We Have a New Exit Off the Highway...into the Parking Lot.

[RetailWorkhorse]

"Jeez guys, don't eat those breakfast burritos anymore, hurr hurr."

I choked, spit, AND inhaled lemonade. Thank you for that, by the by.

Now I have to go cry over the Semi-Truck being broked-ed. (I LOVE SEMI TRUCKS)
Glad the Trucker is okay.

[Kittish]

Holy cow! Glad the driver is ok! And another nod to seatbelts FTW!

I think that's the most messed up truck I've seen in a long while, and I spent 5 years driving the things. Must have been one of the guy's front tires that blew.

[Lots42]

What could a flagger do that the huge amount of emergency vehicles were not already doing?

"Geeze, honey, thank god there was a guy standing around waving things, else I might have T-Boned one of the eight different ambulances."

[Geek King]

"DEPLOY EMERGENCY PANTS."

"In the thousands of scenarios I've run through in my head, I've not found one where Emergency Pants would not be useful." -Torg, Sluggy Freelance

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Seatbelts FTW.

Amen to that.

I'm so glad that in all the years my dad has been driving trucks, he's never had a bad accident like that.

Worst he's had to my knowledge was when an older guy with a Cadillac turned and hit the side of Dad's trailer (this was several years ago . . .like two days after he decided to go back on a route after 7 years inside the terminal as a dispatcher.)

To make matters worse, the guy told the officer that he thought he was turning in the right land . . . and Dad's truck was in the left lane of the westbound side of the road.

Needless to say, Dad wasn't charged with that accident.

[vikingchyk]

I like how the news story local affiliate's website captions the video with "Truck jumps off bridge" like it was out base jumping or something...

[Willis]

That SC sounds like he was just too caught up in the moment. Trying to be a chief when the situation is already being taken care of by people who get paid to take care of such situations.

[Andara Bledin]

And that, children, is why we wear our seatbelts.

^-.-^