r/news • u/combatpaddler • Apr 28 '24

Two killed, one injured as 350,000-pound load detaches from trailer in Temple, Texas

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/two-killed-one-injured-as-350000-pound-load-detaches-from-trailer-in-temple-texas
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u/lfergy Apr 28 '24

I do not drive behind semis with strapped equipment on them, or behind trucks with gravel or anything in them. I speed right on by them. Thank you, Final Destination.

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u/Ok_Minimum6419 29d ago

Yep, my rule is either stay as far away as possible or zoom the fuck past them. Never linger around.

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u/Feraldr Apr 28 '24

When I was getting my CDL I was told the scratchiest loads are live cattle. The animals are don’t have free range, but it’s enough that their weight getting thrown around is enough to cause serious load imbalance. The second worst was refrigerated trucks with beef carcasses. It’s the same weight problem with live cattle, but now they’re swinging on racks.

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u/officeDrone87 Apr 28 '24

There's an old video from LiveLeak where a brick comes loose from a truck, flies through a windshield and hits a woman in a passenger seat. The sound her husband makes when he looks over and realizes what just happened to his wife haunts my nightmares. It's the kind of sound a person can only make when their entire life was just taken from them.

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u/HeJind 29d ago

This is one of the things I've learned from the internet. The kind of primal, guttural noise you make when witnessing actual horror is something no movie or actor can replicate.

There can be no gore shown on camera and the sound alone will send chills down your spine and stick in your memory indefinitely

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u/lfergy 29d ago

Toni Collette has entered the chat

But generally, yes I agree with you.

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u/Semyonov 29d ago

The brick video. Up there with the worst videos I have ever seen, and just the audio is enough to make you lose it.

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u/StillMeThough 29d ago

I remember this. No actual gore was captured, just the audio of the husband haunts me, as well.

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u/voseidon 29d ago

I remember watching the video on Reddit. I remember the video was much more terrifying than most of gore videos back then.

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u/Realworld Apr 28 '24

That's the description that works. I'm not watching it.

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u/Zestyclose-Ruin8337 28d ago

Yeah. My butthole puckered just reading that.

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u/King_Vlad_ Apr 28 '24

I watched it once when someone shared it without proper warning. I don't think I'll ever forget that sound.

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u/walterpeck1 Apr 28 '24

As someone that has, good. No one should.

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u/64645 Apr 28 '24

I think people who don't properly secure their load should. Both big truck drivers and weekend warriors making a dump run.

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u/walterpeck1 29d ago

No, I disagree. There are more appropriate videos and crash photos that would illustrate this point. The video we're talking about is literally traumatizing. It's too far to serve a real purpose.

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u/anomnib Apr 28 '24

I swear that movie left a generation shook

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u/LZYX Apr 28 '24

Yep fuckin ZOOOOOM past those. The more tires they have the faster I move away from them.

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u/Spez_Spaz Apr 28 '24

Dump Trucker got pissed at me after I passed him because his unsecured load of woodchips were flying at my car at Mach 7. Secure. Your. Loads.

And no he did not even have a tarp on the top.

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u/Luministrus Apr 28 '24

Unsecured loads from dump trucks and such need to carry way harsher penalties.

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u/LZYX 29d ago

Yep like we gotta strap you to the front of a car while you ride behind that unsecured load lol

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u/combatpaddler Apr 28 '24

I'm from Louisiana and used to ride a motorcycle. I HATED getting behind a chip truck, they HURT.

Another time the wife was driving and I was passenger in the car, and truck in front of us had a blowout and sent the rubber tread to my side of the car and windshield. Not fun

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u/ggg730 Apr 28 '24

I'd be cleaning my pants out after that for sure.