Wednesday, July 25, 2012

TEXAS PICK UP TRUCK CRASH: How MANY people can a Pick- Up Hold? ... Remember to check your tire's AIR PRESSURE (Defensive Driving Course? PT.3)

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This Part 3 of "Defensive Driving Course?" is just a local pick- up truck crash in Texas down Mexico way, but reason for posting this, is because the death toll now is 15 of the pick- up's 23 passenger's, so when I first heard this yesterday on the radio while cruisin down LBJ Frwy here in North Dallas ... I thought I must have heard it "wrong" ... must be a "mistake" (?) ... I mean ... I was thinking when hearing it ... "Wait a minute ... how in the fuck do you get 23 people in a pick- up?" ... and mind you, I drove some of those big industrial/ commercial size pick- up's at that! ... and frankly I dont know how in Hell I could get 20 something passenger's in it! ... Geeeezzz!

It is also said that it may have been caused from inadequate tire air pressure, I naturally out of habit look at my tire's every bloody time I get in a vehicle, but can tell you that this will definitely throw a vehicle off with this type of load. I dont know man, but this is fucked up!




***** CBS News: 15th person dies after truck crash in Texas ... (newsread)




Death Toll in Goliad truck wreck at 14 ... Thanx to KXAN **** that's up to 15 today






***** RCJ: "DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE?" PART'S 2 & 1




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5 comments:

  1. Infidel753July 25, 2012 at 11:00 AM

    How could it have had inadequate tire pressure -- there must have been at least one person stuffed into each tire to fit so many people in one truck -- hell, they probably had somebody in the glove compartment.....

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  2. DemeurJuly 25, 2012 at 2:29 PM

    Well let's do the math. That's a 3/4 ton pick up which is 1500 lb. max load. If each guy weighed 200 lb. then that's 3000 lbs. Must have had them stacked in like cord wood.

    And ya think maybe they had the wrong tires on that rig. Two ply belted just wouldn't cut it for that load.

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  3. DemeurJuly 25, 2012 at 2:31 PM

    oops I forgot about the other eight guys.

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  4. Ranch ChimpJuly 25, 2012 at 7:37 PM

    Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh ... Thanx Demeur for the math run down, havent figured it out myself, I was just amazed alone that so many got in that damn ole truck! : )

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  5. Ranch ChimpJuly 25, 2012 at 7:40 PM

    You got me Infodell, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh : ) ... I seen a COPS tele show video once of Dallas cop's pulled over a car here in town, and the car had a few folk's stuffed in the trunk curled up, because the car was full : )

    Thanx for your input Infodell ....

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