Truck Cabin Smashed by Steel Pipes in Toll Booth Accident

[kellyhound]

[William May]

He might have survived that. Looks like it is a tilt-cab, that rotated forward. The pipes seem to have gone off to the side. Hopefully he just had a bad day, and walked away.

[LittleNightmare]

[durt]

Tubal ligation

[gimlet]

In China, pipes smoke you!

Flames are rising at the end...

[woodsetton]

My father was driving a HGV with pipes like this and had to stand on his brakes when some stupid bitch pulled out in front of him and then stopped. Luckily he had a really big board behind the cab and had secured them very well but he said he still heard them move towards him. He nearly punched the woman when he got out to check the load as for a few seconds he thought he might not have made it back home. The woman was totally clueless.

[William May]

Originally Posted by woodsetton

My father was driving a HGV with pipes like this and had to stand on his brakes when some stupid bitch pulled out in front of him and then stopped. Luckily he had a really big board behind the cab and had secured them very well but he said he still heard them move towards him. He nearly punched the woman when he got out to check the load as for a few seconds he thought he might not have made it back home. The woman was totally clueless.

There is a film clip in the 1950's series "Bloody Asphalt" where a pipe truck had an accident, and the pipes went through the cab. It was the driver's first day at work, and there was no stop rack on the back of the cab. They filmed as he was removed from the wreckage, and he took his last breath as they laid him on the stretcher. (This was a professional film company hired by the State of Ohio to go and film accident scenes along with first responders, so the camera-work and film quality is first rate, and they are right in the scene, not filming from a distance.) Their goal was to make scare films for driver education. They kind of pre-dated DR in filming deaths. These films are still available on DVD and make interesting viewing. The first real "Death Films" as far as I know.
(Hey, Chris! Maybe they could be loaded on here, in a section titled "Old Safety Films". There are a bunch of them, including industrial safety films, that are out there on the free-range. Need to round them up and put them in one corral!)