I don't understand why log trucks have not yet been made illegal. Everyone I've ever met shares the same fear that a rampant tree trunk will fly off the tractor trailer and impale whatever lies in its path. Proponents of truck drivers might try to convince the world that everything's totally save! Everything's fantastic! We even use rope to tie the hunks of heavy wood to the truck while we're going 85mph down a winding Georgia highway!
Back to my near death experience. I was driving back to Milledgeville today on GA 441 and it's usually a pretty quiet trip. Not too many cars, just a lot of ugly road construction workers and dumpy southern towns. For a good five minutes I was following this giant ass tractor trailer with a shit load of log/tree material. Needless to say, the bulk of it was attached poorly. Being the cautious individual I am, I slowed down and watched several other cars fill the gap between the the truck and me. Not ten minutes later, after the tractor trailer past my field of vision, I pass through an intersection where the the traffic lights had somehow malfunctioned and there was a huge wreck. I'm assuming the truck had to slow down too quickly and A LOG IMPALED A GREEN JEEP CHEROKEE. It had blasted directly through the front window and then through the driver's side window. I don't know for sure if anyone died but I'm not sure how someone wouldn't have in that car...
Had I kept following that truck, it could have very well been me. It just goes to show you that tractor trailers are dangerous methods of transportation and tree impalement is no joke.
Ohmygod!! That's so creepy -- just yesterday Morgan and I were talking about how dangerous things that are attached me moving vehicles are... I'm glad you're a smart driver.
ReplyDeleteShania Twain was orphaned by logs (from a log truck) impaling her parents. Although this happened in Alaska, where I'm sure this happens to half of the families, it has terrified me since I was a 5 year old.
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