Ooops! Truck Wreck

I work for a Haz-Mat Response company...these are pictures taken yesterday at a tractor-trailer wreck we responded to. They were taken with the company's 2.1 MP Sony Cybershot, so they are not of the best quality....wish I would have had my 20D. DRIVE SAFELY!

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My god. I can't imagine the driver surviving that.

It took the emergency responders an hour to get him from the truck...all he got was a broken left arm. He should consider himself lucky.

jepers.That's one lucky lucky guy.

That's INCREDIBLE! Talk about a LUCKY Guy.
Nice documentary photos of this incident.
-Bruce

In a wreck like that, luck can't help you. The only way to make it out of that alive is to be blessed.

i bet he was hauling nitric acid. he or she is lucky.

Lucky is putting it mildly, what a mess. good shots.

It was milk he was hauling....6,000 gallons of milk. Needless to say, I don't want anymore milk for a long time.

wow, thats alot of damage....lucky to have escaped with only an arm fracture...good pics

Lucky driver for sure. There are easier ways to make a milkshake :=)

b16pwrdej1 wrote:
It was milk he was hauling....6,000 gallons of milk. Needless to say, I don't want anymore milk for a long time.

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very glad he is ok
looks like it was much too long a (swinging) load
I notice large trucks (over here) are getting longer and longer
thought it illegal over a certain lenght

was it very windy out ?
at first I thought they were plastic coverings for vegtables on the ground (second shot)
that just the truck cabin rolled over
( which was bad enough)

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I am on the road for av 1000km per week, year round. I see wrecks. This guy was off-the-scale Lucky! IMHO the worst off (survival-wise) are the guys hauling refrigerated trailers. On impact the fridge motor unit, mtd on the front of the trailer, sheers off and comes thru the cab.

We have responded to a few where the driver didn't make it....those are the worst to work, but we still have to clean up the diesel and other hazardous materials.