lucky driver

 

Best to slow down a bit.

 

Truck driver did!

 

That accident would basically turn any car into a pimple,

 

Looks like he is trying to read the serial # on the trailer.....lol

 

Ouch..... He's one LUCKY, fella.

 

Yeah, some people have been known to lose their heads in situations like that.

- Eric

 

Looks like the guy made it and you know as far as the car, with a little rubbing compound and wax "it will polish out.".

 

There's another similar corvette/semi crash that's been floating around the net for a while... that driver wasn't so lucky. The 'vette is buried beyond the passenger compartment and the brake lights are still on.

 

i guess that guy opted for the "clean shave", the first guy almost got it.

 

I thinke he is saying "I hit my head right there"

 

He said it wasn't his fault. He blew the horn and the truck wouldn't move.

 

He's saying, "Get my other hand free, so I can finish that text."

- Eric

 

here's the other pic...

 

I saw the story this week. The driver ducked at the last minute. That's the only reason he's alive. It was a story about how truck trailers have inadequate bumpers. It should have been a story about dumbass corvette drivers following too closely.

 

Ouch. That hadda hurt.

Is that the steering column sticking out the back window?

- Eric

 

As far as the inadequate safety features on trailers, the inception of the bars that extend down towards the ground were the result of a similar accident that killed Jayne Mansfield and her husband in 1967. At that time, most will remember there was nothing required below the bottom of the load floor.

 

Regulations are a slippery slope but some tall vehicles scare me. Jacked up 1-ton trucks with bumpers 3' in the air being driven like Porsches by guy with a phone in particular.

 

Forget about safety regulations, these guys need glasses among other things. What, they couldn't see the big truck in front of them? Going triple digits and couldn't handle their cars? Both lucky they lived.