This was about as close to dying as I care to get for a while. We were going north on US 95, just past I-40, at 2am when a truck coming the other way veered into our lane. Tony swerved all of the way over onto the unpaved shoulder and managed to avoid a fatal head-on collision, but we were still hit. The other truck pushed the driver's mirror through the window, sending a shower of glass and mirror parts flying through the cab, and then broadsided our trailer and destroyed the tandems. His truck then swerved into terrain off the side of the road and flipped over. We thought he was dead, but he walked away. Tony was injured by broken glass, but aside from that, everyone is OK.
The other driver did not comprendo the English. He told police, in Spanish, that a front tire blew out, but they sure don't look blown to me. I think the asshole fell asleep while driving. The white truck is, of course, ours. The tow truck driver said that the brakes on the other truck were caged, which means that someone had disabled the emergency and parking brake systems. This is an extremely dangerous thing to do, and is normally done so that a trailer can be parked when there is a massive leak in the air brake system. This mutherfucker was driving it that way! There's more to say about people who have no business operating trucks, but I'll just show ya the pics.
-d
The other driver did not comprendo the English. He told police, in Spanish, that a front tire blew out, but they sure don't look blown to me. I think the asshole fell asleep while driving. The white truck is, of course, ours. The tow truck driver said that the brakes on the other truck were caged, which means that someone had disabled the emergency and parking brake systems. This is an extremely dangerous thing to do, and is normally done so that a trailer can be parked when there is a massive leak in the air brake system. This mutherfucker was driving it that way! There's more to say about people who have no business operating trucks, but I'll just show ya the pics.
-d
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