Car Hits Pepsi Truck - Truck jumps divider

Started by Monster Dave, May 28, 2010, 01:01:32 PM

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badgalbetty

Truck drivers worst nightmare.......... as well as every other road user. I am very happy that no one was killed.I drove truck for a lot of years , doubles and triples.
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Turf

Quote from: kopfjäger on May 28, 2010, 08:55:10 PM
You are correct, once again. I was looking at the black suv that went under the falling trailer. I think? the Cayenne may have hit the outside wall?

Yea, it's the silver one, i think they may have gotten away without any damage...most importantly look at that reaction time and swerve...impressive.
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orangelion03

Wow.

This is actually a nightmare of mine...I've had it many times.  The person in the black SUV must have been distracted and missed the whole thing because they just kept going.  Looks to me like the Cayenne driver slowed after his/her superhuman feat...probably looking at the disaster in their rear view mirror!
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red baron

That truck being empty had a lot to do with the outcome.
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fastwin

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Quote from: badgalbetty on May 29, 2010, 04:51:04 AM
Truck drivers worst nightmare.......... as well as every other road user. I am very happy that no one was killed.I drove truck for a lot of years , doubles and triples.

Bless you! [thumbsup] Lord knows you saw some stupid crap out there on the road. I never stopped being amazed at the BS I see four wheelers doing around trucks. [bang] Tail gating, whipping in front of them and hitting their brakes, you name it. My personal favorite is some damn fool running up the right side of tractor trailer swinging out to make a 90 degree right hand turn and getting squeezed. Worked a hundred of those wrecks! :P People just have no respect for trucks and what they can and can't do. They also don't realize every single thing they have, own, wear or eat came by a truck.

Anyway, glad you got out of the profession in one piece and are here to post up! [clap]

Speeddog

Quote from: trouble on May 29, 2010, 06:34:48 AM
That truck being empty had a lot to do with the outcome.

My thought as well.
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mdriver

Before this video I truly believed that the only reason to buy a Cayenne was as a lame attempt impress others. Now I see that it's actually to avoid being inconvenienced by others.
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Povidius

 :o

I'm glad no one got killed.  As amazing as it was to watch those cars get out of the way, it totally appears many of them just blindly swerved into other lanes to avoid that semi (not going to blame them for that!).  I'm just surprised more cars didn't take each other out while trying to get out of the way.

Turf

Quote from: Povidius on May 29, 2010, 08:48:56 PM
:o

I'm glad no one got killed.  As amazing as it was to watch those cars get out of the way, it totally appears many of them just blindly swerved into other lanes to avoid that semi (not going to blame them for that!).  I'm just surprised more cars didn't take each other out while trying to get out of the way.

Swerving into a car is better than a sideways semi head on

if it was lewis hamilton i'd criticize but being a reaction by your average driver, i'd have done the same thing.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

sleeperbold

Wow, that jersey wall totally lost the "Pepsi Challenge"  ;)

muskrat

the biggest risk here is people coming into your lane.  you wouldn't believe the idiots that do that  [bang]
wife and I took the geezer glider out yesterday and on our way home up the tollway we counted 11 people texting while driving.  because I'm so nice I pulled up to each one of them and reminded them, with exhaust note, to drive and loitered next to them blasting my exhaust.   [evil]
Can we thin the gene pool? 

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fastwin

 [laugh] [laugh] Yeah, but did the dumb asses even notice? You're dealing with the same slack jawed, mouth breathing troglodytes as the moron driving the Nissan!

Still impressed with the black SUV that went under the flying 18 wheeler. Bet he had some scrapes on his roof!! And the silver Porsche/VW SUV that swerved right at the last possible second. Had he been 2 seconds further down the road he would have wadded that puppy up into the truck cab assuredly killing the truck driver... wouldn't have done the SUV driver any good either! [bang] Good luck all around. [thumbsup]

r_ciao

Porsche  [thumbsup]
Porsche Cayenne   [bow_down]

I bet that driver left a spot on the seat. Wow!

Idiot drivers. Boo. [bang]
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Turf

Quote from: r_ciao on May 30, 2010, 05:59:54 PM

I bet that driver left a spot on the seat. Wow!

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

the_Journeyman

Either way, we know why kind of skidmarks the Cayenne driver has to deal with ~

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