Tragic 69 Camaro Crash of the Year !!!!!!!

[eclassic-cars]

Jim...Please call me I am tired of leaveing messages!!!

Dave

[67L78conv]

Jim requested a few more pics of the accident be posted.

[sYc]

It looks like he was towing with a one ton, four door dually. If that is the case, that car, on an open trailer, could be loaded on the tongue, on the back, anyhwere, and not be a problem. And even if the trailer brakes were not working, would still stop in a reasonable distance.

As per the ball, my guess it snapped when the trailer jacknifed, hitting the truck. Just think of the force that would create (leverage) when that occurred.

[BUIZILLA]

where is the load leveler bars and friction sway control bar? where they on there??

I had that EXACT truckn and I can tell you 100% without those it WILL come around on you... that thing sits high on the chassis anyway, and has little tires, when the nose dives, the trailer nose rises up, and swings things around... I have an employee that just had this happen to and he flipped a tow rig on I95 just south of Melbourne Fla

[72-SS-L48]

Did he tow with load leveling sway bars on the hitch? They look like these.





Second, did the airbags deploy in the truck?

-Dave

[firstgenaddict]

THE SAFETY CHAINS IN THESE PICTURES WON'T STOP CRAP FROM HAPPENING!

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Did he tow with load leveling sway bars on the hitch? They look like these.





Second, did the airbags deploy in the truck?

-Dave

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[firstgenaddict]

You might as well attach the chains with PAPERCLIPS!

[72-SS-L48]

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THE SAFETY CHAINS IN THESE PICTURES WON'T STOP CRAP FROM HAPPENING!

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Did he tow with load leveling sway bars on the hitch? They look like these.





Second, did the airbags deploy in the truck?

-Dave

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I was more concerned with whether the trailer in the accident had those leveling sway bars. I know when towing a U-haul for example verses our enclosed 24ft, those sway bars make a huge difference.

However, now that you bring attention to the safety chains, I will look into replacing them with heavy duty chains. Although as previously mentioned, in the God forsaken event that tragedy does strike while you are towing, I don't know how much HD chains would help. I guess I just never want to find out. Moral of the story, drive safe, slow, and continuously check over the trailer, tow vehicle, and vehicle being towed while on the road.

-Dave

[Tarrytown SS427s]

I don't think the rating of the truck has anything to do with it. The placement of the car is going to have a direct affect on the tongue weight, which will have an impact on weight on the rear suspension of the truck regardless of the truck's rating. When we got our enclosed a few years ago we were very careful with setting up the full load tongue weight. I could roll the car an inch forward or back and completely change the weight on the tongue scale. What it came down to was loading each car in and finding the perfect vehicle position over the axles, and then marking the position of each car. I know it was said that everything was done correct and by the books, but we are all human. Maybe the car actually wasn't correctly loaded over the axles prior to leaving.. There are so many variables to this, we'll probably never know the answer.

[REMIX]

Wow, very sad. No matter, this fellow is very, very lucky to be able to tell his story. Glad he is okay.

RMX