
A woman walked away without significant injury following a horrific collision Tuesday on the Maine Turnpike spur near Main Street in South Portland.
The crash occurred about 8 a.m. when a tanker truck hauling gasoline crashed into the back end of a 2010 Toyota Corolla, slamming it into a pickup and crushing it between the two trucks.
The driver of the car, Joyce Gauthier, 48 of Portland, was on her way to work at Hannaford corporate headquarters when she slowed for a long line of traffic trying to enter Route 1.
I looked up in my rearview mirror and I saw him coming, Gauthier said. I saw him coming and I was terrified.
The truck slammed so hard into Gauthiers car that the rear half collapsed, the front end was mangled and the roof ripped backward.
Amazingly, Gauthier was not seriously injured.
With what she described as adrenalized craziness, she stood up on her seat, raised her fists in the air and yelled, Airbags!
Without them, I would have been a goner, she said. Im just so thankful for people like Ralph Nader who fight for consumer protection.
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"She stood up on her seat, raised her fists in the air and yelled, 'Airbags!'” [View all]
Hissyspit
Feb 2014
OP
she got crushed between a gas tanker and a pickup, the airbags deployed and saved her life.
dionysus
Feb 2014
#5
When I was a kid there were horrific crashes like this by our house
FailureToCommunicate
Feb 2014
#61
I used to replace dashboards that had bits of skin and hair embedded in the broken plastic.
MindPilot
Feb 2014
#4
Yeah but Nader is to be hated around here according to the blue dogs and corpro-centrists.
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2014
#29
I agree that Nader was an easy target to blame but their were a number of reasons
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#53
is there a threshold? i was in a minor accident that totaled the toyota, anti-lock brakes my ass,
pansypoo53219
Feb 2014
#37
So how fucked up was the truck driver that he didn't slow down for the long line of traffic, and
kath
Feb 2014
#50
They should be required even in used cars made before airbags were required.
Jimvanhise
Feb 2014
#64