Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials
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Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!
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Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!
Here is the non-Fox News article:
https://www.kxxv.com/news/local-news/two-dead-one-critically-injured-after-oversized-load-falls-off-trailer
"Temple police confirmed that two people died and one was seriously injured after an oversize load came off its trailer Saturday.
Temple Fire and Rescue responded to the crash around 11 a.m. on State Highway 36, west of Highway 317.
Crews found the oversized load pinning a vehicle beneath. The load being hauled by the transport fleet was 350,000 lbs. It took four hours to extract one victim, who was flown to the ER with life threatening injuries.
Officials say the cause of the accident is still under investigation. The road remains closed at this time."
The cause seems pretty obvious. Transporting an oversized load on a road that was obviously not designed to handle that kind of load safely. No public roads are really. The fact that it was even allowed on a public road is fucking appalling.
Yes we'll just move these parts outside of the environment.
For the uninitiated:
https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
My man 🤝
Or maybe move smaller safer pieces. It is a fucking PUBLIC road, may e the kind of thing that should be permitted to be safely and completely CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC if such an obviously dangerous load needs to use it. But, I guess a little government oversight and corporate ethics is too high a price compared to those dead citizens.
Or how about do it with strict safety regulations and/or in smaller parts?
That's why they have permitting processes that include route inspections, filed routes, and planning. Depending on the load they might have police escorts to basically shut down the roads following the load.
Big stuff has to be moved sometimes and things can go to extreme lengths to make it happen. If they don't go on public roads, how else can things be moved?
In LA they moved a giant boulder to the LA County Museum of Art that had a whole documentary around it.
Then the amount of work put in to move the space shuttle. They had to move street lights and power lines out of the way. There can be so much coordination to move big loads.
If that had been true for this case these deaths could have been avoided. Thanks for mansplaining the very thing I was upset did not happen and did not save these people from a meaningless death.