Umm... did he just keep driving?

fell off, maybe? that or david copperfield was driving it

Pull over dude. Help the guy out, will ya?

>> ^brycewi19:
Pull over dude. Help the guy out, will ya?


Doesn't look like there's anywhere safe to pull in there, he certainly wouldn't want to stop on the outside of that corner.

Best he could do is pull over further along and then call it in.

What kind of car was taking the video? Police? Civilian?

At first I thought, "Oh good, at least he stayed on the road."

Then I thought, "..."

somebody should put *eia tag on this, the truck driver just won the darwin award...unless his break was broken or something

Invocations (eia) cannot be called by boksinx because boksinx is not privileged - sorry.

boksinx: Can you have a broke break? I know you can have have a broken brake, but not a break that's broken.

"Excuse me Sir, um, yeah, uh, your truck thing's gone all over on its side . . . umm, you might wanna get that looked at. Have a nice day!"

"I can't believe my dear wife Mary passed away. I just can't believe she's gone."

"I'm coming for ya, Mary!"

otherwise known as "Hey you're driving several tons of death at really high speed on windy roads - How about you slow the hell down before you get someone or your self killed!"

Given 30 second difference that trailer would have killed the people in the car filming.

Truck drivers suck on the open road.

For those who haven't driven fully-loaded trucks of that size down curvy mountain roads: Brakes are mostly useless on a hill like that. They may affect your speed a little, but they'll catch fire long before they stop you.

Proper use of downshifting is how truckers control their speed, and it is a lot harder than it seems. I'm guessing the problems this trucker had started way before that turn. It was definitely his responsibility to keep his speed under control, but by the time he saw the turn coming up there wouldn't have been anything he could have done about it.

All that is assuming he wasn't under the influence of course. Slowing a truck that heavy while traveling downhill can take miles (or a run-away ramp).

>> ^boksinx:
..unless his break was broken or something


Can't have a broke brake with air brakes. If there's no air, the brakes lock up. You aren't going anywhwere. Yeah, dude was going to WAY to fast for that hill; plus there should have been no reason for him ever to pass on the left, while going down hill. Even if another rig was in front of him (see below).

>> ^Schattdaddy:
What kind of car was taking the video? Police? Civilian?


I believe it was another big rig. Look at the elevation as compared to the rest of the cars on the road.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
>> ^Schattdaddy:
What kind of car was taking the video? Police? Civilian?

I believe it was another big rig. Look at the elevation as compared to the rest of the cars on the road.



It was something tall perhaps, but it slowed down very quickly which leads me to believe that it wasn't a heavy vehicle (could be a rig with no trailer, or maybe an empty U-Haul truck).

>> ^Psychologic:
Proper use of downshifting is how truckers control their speed

Not just downshifting, but special engine braking systems like Jake Brakes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_brake

If you've heard the loud jackhammer sounds from a truck going downhill, that's what it is.

sorry for the typo, obviously English is not my native language...lol

now my broke is braken...

>> ^Schattdaddy:
What kind of car was taking the video? Police? Civilian?


Could be one of the Google Earth cars.

I don't feel up to tracking down the URL for the video and newstory but I will give you the jest of it.

The vehicle filming is an 18 wheeler run by Schneider National.

The truck that wrecked lost control due to heavy breaking causing the contents of the trailer to shift. The truck then rolled over the guard railing and tumbled down the hill killing the driver.

It was later discovered after an investigating trooper reviewed the drivers log book that the man killed was a team driver and upon returning to the scene of the accident they found the body of his partner further down the hill in some brush. It was believed that the 2nd man had been asleep in the back of the cab when the accident occurred and had been thrown from the wreckage.

^ Thanks Hardtale -- that puts a grim new light on it.

I don't like this sort of thing being posted and having people laugh at it.

>> ^mram:
He wasn't ok...
Here is the news account of this wreck fron the Colfax,CA record.
Second victim pulled from Colfax big rig wreckage
By Jenna Nielsen, Journal Staff Writer
The body of a co-driver was extricated this morning by Cal Fire crews at the scene of Monday's big rig rollover crash near Colfax.
The body of a second man was found underneath debris Tuesday morning at the accident site of a big rig rollover near Colfax Monday, officials reported.
The man, whose name is not being released pending notification of his family, was reportedly a passenger in the big rig, which rolled into a guard rail spilling its load of recylced plastic down the embankment near the Magra Road exit on westbound Interstate 80, California Highway Patrol offi-cials reported.
The driver, who was trapped inside of the truck’s cab and was also killed in the accident, was re-portedly going 70 mph and passing another truck in the fast lane when he lost control and slid down an embankment, said CHP Officer Rich Ruiz.
“This morning, as the investigator was going over log books, (it was) determined there was possi-bly a co-driver involved,” Ruiz said.
Ruiz said investigators also have video footage of the accident, recorded by a device on a Wal-Mart truck, which the driver of the big rig was passing at the time of the accident.
“The driver of the WalMart truck was doing 55 mph, so we estimate the driver (of the big rig) was going 70 mph when he approached a curve and lost control. You see in the video the trailer starts to fishtail. When the driver tries to correct, he is sent over the guardrail.”
Battalion Chief Jeff Brand of Cal Fire said crews located the co-driver under the debris and extri-cated him this morning.
Brand said when the truck was overturned, the cab was torn off and wedged beneath the contents of the trailer and the trailer itself.
All westbound lanes were closed as a result of the accident, which occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. All lanes were opened by approximately 7:45 p.m., California Highway Patrol officials said.
Ruiz said the driver of big rig had only had his license for nine days.
http://trkrjim.blogspot.com/2008/09/big-rig-rollover.html

^sad. I agree with Deedub81.

*eia

Adding video to channels (Eia) - requested by jwray.