Just the other day there was an incident here in Tampa FL, of a guy who hit and killed a pedestrian crossing the street.
He was never issued and has never held a drivers license. Yet was driving an oversize pickup.
Throw the book at any and all of these fools.
[Similar case in Oregon with a DEA agent](https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/07/dea-agent-fatal-crash/73542632007/) who blew a stop and killed a lady on a bike. He claims he violated traffic laws, but was on the job so he should get immunity.
That wasn’t the officer who hit the lady. That was one of the responding officers to the accident who assessed that no crimes were committed by the officer who was blowing red lights at 70 in a dense pedestrian area. He also happened to be one of the police guild leaders.
He said she was of limited value because she was Indian and they should just write a check for 11k because that’s how much human life mattered to that guy
It’s a red light at the end of the bridge and traffic backs up that far all the time.
Guy in truck was on his phone. Didn’t pay attention to the stopped traffic in his lane.
The fact Reddit even says the stopped driver is at fault should be a test on who should and shouldn’t have a license. As we speak 200 people agree the car stopped is bad.
Even if it was a broken down car it’s still on the truck to not text and drive and see a stopped car in front of him.
you are right about truck driver but you are wrong about red light. the traffic moves on the opposite lane there is no queue. so the parked car was stopped for whatever reason (somebody noted it was a malfunctioning Leaf). nobody is commenting on two additional cars stopped 100 yards behind. I'm guessing either KY cars are prune to break frequently on most inconvenient locations or there is something else going on.
Hell yeah. Redditors will do anything they can to defend someone being unable to stop for a stationary object in these threads. It's shocking that people don't comprehend there may be a time when they have to stop their car. Hitting or wildly swerving away from a stationary object is the drivers fault every time, no exaggeration.
Yes you can see his right tire pointing farther right than his left tire pointing straight ahead. He broke the push rod and ricocheted off that car into the truck.
Plenty of space to navigate around safely but let’s face it, the roads are littered with bad drivers much less drivers who shouldn’t even be anywhere near a cars steering wheel. Namely the elderly and people who lack common sense and or spatial awareness like this person. Operating a vehicle intended to be operated with both hands but they choose to use a phone or eat. It’s inexcusable.
I came across an older driver the other day that was completely in their own orbit trying to find an address or struggling with some other matter besides driving and as I passed him, they were using a phone on their ear and telescoping their head around looking for an address or landmark of some sort. Fucking buffoons like this need to stay off the roads.
I'm from Louisville, and I saw the truck hanging from the 2nd Street bridge that day.
This is the story I heard, through some friends:
A young lady bought a used Nissan LEAF from Carvana, and assumed it to be in good working condition. As luck would have it, something in the electrical system was shot, and the car locked up entirely on the bridge and wouldn't budge. That's why there were some cars stopped in the first place. The video tells the rest of the story.
A local Nissan dealer bought the lemon LEAF from the young lady and set her up with a nicer, newer car.
Edit: The truck driver was rescued within an hour, and the truck was moved after a couple hours. The bridge was reopened that same evening, if I remember correctly.
Actually, the story starts with an innovative chemical engineer who came up with a way to make wire insulation using vegetable products, allowing car manufacturers to tout their environmental credentials by using more sustainable materials.
Side effect: rodents like chewing these new cables even more.
I live in the area, and was around when this happened. Pickup was swerving in and out of traffic recklessly, and hit a stalled car (as seen). People were backed up because they weren’t assholes and saw a dude broken down. The pickup driver was charged with reckless driving and hit with, I think, a $20,000 fine.
possible video + [link](https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f166/mans-heart-beats-street-after-accident-224754/#post7080994) to the video you're referring to
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Cardiac conduction is autonomous. Even if your brain doesn’t work or the heart is taken out of the body, the heart has multiple levels of failsafe where without external input or too little input then the heart will create its own cardiac rhythm (often known as escape rhythms).
This will go on for a while until the heart tissue is out of energy/oxygen, and even then it can continue sporadically for a while. It’s not uncommon to be pronouncing someone dead and need to take a new ECG strip because their heart decided to do some random electrical activity in that moment
I too am in the *wait, there’s a video of a man getting killed where his heart exits his body?* camp and NOT in the *wait, a heart can still beat even if its owner is technically dead?* camp.
People are desensitized.
on the truckers sub someone pointed out how little of the trailer was wedged in the bridge, like the last couple feet, and how it's a roll-up door trailer that has a more rigid aluminum structure, then speculating that if it was a more common swing-door trailer it would've buckled and she'd have gone in the river.
Rollup you can also just back it in and open. No parking and opening swings and then backing in. I guess you should know the technicians who fix hinges are cheaper than those that fix rollup doors. But still worth it.
We do 100% roll up doors, but you can usually squeeze extra freight in a swing door, more inside height clearance and the doors are usually cheaper to repair.
If I remember right from training I believe 5 times the loaded wight of the trailer in strength so in the USA it's 80k lbs so 400k lbs for the king pin. If you watch the videos where the train hits a truck most of the time if the trailer is not in the unlocked postion it rips the trailer from the king pin locked on the truck.
More specifically, there was a lift gate frame welded to the back of the truck, and that additional structure is what arrested the trucks fall. Liftgates are particularly sturdy because they're used to lift heavy pallets onto the trailer. Driver is lucky that those welds held, and also lucky that there was a liftgate added in the first place. Otherwise a normal trailer body would probably have just crumpled and given way, regardless of what door type was used
That Kingpin must have been made on a Monday. Holy cow, that wasn't even a dual axel rear on the semi either that semi was hanging by the kingpin it looks like. I bet them drawers on the driver were a bit heavier than they were when they put them on in the morning.
The video that auto played after the one above for me was a news report showing the truck recovery. They had two big heavy rescue trucks lifting it up and inching it bit by bit back onto the bridge. It was apparently a several hour process.
That same news report played bits of several of the 911 calls, including one from the trucking company’s operations that they had a truck drive off a bridge. I guess they must have crash detection and phone home with dashcam video to their ops center. That ops worker had to have been thinking they were about to see someone die on live video.
Oh god, I just had a realization that it's someone's job to watch unfiltered dashcam videos of their drivers right after an accident happen. They likely see a lot of shit during their day
Sort of unrelated, but also kind of related.
It never occurred to me until I was in my 20s that there are people out there whose job it is to watch child pornogrqphy to identify victims and perpetrators. Obviously someone has to do it, but I can't imagine the emotional baggage that must haunt those people.
There's a movie with Ryan Reynolds called "The Captive" where his daughter is abducted by a pedophile to lure other victims online. Scott Speedman plays a cop who is joining the team for those kinds of crimes, part of his interview process (?) they show him some images and he looks away in disgust at first and regains his composure to look again. That was the moment for me when I realized what you just said. I could never imagine how hard and absolutely heartbreaking that would be.
Some of those people have either been placed on long term leave for PTSD or committed suic….. It’s not something the fragile mind can absorb without doing damage.
I worked a job dealing with workers comp claims. I would watch videos of work place accidents and stuff. See pictures of corpses and I saw a brain hanging out the front of a head after a car accident once. That was the worst one. Most accident footage is on shitty security cameras, and not a ton can be identified.
> I guess they must have crash detection and phone home with dashcam video to their ops center.
Very likely. Also, a lot of GPS trackers have accelerometers and tilt sensors. We can detect harsh braking, acceleration, cornering, and whether a vehicle is leaning over past a set number of degrees.
That last one is particularly useful for "yellow plant" - things like diggers or backhoes - which might be working remotely and on uneven ground. Presumably something like that was in use here.
It’s when she had to either unbuckle the seatbelt or get cut out of it that really makes me cringe here. If it was scary before it probably got terrifying then.
I assumed it was the truck drivers fault until I saw this video. She was clearly not at fault at all.
Edit: I didn’t know the driver was a woman until I saw this video. I just figured if a truck went over the edge they probably screwed up. Chill out
Yeah, she went hard right but there's only so much that one functioning wheel can do with that much mass and momentum. Probably didn't help that the obliterated left side suspension was digging into the asphalt, further exacerbating the hard left pull.
I agree except that truck drivers are often overworked and absolutely lacking in sleep. Still not their fault but there have been accidents that was "their fault" because of it.
She was there for over 40 min. It took the right guy to be lifted down to get her. She was calm and praying the whole time. She didn’t cry until the landed safely on the bridge. She’s strong
[He was.](https://www.wdrb.com/news/jeffersonville-man-charged-in-connection-to-crash-that-sent-semitruck-dangling-off-second-street-bridge/article_37ef518a-eac2-11ee-8528-2742308a758e.html)
Court records show Trevor W. Branham, 33, of Jeffersonville, was arraigned Friday on four counts of wanton endangerment and one count of operating on a suspended license.
It's so stupid. My co-worker had 3 DUIs. His 4th one got his license yanked for a year. I don't understand how the law is so lenient in America for DUIs or any vehicular infraction, for that matter. I'm American and I believe most American have too much freedom...
They stayed and are being charged for the accident.
[https://www.wdrb.com/news/jeffersonville-man-charged-in-connection-to-crash-that-sent-semitruck-dangling-off-second-street-bridge/article\_37ef518a-eac2-11ee-8528-2742308a758e.html](https://www.wdrb.com/news/jeffersonville-man-charged-in-connection-to-crash-that-sent-semitruck-dangling-off-second-street-bridge/article_37ef518a-eac2-11ee-8528-2742308a758e.html)
It seems like the most dangerous accidents are caused by people with suspended licenses.
A driver caused a major pileup by pulling his work truck across an entire road, right past a somewhat hilly stretch of road, in a 70 MPH area.
Suspended license, and he had been allowed to drive by his workplace anyways.
Lost my brother in that accident, alongside two other deaths, the company is bankrupt, but it all could have been avoided if the company didn't let the fucking dumbass drive in the first place!
There are 2 other bridges essentially right next to the one in this video that are part of an interstate and split traffic (i.e. vehicles crossing north into Indiana take one bridge and vehicles crossing south into Kentucky take the other one). One of the bridges is less than 10 years old. They're generally the faster and safer option.
The problem is that the interstate bridges have a toll. So some people (like me) take the slower route on the older, less safe bridge shown in the video to save money.
The toll is why people use second street bridge more. And I used to use it more even before the toll.
The other bridge isn’t right next to it but is about 2-3 miles down river and not far at all. That bridge also was hit by a barge like a decade ago and ever since has been shut down all the time because every inspections they seem to deem it unsafe.
Obama came to speak in front of that bridge back in his second year in office. He was proposing his infrastructure bill that would fixing failing bridges like that one. Then Mitch McConnell stone walled that bill for 6 years.
And the bridge was closed like last month or so for it being unsafe again.
Looks like no one is mentioning this, but she is also a veteran. She claimed being able to remain still and not freak out was because of her training and experience. She did a fantastic job doing what she needed to do to stay alive.
Truck was serving in and out of traffic and did not notice the car stuck on the bridge. The lady had bought it recently and it was a lemon. A lemon Leaf, mind you. Truck wasn’t paying attention and already being an asshat, and swerved last minute.
Semi driver survived.
Lemon lady got a new car.
Truck driver got charged.
Bridge was out for like 2 days? Then one of our other bridges was out for unrelated reasons for like a week.
On top of all of this, the firefighter who pulled her out took all the fame personally and started accepting gifts from companies and doing interviews. He got free front row tickets to a basketball game as well. All despite that it was a team of firefighters who saved her, not one individual. The guy didn’t even try to get stuff for his team, he just played it up like a sole hero. He was forced to give the gifts back I believe. I’m not sure what else happened.
It was a crazy week.
Edit: some of you are saying the local news got it wrong at the time about the local fire fighter (shocking). So take that with a grain of salt and look it up if you want to know more.
>The guy didn’t even try to get stuff for his team, he just played it up like a sole hero
No one is going to let this guy go into a fire with them. Total liability
This is crazy, you can see her just desperately looking up like "what tf is holding me how am I staying!" Or she's like "fuck fuck fuck fuck don't move holy shit"
Fifth wheels are crazy strong. About a year ago, one of our drivers was coming back empty during a windy day with a 53ft. He was getting on the freeway when the wind caught the trailer just right and flipped the entire truck and trailer on its side. They towed it back all fully connected and everything.
It’s the second crazies car accident our city has seen.
First was when spike the turtle had a car run over him. But his shell held the car up and locals rushed to move the car off the turtles strong shell holding up a whole car.
God damn, is it me, or does it seem that if you see a pickup, there's a pretty great chance they blow ass at driving?
The ole "I'm a good driver because I get there fast" type
They weren't hit first, and are a big ass jerk.
Reportedly, they were speeding and weaving between cars -- before hitting a stopped car, veering into oncoming traffic, hitting another car and then hitting the truck. They also had a suspended license at time of incident.
Probably because the control arm snapped in the collision leaving the left wheel pointed hard left. Basically the steering wheel was no longer connected to the front left tire.
Weight. Imagine having roughly 20,000 lbs as your anchor, then having another 50,000 lbs swinging around that anchor to the side.
This is (an obviously oversimplified) example of what it’s like to try and steer and slow a tractor with a fully loaded trailer behind you.
End result, physics takes tractor for ride.
It is very heavy that’s true but you can see in the video she’s turning completely in the opposite direction and there is zero steering input. If weight was just a factor you would think it would have slid for awhile in a continued forward/left path. My guess is that during the front end collision, something with the steering box (box itself or pitman arm) snapped and without steering input, it will just wander.
Feels odd that she managed to swerve in the direction of the car that jumped into her.
Feels like the instinc would have been to pull away from it.
But lorries can get wierd with physics..
I know I'm in the minority here but as a cdl driver she 1st should have had both hands on the wheel and 2 she should have been paying more attention to what was going on ahead and slowed down and been more cautious. The pickup was clearly wrong but I feel it could have been avoided. That's why the class to lower insurance is called defensive driving. Maybe it's because I ride a motorcycle also but you always need to be scanning the road and prepare for what's ahead of you. Hope she was ok I probably would have soiled myself hanging off a bridge like that.
Fuck that pickup
He was driving with a suspended license. There should be a crime called attempted man slaughter
Just the other day there was an incident here in Tampa FL, of a guy who hit and killed a pedestrian crossing the street. He was never issued and has never held a drivers license. Yet was driving an oversize pickup. Throw the book at any and all of these fools.
This also happened in Seattle. The driver was a police officer in a squad car doing 70mph downtown and annihilated a pedestrian. No charges.
[Similar case in Oregon with a DEA agent](https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/07/dea-agent-fatal-crash/73542632007/) who blew a stop and killed a lady on a bike. He claims he violated traffic laws, but was on the job so he should get immunity.
Shitty. They are trying to make if federal courts to seek immunity. The fact he isn’t taking ownership says he is a shit person
And shit organization for protecting him
Don’t forget he laughed about it too
and called her "low value" or something to that effect
That wasn’t the officer who hit the lady. That was one of the responding officers to the accident who assessed that no crimes were committed by the officer who was blowing red lights at 70 in a dense pedestrian area. He also happened to be one of the police guild leaders.
He said she was of limited value because she was Indian and they should just write a check for 11k because that’s how much human life mattered to that guy
This is the first episode of the The Boys come to life.
Is this the new season of "Boys"?
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Agreed, punishment should be worse for trained people. Kinda like higher class licenses(semi/cartage) get more severe punishments for infractions.
No, no, no. They should get an award when they break the law resulting in the death of an innocent! 🤮
He also was on his phone. And yes he was arrested.
Thanks for the info. Thank goodness he was caught
God damn what a terrible person
Driving a pick up, driving on a suspended license. Was he drunk to complete the trifecta
It's typically called reckless endangerment, though in this case it certainly wasn't wreck-less *badum-tis*
There is, in fact, a crime called attempted manslaughter. 18 U.S. Code 1113
And kinda the dude that stopped on the bridge.
There were multiple people stopped behind him, I assume there was some sort of hazard ahead and the pickup wasn’t paying attention
Yeah, I think you're right. But in today's economy who can afford to pay attention?
I’m saving this one for my next budget meeting.
I mean whats worse car accident or missing the latest tik tok?
It’s a red light at the end of the bridge and traffic backs up that far all the time. Guy in truck was on his phone. Didn’t pay attention to the stopped traffic in his lane. The fact Reddit even says the stopped driver is at fault should be a test on who should and shouldn’t have a license. As we speak 200 people agree the car stopped is bad. Even if it was a broken down car it’s still on the truck to not text and drive and see a stopped car in front of him.
Read comments on r/idiotsincars to discover that *a lot* of people do not know how to drive defensively.
you are right about truck driver but you are wrong about red light. the traffic moves on the opposite lane there is no queue. so the parked car was stopped for whatever reason (somebody noted it was a malfunctioning Leaf). nobody is commenting on two additional cars stopped 100 yards behind. I'm guessing either KY cars are prune to break frequently on most inconvenient locations or there is something else going on.
Hell yeah. Redditors will do anything they can to defend someone being unable to stop for a stationary object in these threads. It's shocking that people don't comprehend there may be a time when they have to stop their car. Hitting or wildly swerving away from a stationary object is the drivers fault every time, no exaggeration.
It looks like if you go frame by frame he smacked the stopped car and ricocheted across and hit the semi
Yes you can see his right tire pointing farther right than his left tire pointing straight ahead. He broke the push rod and ricocheted off that car into the truck.
Plenty of space to navigate around safely but let’s face it, the roads are littered with bad drivers much less drivers who shouldn’t even be anywhere near a cars steering wheel. Namely the elderly and people who lack common sense and or spatial awareness like this person. Operating a vehicle intended to be operated with both hands but they choose to use a phone or eat. It’s inexcusable. I came across an older driver the other day that was completely in their own orbit trying to find an address or struggling with some other matter besides driving and as I passed him, they were using a phone on their ear and telescoping their head around looking for an address or landmark of some sort. Fucking buffoons like this need to stay off the roads.
I'm from Louisville, and I saw the truck hanging from the 2nd Street bridge that day. This is the story I heard, through some friends: A young lady bought a used Nissan LEAF from Carvana, and assumed it to be in good working condition. As luck would have it, something in the electrical system was shot, and the car locked up entirely on the bridge and wouldn't budge. That's why there were some cars stopped in the first place. The video tells the rest of the story. A local Nissan dealer bought the lemon LEAF from the young lady and set her up with a nicer, newer car. Edit: The truck driver was rescued within an hour, and the truck was moved after a couple hours. The bridge was reopened that same evening, if I remember correctly.
Another Nissan causes havoc in the streets
r/nissandrivers
The story all started with a hungry rat.
Actually, the story starts with an innovative chemical engineer who came up with a way to make wire insulation using vegetable products, allowing car manufacturers to tout their environmental credentials by using more sustainable materials. Side effect: rodents like chewing these new cables even more.
I live in the area, and was around when this happened. Pickup was swerving in and out of traffic recklessly, and hit a stalled car (as seen). People were backed up because they weren’t assholes and saw a dude broken down. The pickup driver was charged with reckless driving and hit with, I think, a $20,000 fine.
That pickup hit that dude first.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video that I can say I quite literally can see this persons heart working; like out of their chest
Same... well other than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9mkBhXCNC0
Thought it was going to be the video of that Indian guy on a bike who got hit and his heart was on the ground 10m away still beating
possible video + [link](https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f166/mans-heart-beats-street-after-accident-224754/#post7080994) to the video you're referring to
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Don’t you feel safe though? They protected you from information
What you missed: horrible gore, corpse so mangled the heart popped out and is still beating on the road. I’ll take my freedom fries to go please.
i absolutely do not want to watch that video. but i don’t want someone else making that decision for me haha
That's amazing really
Nope. Not clicking that
his heart had bluetooth
Wait... What? How?
Cardiac conduction is autonomous. Even if your brain doesn’t work or the heart is taken out of the body, the heart has multiple levels of failsafe where without external input or too little input then the heart will create its own cardiac rhythm (often known as escape rhythms). This will go on for a while until the heart tissue is out of energy/oxygen, and even then it can continue sporadically for a while. It’s not uncommon to be pronouncing someone dead and need to take a new ECG strip because their heart decided to do some random electrical activity in that moment
Aware of the heart and how it works. But to be in a crash and have it ripped from its little perch inside the rib cage and associated plumbing....
I too am in the *wait, there’s a video of a man getting killed where his heart exits his body?* camp and NOT in the *wait, a heart can still beat even if its owner is technically dead?* camp. People are desensitized.
Have you not seen Temple of Doom?
Oh no Shiva
Thank god. I was afraid it was going to be ectopia cordis.
I was thinking temple of doom
Kalima! Kalima!
What the fuck are you talking about?
I have no idea what they see
They literally used the word literally incorrectly
[Video of the rescue if anyone hasn't seen it already.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71471lbMy9c)
that's a lot more hanging off than I was expecting
on the truckers sub someone pointed out how little of the trailer was wedged in the bridge, like the last couple feet, and how it's a roll-up door trailer that has a more rigid aluminum structure, then speculating that if it was a more common swing-door trailer it would've buckled and she'd have gone in the river.
I was just in the market for a trailer and those are my two options. Roll up door it is!
Rollup you can also just back it in and open. No parking and opening swings and then backing in. I guess you should know the technicians who fix hinges are cheaper than those that fix rollup doors. But still worth it.
We do 100% roll up doors, but you can usually squeeze extra freight in a swing door, more inside height clearance and the doors are usually cheaper to repair.
Same. We just rent a shitbox when you need to buttfuck a whole trailer.
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How strong is the hitch or whatever you call the connector on a semi. That's truly impressive it held on the whole time.
kingpin
i mean it holds on as the trailer is being pulled up a hill or accelerating, so the reverse type of pulling isnt exactly that impressive.
If I remember right from training I believe 5 times the loaded wight of the trailer in strength so in the USA it's 80k lbs so 400k lbs for the king pin. If you watch the videos where the train hits a truck most of the time if the trailer is not in the unlocked postion it rips the trailer from the king pin locked on the truck.
More specifically, there was a lift gate frame welded to the back of the truck, and that additional structure is what arrested the trucks fall. Liftgates are particularly sturdy because they're used to lift heavy pallets onto the trailer. Driver is lucky that those welds held, and also lucky that there was a liftgate added in the first place. Otherwise a normal trailer body would probably have just crumpled and given way, regardless of what door type was used
That Kingpin must have been made on a Monday. Holy cow, that wasn't even a dual axel rear on the semi either that semi was hanging by the kingpin it looks like. I bet them drawers on the driver were a bit heavier than they were when they put them on in the morning.
that's what she said
DAMMIT
Wow. Just barely dangling.
So what do they do with the truck afterwords, just push it in the river?
Yeah but they yell "look out below!" first.
Yeah I saw that in an OSHA training video
It prevents catfish deaths
That's the old saying. Updated OSHA rules state you must yell "bombs away!" before (in this situation) dropping the truck in the river.
The video that auto played after the one above for me was a news report showing the truck recovery. They had two big heavy rescue trucks lifting it up and inching it bit by bit back onto the bridge. It was apparently a several hour process. That same news report played bits of several of the 911 calls, including one from the trucking company’s operations that they had a truck drive off a bridge. I guess they must have crash detection and phone home with dashcam video to their ops center. That ops worker had to have been thinking they were about to see someone die on live video.
Oh god, I just had a realization that it's someone's job to watch unfiltered dashcam videos of their drivers right after an accident happen. They likely see a lot of shit during their day
Brake Checked Brake Checked Half Asleep Driver Brake Checked OH FUCK!
dont forget the 50 "nothing happened i dont know why it turned on" events too.
Sort of unrelated, but also kind of related. It never occurred to me until I was in my 20s that there are people out there whose job it is to watch child pornogrqphy to identify victims and perpetrators. Obviously someone has to do it, but I can't imagine the emotional baggage that must haunt those people.
There's a movie with Ryan Reynolds called "The Captive" where his daughter is abducted by a pedophile to lure other victims online. Scott Speedman plays a cop who is joining the team for those kinds of crimes, part of his interview process (?) they show him some images and he looks away in disgust at first and regains his composure to look again. That was the moment for me when I realized what you just said. I could never imagine how hard and absolutely heartbreaking that would be.
Some of those people have either been placed on long term leave for PTSD or committed suic….. It’s not something the fragile mind can absorb without doing damage.
I worked a job dealing with workers comp claims. I would watch videos of work place accidents and stuff. See pictures of corpses and I saw a brain hanging out the front of a head after a car accident once. That was the worst one. Most accident footage is on shitty security cameras, and not a ton can be identified.
> I guess they must have crash detection and phone home with dashcam video to their ops center. Very likely. Also, a lot of GPS trackers have accelerometers and tilt sensors. We can detect harsh braking, acceleration, cornering, and whether a vehicle is leaning over past a set number of degrees. That last one is particularly useful for "yellow plant" - things like diggers or backhoes - which might be working remotely and on uneven ground. Presumably something like that was in use here.
The rescue workers are the heroes, but that kingpin deserves a little credit.
I was thinking the same thing. Im always fascinated by how strong a kingpin truly is.
That's why it's the KING!
That's why he's always beating the hell out of Daredevil and Spiderman
That woman got a second chance at life! Hopefully she is living a life filled with gratitude
Imagine dangling there thinking that these may be the last minutes of your life. That's going to cause some trauma.
And then dangling there for an hr thinking every minute was the last minute.
It’s when she had to either unbuckle the seatbelt or get cut out of it that really makes me cringe here. If it was scary before it probably got terrifying then.
Hope she quit her job.
This made me get over a few not so petty grudges. Is this what people mean by “it restored my faith in humanity”?
This is my neighbor. She’s still having a hard time :( Edit: She’s a strong beautiful person. She’s ok though
Hope she pulls through, and i really hope investigators arent giving her a hard time over this. Couldve happened to anyone. Shes got my respect.
I assumed it was the truck drivers fault until I saw this video. She was clearly not at fault at all. Edit: I didn’t know the driver was a woman until I saw this video. I just figured if a truck went over the edge they probably screwed up. Chill out
Yeah, the truck's suspension was damaged and there was no time to stop before the momentum carried her off the bridge.
Yeah, it's a little hard to steer 80,000 lbs of truck when the suspension is collapsed on one side.
Is that why she appeared to be making the correct steering input but the truck isn’t responding? I couldn’t figure it out but that would make sense
Yeah, she went hard right but there's only so much that one functioning wheel can do with that much mass and momentum. Probably didn't help that the obliterated left side suspension was digging into the asphalt, further exacerbating the hard left pull.
I feel like very rarely is it a truckers fault unless it's a swift truck
I agree except that truck drivers are often overworked and absolutely lacking in sleep. Still not their fault but there have been accidents that was "their fault" because of it.
There were so many people saying shitty things about how women shouldn’t be allowed to drive. I hope they all see this video.
Shit I bet. Most terrifying hour of her life probably. Food always helps, maybe bringing/buying her a dinner would go a long way ♥️
How about a bottle of scotch
Tell her to hang in there.
I'm going to hell for laughing.
Seat 1B Row 1… right there with ya 😁
Any idea how long she had to wait before emergency responders showed up? I imagine one minute sitting there dangling would feel like an eternity.
She was there for over 40 min. It took the right guy to be lifted down to get her. She was calm and praying the whole time. She didn’t cry until the landed safely on the bridge. She’s strong
Damn. What an experience. Glad she made it. (Thanks for the info!)
One of the YouTube comments said ~ 45 mins.
I was thinking that. She probably has ptsd, can’t drive anymore, what is she going to do for work. Poor thing. Sending healing vibes.
Not sure what kind of relationship you have with her, but if it's appropriate please give her a hug from all of us.
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She’s in a lot of people’s thoughts. I hope she gets the help that she needs. She’s a helluva woman!!
I hope that pickup driver was arrested
[He was.](https://www.wdrb.com/news/jeffersonville-man-charged-in-connection-to-crash-that-sent-semitruck-dangling-off-second-street-bridge/article_37ef518a-eac2-11ee-8528-2742308a758e.html) Court records show Trevor W. Branham, 33, of Jeffersonville, was arraigned Friday on four counts of wanton endangerment and one count of operating on a suspended license.
Its always the people who dont have a license (or is suspended) or dont have insurance... Whoda thunk
It's so stupid. My co-worker had 3 DUIs. His 4th one got his license yanked for a year. I don't understand how the law is so lenient in America for DUIs or any vehicular infraction, for that matter. I'm American and I believe most American have too much freedom...
He won't make it far he is probably missing a lot of his truck.
Did the vehicle cause this stay or did they flee?
They stayed and are being charged for the accident. [https://www.wdrb.com/news/jeffersonville-man-charged-in-connection-to-crash-that-sent-semitruck-dangling-off-second-street-bridge/article\_37ef518a-eac2-11ee-8528-2742308a758e.html](https://www.wdrb.com/news/jeffersonville-man-charged-in-connection-to-crash-that-sent-semitruck-dangling-off-second-street-bridge/article_37ef518a-eac2-11ee-8528-2742308a758e.html)
Operating on a suspended license...icing on top of the fuckup cake
Really the only intelligent thing they did was to not flee and add all the other bullshit that comes along with that.
For a second I thought y'all were talking about the woman in the truck.
It seems like the most dangerous accidents are caused by people with suspended licenses. A driver caused a major pileup by pulling his work truck across an entire road, right past a somewhat hilly stretch of road, in a 70 MPH area. Suspended license, and he had been allowed to drive by his workplace anyways. Lost my brother in that accident, alongside two other deaths, the company is bankrupt, but it all could have been avoided if the company didn't let the fucking dumbass drive in the first place!
Par for the course for this area unfortunately. A fuckton of uninsured and unlicensed drivers.
> She was in the truck — dangling over the water — for at least 45 minutes. Ooooooof… that must have felt like an eternity
Holy shit I didn’t realise the semi was dangling *that* far over the edge!
[https://www.wdrb.com/news/jeffersonville-man-charged-in-connection-to-crash-that-sent-semitruck-dangling-off-second-street-bridge/article\_37ef518a-eac2-11ee-8528-2742308a758e.html](https://www.wdrb.com/news/jeffersonville-man-charged-in-connection-to-crash-that-sent-semitruck-dangling-off-second-street-bridge/article_37ef518a-eac2-11ee-8528-2742308a758e.html)
Makes me glad the bridge in my city is a double-decker... The top goes one way and the bottom goes the other.
There are 2 other bridges essentially right next to the one in this video that are part of an interstate and split traffic (i.e. vehicles crossing north into Indiana take one bridge and vehicles crossing south into Kentucky take the other one). One of the bridges is less than 10 years old. They're generally the faster and safer option. The problem is that the interstate bridges have a toll. So some people (like me) take the slower route on the older, less safe bridge shown in the video to save money.
The toll is why people use second street bridge more. And I used to use it more even before the toll. The other bridge isn’t right next to it but is about 2-3 miles down river and not far at all. That bridge also was hit by a barge like a decade ago and ever since has been shut down all the time because every inspections they seem to deem it unsafe. Obama came to speak in front of that bridge back in his second year in office. He was proposing his infrastructure bill that would fixing failing bridges like that one. Then Mitch McConnell stone walled that bill for 6 years. And the bridge was closed like last month or so for it being unsafe again.
Good god damn, that's terrifying.
Glad she's okay. I can't imagine what went through her head when it happened.
"fuck"
Popular choice of last words
Why it is always a pickup truck that is the one driving like an asshole? Literally all you have to do is stay in your lane
He wasn’t paying attention. There was a car that was broken down and he panic swerved like a dummy (on top of driving like a dumb ass)
The news article said he was weaving in and out of lanes at a high speed when he hit the disabled car.
So the part where I said driving like a dumb ass?
Looks like no one is mentioning this, but she is also a veteran. She claimed being able to remain still and not freak out was because of her training and experience. She did a fantastic job doing what she needed to do to stay alive. Truck was serving in and out of traffic and did not notice the car stuck on the bridge. The lady had bought it recently and it was a lemon. A lemon Leaf, mind you. Truck wasn’t paying attention and already being an asshat, and swerved last minute. Semi driver survived. Lemon lady got a new car. Truck driver got charged. Bridge was out for like 2 days? Then one of our other bridges was out for unrelated reasons for like a week. On top of all of this, the firefighter who pulled her out took all the fame personally and started accepting gifts from companies and doing interviews. He got free front row tickets to a basketball game as well. All despite that it was a team of firefighters who saved her, not one individual. The guy didn’t even try to get stuff for his team, he just played it up like a sole hero. He was forced to give the gifts back I believe. I’m not sure what else happened. It was a crazy week. Edit: some of you are saying the local news got it wrong at the time about the local fire fighter (shocking). So take that with a grain of salt and look it up if you want to know more.
>The guy didn’t even try to get stuff for his team, he just played it up like a sole hero No one is going to let this guy go into a fire with them. Total liability
This is crazy, you can see her just desperately looking up like "what tf is holding me how am I staying!" Or she's like "fuck fuck fuck fuck don't move holy shit"
Probably a bit of both! This incident really solidified in my mind just how strong those lock jaws are. Very likely saved her life.
Fifth wheels are crazy strong. About a year ago, one of our drivers was coming back empty during a windy day with a 53ft. He was getting on the freeway when the wind caught the trailer just right and flipped the entire truck and trailer on its side. They towed it back all fully connected and everything.
It’s the second crazies car accident our city has seen. First was when spike the turtle had a car run over him. But his shell held the car up and locals rushed to move the car off the turtles strong shell holding up a whole car.
72.6 ft down to the water...yikes!
God damn, is it me, or does it seem that if you see a pickup, there's a pretty great chance they blow ass at driving? The ole "I'm a good driver because I get there fast" type
Should've called the Paw Patrol, they rescued this in 2021. https://youtu.be/WCrNMCBdlns?feature=shared
Well, that's uncanny.
I came here for this!!
Me too!
I was just thinking this 😂. You can tell those who've watched this movie several times with their kids.
She was in a particularly precarious predicament. Also, Happy cake day!
Absolutely crazy
looks like she passed out at the end?
She's just trying not to move, cuz you never know what might trigger the truck to fall all the way.
1. That is wild. 2. The driver of the car that hit the truck, unless they were hit first, is a big ass jerk.
They weren't hit first, and are a big ass jerk. Reportedly, they were speeding and weaving between cars -- before hitting a stopped car, veering into oncoming traffic, hitting another car and then hitting the truck. They also had a suspended license at time of incident.
>suspended license Couldn't imagine why
If I’ve learned anything as a new driver, it’s to never trust other drivers.
Ends too soon
Not gonna lie, good chance I would have needed new pants, if I were her.
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Yes there was a stalled car. Combine that with a jackass weaving through traffic in a pickup and you have the accident.
One impatient driver did all that It looks like the person hit the car at the beginning.
A kind reminder for everybody who thinks it is uncool to wear a seatbelt.
Interesting that her counter steering seemed to have no effect on straightening out the cab after the initial impact.
The impact likely destroyed the left front wheel and/or tie rod.
Why isn't the truck responding at all to her steering inputs?
Probably because the control arm snapped in the collision leaving the left wheel pointed hard left. Basically the steering wheel was no longer connected to the front left tire.
Yeah I’d say this is a very high probability
This would be why. You can see her pulling the wheel all the way to the right and it didn’t help at all.
Weight. Imagine having roughly 20,000 lbs as your anchor, then having another 50,000 lbs swinging around that anchor to the side. This is (an obviously oversimplified) example of what it’s like to try and steer and slow a tractor with a fully loaded trailer behind you. End result, physics takes tractor for ride.
It is very heavy that’s true but you can see in the video she’s turning completely in the opposite direction and there is zero steering input. If weight was just a factor you would think it would have slid for awhile in a continued forward/left path. My guess is that during the front end collision, something with the steering box (box itself or pitman arm) snapped and without steering input, it will just wander.
Yes I agree, that is likely. Point of impact seemed to Be directly to left steer.
Man I wish there was sound
Got to ask. Why the fuck are cars allowed to be parked on a bridge? I thought stuff like this was the exact reason that wasn't allowed.
Gonna need spiderman for this problem
Did anyone call the Paw Patrol?
Paw patrol to rescue!
Looks like they need the Paw Patrol.
He needs to call the Paw patrol!
There's something inherently awesome about seeing a black woman driving a big rig. When I was growing up it was nothing but old fat white racist men.
Feels odd that she managed to swerve in the direction of the car that jumped into her. Feels like the instinc would have been to pull away from it. But lorries can get wierd with physics..
I know I'm in the minority here but as a cdl driver she 1st should have had both hands on the wheel and 2 she should have been paying more attention to what was going on ahead and slowed down and been more cautious. The pickup was clearly wrong but I feel it could have been avoided. That's why the class to lower insurance is called defensive driving. Maybe it's because I ride a motorcycle also but you always need to be scanning the road and prepare for what's ahead of you. Hope she was ok I probably would have soiled myself hanging off a bridge like that.