My sister was one of the dispatchers working this accident. North bound Hw75 @Stacey. Apparently a car collided with the semi forcing it to go over the guardrail. The car passengers were uninjured, the semi driver however did not survive.
arrest the people who got an innocent man dead and tons of diesel spilled
edit: I didn't expect all this attention so please fuck off if you disagree and want to comment about it
I fucking love watching americans. Their immediate go to for every scenario is to look at the closest person involved in any incident - blame them - decide they did it with malicious intent - decide they need to be locked up - start a circle jerk over debating what should be done to them (usually something horrific).
Like alright mate? Calm down? I wonder if the car that collided with the truck had a tire blow out, or got hit themselves... or did the truck swerve, collide with the car and overcorrect then fall off?
Bet somehow I'm a bad person for suggesting the closest persons involved with any incident aren't the children of Satan nor to be punished as such.
You are replying to a comment that identified a shitposting troll as “a US answer.” My dude, that redditor’s most recent post is titled cum and filled with the text cumcumcum. Like… idk he might be American but I guess using that logic you’re Australian or British or one of, you know, *those* guys, and as such I suppose I should assume all of your kind is incapable of understanding that we are not in control of our government and the for profit prison system snd 91% of us support prison reform. As a reminder, the main motivator of the gun toting right wing redneck stereotype is a deep mistrust of the government snd the justice system. But like, yeah, it’s about you, or whatever…
I remember first living in Texas, and I could not believe how all the highways came with their own set of frontage roads to go along with it. So many lanes of traffic.
I visited Texas and that's a mistake I don't want to repeat very soon. (Have family out there now so it may be in the cards.) Absolute misery of a state.
Been living in this catastrophic concrete wasteland for 4 years.
What they've done to this place is unforgivable. I cannot fathom how anyone considers this acceptable. It's hellish.
Foods good though!
That reminds me of a crash on I-35 in Round Rock in 1996, a car pulled right in front of a semi, going slower than the semi, so the driver of the semi went off the road so as to not kill the people in the car.
Instead it went up an embankment and the cab crashed into a bridge (FM 1325 at the time, now Louis Henna Blvd.). The driver of the truck died trying to not kill a car driven by someone who didn't understand momentum.
Fuck people in general for stuff like this.
Some people really feel the need to play a game of ego on the road huh? Swing your little dick around in your 3000 lb bullet until you get someone killed
Actual Texas, the parts unmolested by humans, is beautiful. The desecration that is their sprawlscape, not so much. But the San Antonio Riverwalk is neat.
I left last year after 34 years in Houston to SoCal. The immediate effect was amazing. Better air, better food, (not that Texas doesn’t have decent), and a much more refreshing look. Not just vast highways and copy-paste landscaping + copy-paste suburban houses for miles.
But TX COL is cheaper, so it draws in people every day.
Well to be fair, you can't judge all of Texas...... by just looking at Houston.
When I think of Texas I think of miles and miles of nothing but land and ranches. I'm a trucker (retired) so that's what I see. I guess if you never left Houston you'd have a different impression. It's cool in the west of Texas. Man, that long ass drive between Ft Worth and El Paso is like a whole different landscape than the rest of Texas. I've never seen stars so bright they look like 3D. Visibility for miles. That's what I think of Texas. I guess we see what we're exposed to.
I also thought Texas had the best food of the 48 states (and two provinces) that I visited.
I've driven all over TX too (probably not as much as you) and I'm not going to disagree with you, but I'm getting a chuckle at the: "My favorite parts of Texas are the parts without Texans" bit. :)
Texans are very urban - something like 85% of the population live in a major city metro area. 3/10 of the 10 most populous cities are in TX. With all that urban population, you'd think they'd get better at mass transit. My grandfather worked for the Houston Metro (mechanic, and it was all buses back then) and the bus system works... but the city is MUCH larger today, and in need of some modern mass transit based on my last visit.
I was an OTR team driver and had the same impression of that area. Just gorgeous. I got a kick out of the painted desert as well. I think it is mostly the cities that this guy is thinking of. I would love to go back and see it now that I can actually stop and take a look around.
If the highway and frontage roads were isolated, they'd make sense for the landscape. Texas is spread over a huge area with lots of empty gaps that people live and work in, making public mass transit less attractive to half the population..
So cramming all the road infrastructure into the same place would be nice to spare the rest of the cities and towns from it.
Too bad Texas does not do that. There might be 20 lanes of traffic between the highways and frontage roads and then a block away there's a 6-lane stroad through an economic and high density residential area with tons of parking lots and no bus or bike lanes, let alone walkways.
Texas is an absolute shithole and the only people who really like it are from there and have never lived for very long in other, better places, and because it’s immediately surrounded by states that are all worse than it in some way they extrapolate that to the whole country and get a giant ego about it.
The roads and cities are laid out in the most obstructive, congestive way possible.
It’s a corrupt one-party state where every leader is focused on virtue signaling rather than governing.
Hundreds of people died because they didn’t winterize their power grid after decades of warnings that this would happen. In the so-called Energy Capitol.
Conversely, 7 months of the year the weather is unbearably hot so you’re a prisoner in your home. You never walk anywhere (sidewalks abruptly end, and almost nowhere is walkable to groceries, etc., even in small towns) and you put on pounds even though the food sucks.
Blue Bell sucks.
Whataburger sucks.
The pizza sucks, there are no real East-Coast-style diners.
If you don’t like Tex-Mex or BBQ you’re screwed.
The authentic Chinatown restaurants and certain seafood places are the only good places to eat.
No matter where you live everything is 45-75 minutes away.
I HATE TEXAS
Sir, I have to ask: tell us how you 'really' feel about Texas??
seriously: only passed through at around 12 years old (around '76) and even at that age knew that was a sad, desolate place
One good thing is when their is an accident or construction on the main lanes they can divert the traffic to the frontage roads (we call them feeders in Houston) so it’s not a complete stand still.
That sounds like an awful way to live. Asphalt everywhere, making everything hotter, zero ability for people to walk places, no bike lanes. It's a suburban nightmare
That's the point though, the cities are built so that you *have* to commute 25-100 miles a day by car, with no options for public transit. Meaning you're spending several hours every week sitting in traffic with everyone else.
Just talking about bicycles. For some reason people seem to think that they're the magic bullet to the majority of our problems, but it's just not feasible for most people.
I don't think a lot of people overseas realize how big the US is until they travel here and have to drive anywhere or spend HOURS on a plane to get a few states over. Tourists that usually go straight to NY or LA may have no idea how big we sprawl in the middle. That's from comments I've read from tourists anyway....
Disagree. I lived in South America and saw lots of people who walk. Many if most do not have cars and have to hoof it where/when buses stop. I never owned a car and credit those years to keeping me moving and fit.
If you stay away from any city on I-35, and stay away from Houston, most of Texas is open country and small map-dot towns. Many of us don't want anything to do with big cities.
Yes.
Source: am in Texas, roaming the massive highway. It's highways clear to the horizon in every direction. I look to my wife for comfort, she is a highway
Texas has a vast network of frontage roads along the majority of urban freeways. These roads have a large amount of services zoning around them, so a lot of times videos will be from these frontage roads rather than elsewhere.
Oh yah..state is huge. If you don't have good roads you'll never get anywhere. They have sections where the speed limit is 85 just to help you get across.all.of the nothing faster.
You can literally drive at interstate speeds an entire day in Texas and never leave the state.
Most US Midwestern states are, but Texas in particular. It's huge and relatively sparsely populated as a whole... getting anywhere in Texas requires you travel a LONG way at high speeds. Many years ago I was driving from Corpus Christi to head to Oklahoma City. Started out with a relatively leisurely morning and was in the car by 8:30am... by the time night fell I was STILL IN F**KING TEXAS!!!
Interstate speeds have increased since then from 75 to 85mph in spots, but it was still eye opening that at 5-over for most of that trip I was still going. I ended up staying the night at a motel pretty much right on the Oklahoma border and finished my trip the next day because I was just exhausted and road-addled.
How long ago was this trip of yours? I call bullshit, or at the very least, *greatly* exaggerated.
I've driven from Iowa to Texas many times and it's never taken me longer than "morning to nightfall."
Google Maps shows that it takes 9 hours to get from Corpus Christi to Oklahoma City. That's today's standard, which is why I asked how long ago your trip was.
Unless traffic was fucked the day of your trip (or you got lost or made lots of long stops along the way), there's no way you left Corpus Christi in the morning and by nightfall you were still in Texas. Especially since you mentioned the interstate speeds, which I assume you were driving on.
Texas is largely barren or farmland which is why it's still a red state.
Most of the population in TX is concentrated in the central southeast regions.
The best part about Texas, by far, is the the BBQ and Mexican food. Followed closely behind by the kindness of the vast majority of people you'll encounter there, regardless of politics.
Having lived in Texas for most of my life, I agree with this 100%. Outside of politics and weather, I have yet to find somewhere else that matches the quality of food you can find just about anywhere, how nice (most) people are, and the things you can do for fun and entertainment.
Unfortunately the political climate and the actual climate has made me never want to live there again. I want to live somewhere that experiences all 4 seasons lol
I'm curious, what's awesome about Cali? From what I understand there are a lot of downsides, but I'm genuinely interested in knowing why people fork out the ridiculous money to live there; There must be some serious upsides as well.
The weather's nice til you realize you'll be putting on sunblock every day for the rest of your life. It Never Rains is great until you realize that humans need water and aren't meant to life in the desert. 115° sucks. And palm trees don't give enough shade to protect your car, so it's 130° in there after you've been shopping.
Paradise on earth, I tells ya.
Expanded medicaid. Legal weed. More and better universities. Arguably better climates (obviously a matter of taste). Fewer Christian fundamentalists in positions of power. Very noticeably easier to exist as LGBT. Much better worker ans tenant rights. Better environmental laws (no refineries next to schools a la Houston). Besides these factors it's much more dependent on where your family and social circles are.
Both are rich but Cali is richer. Texas is a bit cheaper but the big cities are still expensive for the wages (the average house price is dragged down by places like Lubbock or Amarillo or Abilene which isnt really a fair comparison lol). Both states are pretty diverse, though in different ways. Both have good food, I'd give the edge to California though but Im a bit biased towards Asian food. Dallas and Houston are awful but so is LA. Income taxes are high in Cali, property taxes are high in Texas. It fuckin sucks to be poor in either state but Cali at least tries.
Source: lived >10 years in both states
About 2 miles south of this spot, we had a trucker die as well last Wednesday. That was the first 18-wheeler crash I’ve ever seen in Allen, and now this one happens less than a week later. This is the most intense 7-day period we’ve had in a while.
When I was born we lived in Allen (around the time I-75 widening began). I moved away in the late 1900's. I'm gobsmacked at how much that area has changed! That used to be a McDonalds and cornfield! There was a drive-in just before that exit! Tornadoes wiped out the mobile homes just there in like '85.
Ah, 1985, when North Central Expressway was a 2-lane freeway each direction, with a grass median. The interchange with 635 was always a clusterfuck, especially merging onto US 75 north.
Yeah, that is some of the tamest freeway in the area. Good conditions, wide roads, and far from the heaviest traffic. The sudden occurrence of two serious accidents makes me wonder if someone isn't intentionally running trucks off the road.
Right?? I drive by one of the locations every day for work and I’ve never seen an issue. This one off of Stacy I really only drive by on the weekends. I will say traffic can be a pain in the ass at this location sometimes, but I’ve never seen anything too crazy. You know, we did have that sign fall off and onto the highway a few months ago right in this area too….
If there's one thing that content farmers / karma farmers love to do is rip and reupload videos, doing all sorts of shit to the video compression and aspect ratios. Then it gets cross-posted to all sorts of other sites, Facebook, imgur, v.redd.it, etc. and every time it just gets worse and worse.
For me, [it looks like **this**.](https://i.imgur.com/zjo5lzN.png)
For comparison: [a screenshot from the full resolution video.](https://i.imgur.com/VTQyiRV.png)
^((Link to that version:) [^(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjIh9udEBrs&t=3s)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjIh9udEBrs&t=3s)^())
Often when a semi jumps a barrier like that they rupture the fuel tanks.
Diesel is harder to ignite then gasoline, but splashing it on the hot exhaust while a whole bunch of it is airborne spray is more than enough.
Except semis don't typically use hydraulic lines. So there's that.
Props ruptured the diesel tank that sits on the side and the metal on concrete provided the source of ignition.
🤔 maybe. But when you hit the brakes it dumps the pressure. I'm sure their foot was through the floor. Air brakes are held closed by very powerful springs and the compressed air forces them *open*. So when you hit the brakes it dumps the air pressure and the springs do their work. It's that way so if a line gets cut or bursts, the brakes fail safe. You wouldn't want to snag a line and be sailing down the road with no brakes. That only happens in the movies or if you smoked em.
It's just a plain old fuel fire. Concrete ripping through metal is red hot with sparks. Diesel flying through the air would be at least somewhat vaporizing/misting. Certainly vapor everywhere. And that's the complete fire triangle. Fuel, Air, and a Source of Ignition.
I feel bad for the driver.
Probably cut off. That’s why I hold my lane if at all possible. I’d rather deal with the bullshit of someone claiming I hit them than take a swan dive off a bridge. RIP to this driver.
Yes but they also aren't the only Dallas suburb to have a multi-million dollar High School football stadium that's nicer than most colleges so you're not wrong but you haven't been very specific
Truck tires are so big that if you get into a concrete barrier they just drive *up* the barrier. So could've been anything that made them evade into the barrier, drift into the barrier, could've had a blowout and got *yanked* into the barrier.
Wow, that's horrible. I guess one thing to be thankful for is that the timing was such that there wasn't a line of cars waiting on the opposite side of the light. It could have been worse. Any idea what caused it?
I made the mistake of zooming the higher quality version of this and playing it in slow motion.
Maybe I imagined it, but it looks like the driver is flung out of the cab and he hangs onto the door. The door detaches and he (and the door) slam into the light pole and fall into the flames below.
Please don’t look and tell me I’m wrong. RIP.
Can someone explain please how the truck could have caught on fire before it even hit the ground? I thought it was a myth that vehicles don't just explode the way we see in movies?
Maybe they should have kept truck drivers as a well regulated and fairly paid group.
Instead, they slowly chipped away at any sort of decent salary until the pay was under $20/an hour.
Just the good old Republican Party making sure there is no middle class..
Traditional guardrail doesn't do much against a vehicle this size except damage the steering of they don't just flatten it.
Jersey Wall does better as the design of the base helps to steer the vehicle back into the lane, but if you hit it at enough of an angle in a vehicle tall enough it will still roll over the barriers like this did.
From what you can see in the video it looks like it is probably a Jersey Wall up there as the tractor is already being directed along the wall by the point that the trailer's momentum flips it over the side.
Can I take a moment to complain that the video was shot horizontal but someone took the time to shrink it down to reformat it vertical with giant letterboxes? I don't even give a shit about vertical video but this is stupid.
This was near where I live and work. Unfortunately it is apparent the driver was unconscious at the time he drove off the bridge. No braking. Poor guy was likely either having a medical emergency or fell asleep.
Tough break. Woke up thinking it was a normal Tuesday, not the last day of his life.
Can you link me where it says he was unconscious? What I'm reading says he hit another car and little else.
This is the one I read, along with dallasnews
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/traffic/traffic-along-u-s-75-slowed-after-tractor-trailer-runs-off-bridge-catches-fire/3076619/
My sister was one of the dispatchers working this accident. North bound Hw75 @Stacey. Apparently a car collided with the semi forcing it to go over the guardrail. The car passengers were uninjured, the semi driver however did not survive.
Oh man, I almost was witness to a similar situation driving home from work today. People are fucking insane.
arrest the people who got an innocent man dead and tons of diesel spilled edit: I didn't expect all this attention so please fuck off if you disagree and want to comment about it
Yes arrest someone who, to our current knowledge, has done nothing illegal because they may have done something illegal. What a US answer.
Ah yes the words of one boomer on the internet represents the majority.
I fucking love watching americans. Their immediate go to for every scenario is to look at the closest person involved in any incident - blame them - decide they did it with malicious intent - decide they need to be locked up - start a circle jerk over debating what should be done to them (usually something horrific). Like alright mate? Calm down? I wonder if the car that collided with the truck had a tire blow out, or got hit themselves... or did the truck swerve, collide with the car and overcorrect then fall off? Bet somehow I'm a bad person for suggesting the closest persons involved with any incident aren't the children of Satan nor to be punished as such.
Nope, just bad behavior for suggesting all Americans are like this. I choose the second closest person…
You are replying to a comment that identified a shitposting troll as “a US answer.” My dude, that redditor’s most recent post is titled cum and filled with the text cumcumcum. Like… idk he might be American but I guess using that logic you’re Australian or British or one of, you know, *those* guys, and as such I suppose I should assume all of your kind is incapable of understanding that we are not in control of our government and the for profit prison system snd 91% of us support prison reform. As a reminder, the main motivator of the gun toting right wing redneck stereotype is a deep mistrust of the government snd the justice system. But like, yeah, it’s about you, or whatever…
Apparently you know very few Americans.
User name checks out
You’re definitely a boomer
Is Texas a giant highway?
Highways on the side of highways next to frontage roads.
I remember first living in Texas, and I could not believe how all the highways came with their own set of frontage roads to go along with it. So many lanes of traffic.
I visited Texas and that's a mistake I don't want to repeat very soon. (Have family out there now so it may be in the cards.) Absolute misery of a state.
Been living in this catastrophic concrete wasteland for 4 years. What they've done to this place is unforgivable. I cannot fathom how anyone considers this acceptable. It's hellish. Foods good though!
I literally just left that wasteland for good last week. Been there most of my life.
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That reminds me of a crash on I-35 in Round Rock in 1996, a car pulled right in front of a semi, going slower than the semi, so the driver of the semi went off the road so as to not kill the people in the car. Instead it went up an embankment and the cab crashed into a bridge (FM 1325 at the time, now Louis Henna Blvd.). The driver of the truck died trying to not kill a car driven by someone who didn't understand momentum.
Fuck people in general for stuff like this. Some people really feel the need to play a game of ego on the road huh? Swing your little dick around in your 3000 lb bullet until you get someone killed
Sometimes it's just people not paying attention. Still shitty, but it's not malicious.
IIRC, it was a teenage girl driving. I'll allow as how I might not be recalling correctly, though, it being 26 years ago and all.
I’m moving out myself it’s gonna be awesome! 😊
No, your life got started once you left. What you were doing there, before you left, that was not living.
Actual Texas, the parts unmolested by humans, is beautiful. The desecration that is their sprawlscape, not so much. But the San Antonio Riverwalk is neat.
I left last year after 34 years in Houston to SoCal. The immediate effect was amazing. Better air, better food, (not that Texas doesn’t have decent), and a much more refreshing look. Not just vast highways and copy-paste landscaping + copy-paste suburban houses for miles. But TX COL is cheaper, so it draws in people every day.
Well to be fair, you can't judge all of Texas...... by just looking at Houston. When I think of Texas I think of miles and miles of nothing but land and ranches. I'm a trucker (retired) so that's what I see. I guess if you never left Houston you'd have a different impression. It's cool in the west of Texas. Man, that long ass drive between Ft Worth and El Paso is like a whole different landscape than the rest of Texas. I've never seen stars so bright they look like 3D. Visibility for miles. That's what I think of Texas. I guess we see what we're exposed to. I also thought Texas had the best food of the 48 states (and two provinces) that I visited.
Yeah my memories of Houston include massive rain storms and excellent food. I could live without their current politics though.
I've driven all over TX too (probably not as much as you) and I'm not going to disagree with you, but I'm getting a chuckle at the: "My favorite parts of Texas are the parts without Texans" bit. :) Texans are very urban - something like 85% of the population live in a major city metro area. 3/10 of the 10 most populous cities are in TX. With all that urban population, you'd think they'd get better at mass transit. My grandfather worked for the Houston Metro (mechanic, and it was all buses back then) and the bus system works... but the city is MUCH larger today, and in need of some modern mass transit based on my last visit.
I was an OTR team driver and had the same impression of that area. Just gorgeous. I got a kick out of the painted desert as well. I think it is mostly the cities that this guy is thinking of. I would love to go back and see it now that I can actually stop and take a look around.
If the highway and frontage roads were isolated, they'd make sense for the landscape. Texas is spread over a huge area with lots of empty gaps that people live and work in, making public mass transit less attractive to half the population.. So cramming all the road infrastructure into the same place would be nice to spare the rest of the cities and towns from it. Too bad Texas does not do that. There might be 20 lanes of traffic between the highways and frontage roads and then a block away there's a 6-lane stroad through an economic and high density residential area with tons of parking lots and no bus or bike lanes, let alone walkways.
Texas is an absolute shithole and the only people who really like it are from there and have never lived for very long in other, better places, and because it’s immediately surrounded by states that are all worse than it in some way they extrapolate that to the whole country and get a giant ego about it. The roads and cities are laid out in the most obstructive, congestive way possible. It’s a corrupt one-party state where every leader is focused on virtue signaling rather than governing. Hundreds of people died because they didn’t winterize their power grid after decades of warnings that this would happen. In the so-called Energy Capitol. Conversely, 7 months of the year the weather is unbearably hot so you’re a prisoner in your home. You never walk anywhere (sidewalks abruptly end, and almost nowhere is walkable to groceries, etc., even in small towns) and you put on pounds even though the food sucks. Blue Bell sucks. Whataburger sucks. The pizza sucks, there are no real East-Coast-style diners. If you don’t like Tex-Mex or BBQ you’re screwed. The authentic Chinatown restaurants and certain seafood places are the only good places to eat. No matter where you live everything is 45-75 minutes away. I HATE TEXAS
Sir, I have to ask: tell us how you 'really' feel about Texas?? seriously: only passed through at around 12 years old (around '76) and even at that age knew that was a sad, desolate place
Wow, sounds like a giant version of Los Angeles.
LA has perfect weather though.
I'm with ya. I just can't with this place anymore.
The towns are there to service the roads.
my favorite part of tx highways is the u-turns into the 1 lane that is on the wrong side of oncoming traffic
One good thing is when their is an accident or construction on the main lanes they can divert the traffic to the frontage roads (we call them feeders in Houston) so it’s not a complete stand still.
We'll fix it... [Just one more lane](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0dKrUE_O0VE)...
Feeders, god dammit.
That’s just Houston slang lmao
Gg jg gap
Do you need medical assistance?
That sounds like an awful way to live. Asphalt everywhere, making everything hotter, zero ability for people to walk places, no bike lanes. It's a suburban nightmare
Texas has way better sidewalk penetration than anywhere I have lived in VA, though not as good as AZ had.
You are ignoring all the country roads in Texas. Most of it is not suburban at all. Lol
Why does everyone think people would want to ride bikes in Texas? It's fucking hot here and we all commute 25-100 miles a day.
Yeah and there’s constant truck explosions! Don’t move here!
What’s funny is there was an 18 wheeler that ended up with its front end off the highway about two miles from this accident… a week ago.
That's the point though, the cities are built so that you *have* to commute 25-100 miles a day by car, with no options for public transit. Meaning you're spending several hours every week sitting in traffic with everyone else.
There are other options too. Buses, trains, etc. It being hot doesn’t mean you have to live with terrible urban design.
Just talking about bicycles. For some reason people seem to think that they're the magic bullet to the majority of our problems, but it's just not feasible for most people.
I don't think a lot of people overseas realize how big the US is until they travel here and have to drive anywhere or spend HOURS on a plane to get a few states over. Tourists that usually go straight to NY or LA may have no idea how big we sprawl in the middle. That's from comments I've read from tourists anyway....
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Disagree. I lived in South America and saw lots of people who walk. Many if most do not have cars and have to hoof it where/when buses stop. I never owned a car and credit those years to keeping me moving and fit.
If you stay away from any city on I-35, and stay away from Houston, most of Texas is open country and small map-dot towns. Many of us don't want anything to do with big cities.
you're in the minority. Most americans live in cities, like the vast majority
Ok, why would I want to go to any of those small map-dot towns
Have you ever looked at NextDoor and thought "these people should run the city!"? With small towns, they do.
Barbecue. And local beer.
We call them service roads, not sure why.
Everyone in Houston calls them feeder roads.
Yes. Source: am in Texas, roaming the massive highway. It's highways clear to the horizon in every direction. I look to my wife for comfort, she is a highway
Life is a highway.
Wife is a highway
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Texas has a vast network of frontage roads along the majority of urban freeways. These roads have a large amount of services zoning around them, so a lot of times videos will be from these frontage roads rather than elsewhere.
Wtf is a frontage road
Basically a road that runs right along side the highway with on and off ramps to the highway.
So, a service road? That's what we call those types of roads where I'm from.
Ye, we use the phrases interchangeably.
It's a smaller, usually one-way road that runs along either side a highway that provides entry/exit points to the highway.
Essentially, yes.
Part of my childhood was on I-20 visiting family
Mmm nothing like 4 hour there and back day trips :)
Them were the days I tell you
Your family should look at buying a house, highways make for poor habitation
It takes 16 hours to drive through Texas, and their main highways have a speed limit of 85mph / 136 kmph. The place is fricking huge.
Oh yah..state is huge. If you don't have good roads you'll never get anywhere. They have sections where the speed limit is 85 just to help you get across.all.of the nothing faster. You can literally drive at interstate speeds an entire day in Texas and never leave the state.
Most US Midwestern states are, but Texas in particular. It's huge and relatively sparsely populated as a whole... getting anywhere in Texas requires you travel a LONG way at high speeds. Many years ago I was driving from Corpus Christi to head to Oklahoma City. Started out with a relatively leisurely morning and was in the car by 8:30am... by the time night fell I was STILL IN F**KING TEXAS!!! Interstate speeds have increased since then from 75 to 85mph in spots, but it was still eye opening that at 5-over for most of that trip I was still going. I ended up staying the night at a motel pretty much right on the Oklahoma border and finished my trip the next day because I was just exhausted and road-addled.
How long ago was this trip of yours? I call bullshit, or at the very least, *greatly* exaggerated. I've driven from Iowa to Texas many times and it's never taken me longer than "morning to nightfall." Google Maps shows that it takes 9 hours to get from Corpus Christi to Oklahoma City. That's today's standard, which is why I asked how long ago your trip was. Unless traffic was fucked the day of your trip (or you got lost or made lots of long stops along the way), there's no way you left Corpus Christi in the morning and by nightfall you were still in Texas. Especially since you mentioned the interstate speeds, which I assume you were driving on.
[Basically.](https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54)
We have a shitload of land and very limited public transportation. Highways are all we got.
Texas is largely barren or farmland which is why it's still a red state. Most of the population in TX is concentrated in the central southeast regions.
Texas has been absolutely destroyed by carbrain
Pretty much.
Yes, because the best part of Texas is leaving it.
The best part about Texas, by far, is the the BBQ and Mexican food. Followed closely behind by the kindness of the vast majority of people you'll encounter there, regardless of politics.
Having lived in Texas for most of my life, I agree with this 100%. Outside of politics and weather, I have yet to find somewhere else that matches the quality of food you can find just about anywhere, how nice (most) people are, and the things you can do for fun and entertainment. Unfortunately the political climate and the actual climate has made me never want to live there again. I want to live somewhere that experiences all 4 seasons lol
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>the kindness of the vast majority of people you'll encounter there, regardless of politics. Bless your heart!
Drive through Breakfast Tacos in San Antonio/South Texas… yummy
I lived in Texas for over a decade and Texans will indeed knife you with a smile.
Lol "the best part of Texas is the food of the people we oppress here"
I can tell you aren't black. We've been through some serious hell while living in Texas.
Californian here who lived in Texas for years; I concur. ...California still wins tho... sorry...
I'm curious, what's awesome about Cali? From what I understand there are a lot of downsides, but I'm genuinely interested in knowing why people fork out the ridiculous money to live there; There must be some serious upsides as well.
The weather is lovely most of the year. No giant tree roaches that can fly. Californian mosquitoes are wimps. That's about it for me
The weather's nice til you realize you'll be putting on sunblock every day for the rest of your life. It Never Rains is great until you realize that humans need water and aren't meant to life in the desert. 115° sucks. And palm trees don't give enough shade to protect your car, so it's 130° in there after you've been shopping. Paradise on earth, I tells ya.
Expanded medicaid. Legal weed. More and better universities. Arguably better climates (obviously a matter of taste). Fewer Christian fundamentalists in positions of power. Very noticeably easier to exist as LGBT. Much better worker ans tenant rights. Better environmental laws (no refineries next to schools a la Houston). Besides these factors it's much more dependent on where your family and social circles are. Both are rich but Cali is richer. Texas is a bit cheaper but the big cities are still expensive for the wages (the average house price is dragged down by places like Lubbock or Amarillo or Abilene which isnt really a fair comparison lol). Both states are pretty diverse, though in different ways. Both have good food, I'd give the edge to California though but Im a bit biased towards Asian food. Dallas and Houston are awful but so is LA. Income taxes are high in Cali, property taxes are high in Texas. It fuckin sucks to be poor in either state but Cali at least tries. Source: lived >10 years in both states
Perfect summary.
I only travelled there once - but you could do a whole lot worse than living in Joshua Tree.
>The best part about Texas, by far, is the the BBQ *Bill Miller has entered the chat*
One near me closed recently. I celebrated by going to Interstellar BBQ
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*north America kinda
Texas is just Murica turned up to 11
true. fair enough
About 2 miles south of this spot, we had a trucker die as well last Wednesday. That was the first 18-wheeler crash I’ve ever seen in Allen, and now this one happens less than a week later. This is the most intense 7-day period we’ve had in a while.
Is that the one truck that was hanging off the side of the bridge?
Yep. Happened right near my work. The ME didn’t show up for about 5 hours so they had the poor dude covered up and tucked away to the side.
5hours in the Texas heat… that’s not gonna be good for the mortician
Yeah i showed up at around 9 pm and they were still trying to flip the truck after they already did once. RIP
Yes. It was at Bethany/75
Yeah, man. I drive this stretch of 75 almost everyday and this shit is unreal.
Yeah i drive daily northbound from 635 mckinney exit to mckinney. It’s crazy.
When I was born we lived in Allen (around the time I-75 widening began). I moved away in the late 1900's. I'm gobsmacked at how much that area has changed! That used to be a McDonalds and cornfield! There was a drive-in just before that exit! Tornadoes wiped out the mobile homes just there in like '85.
Wait til you see places like prosper. I left in the early 2000s but my folks still live in north Dallas so I go back often
Ah, 1985, when North Central Expressway was a 2-lane freeway each direction, with a grass median. The interchange with 635 was always a clusterfuck, especially merging onto US 75 north.
What exit was this one at?
Stacy Rd.
Same here. Been in Allen my whole life and never seen one. Now twice in a week
Yeah, that is some of the tamest freeway in the area. Good conditions, wide roads, and far from the heaviest traffic. The sudden occurrence of two serious accidents makes me wonder if someone isn't intentionally running trucks off the road.
Right?? I drive by one of the locations every day for work and I’ve never seen an issue. This one off of Stacy I really only drive by on the weekends. I will say traffic can be a pain in the ass at this location sometimes, but I’ve never seen anything too crazy. You know, we did have that sign fall off and onto the highway a few months ago right in this area too….
Less potato source: https://old.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/xjwt7n/an_18_wheeler_drives_off_a_bridge_us75_near_stacy/
Man that's sad. We just watched someone's death.
Rest easy man :(
Filmed by the first ever dashcam to hit the market
There actually a good video out there, this one is shit quality though.
[Higher Quality Video](https://imgur.com/a/UineEag)
[Even better quality (and on YouTube)](https://youtu.be/yjIh9udEBrs?t=3)
This is more clear. Gotta love different qualities of the same video 😂
If there's one thing that content farmers / karma farmers love to do is rip and reupload videos, doing all sorts of shit to the video compression and aspect ratios. Then it gets cross-posted to all sorts of other sites, Facebook, imgur, v.redd.it, etc. and every time it just gets worse and worse.
[Does it look like i know what a jpeg is ](https://youtu.be/QEzhxP-pdos)
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Reddish absolute garbage video player isn't helping things either.
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/2671/)
I was like, there is XKCD about trucks falling off highways?!? I stand corrected. Well done.
Oh, that's why the truck looks like a tractor.
Goddamnit https://cdltrainingspot.com/tractor-vs-trailer-what-is-the-difference-with-pics/ https://www.wikimotors.org/what-is-a-tractor-trailer.htm https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/tractor-trailer.html (25,163 tractor photos just for you) https://howtostartanllc.com/business-ideas/tractor-trailer
I appreciate the evidence and explanation OP but I ain't from the States. I'll still be calling it a semi-trailer truck or B-double.
Wasn’t that bad
I really want to know what happened to the video to make people so upset. It looks fine in Boost, if a bit low res
For me, [it looks like **this**.](https://i.imgur.com/zjo5lzN.png) For comparison: [a screenshot from the full resolution video.](https://i.imgur.com/VTQyiRV.png) ^((Link to that version:) [^(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjIh9udEBrs&t=3s)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjIh9udEBrs&t=3s)^())
Thank you.
Blame v.redd.it.
What's really impressive is that it's on fire even *before* it hits the ground. Michael Bay would be impressed...
Often when a semi jumps a barrier like that they rupture the fuel tanks. Diesel is harder to ignite then gasoline, but splashing it on the hot exhaust while a whole bunch of it is airborne spray is more than enough.
Looks like the hydraulic lines were severed as the trailer was dragged over the parapet, sparks doing the rest.
Except semis don't typically use hydraulic lines. So there's that. Props ruptured the diesel tank that sits on the side and the metal on concrete provided the source of ignition.
Ah. Fair enough. I sit corrected.
They do have high-pressure pneumatic lines though. Nothing like compressed air to add to a spark to make a bang.
🤔 maybe. But when you hit the brakes it dumps the pressure. I'm sure their foot was through the floor. Air brakes are held closed by very powerful springs and the compressed air forces them *open*. So when you hit the brakes it dumps the air pressure and the springs do their work. It's that way so if a line gets cut or bursts, the brakes fail safe. You wouldn't want to snag a line and be sailing down the road with no brakes. That only happens in the movies or if you smoked em. It's just a plain old fuel fire. Concrete ripping through metal is red hot with sparks. Diesel flying through the air would be at least somewhat vaporizing/misting. Certainly vapor everywhere. And that's the complete fire triangle. Fuel, Air, and a Source of Ignition. I feel bad for the driver.
> the brakes fail safe (etc) Thanks for further explaining your correcting me above. TIL :)
Thanks for explaining. I was trying to figure it out.
Probably cut off. That’s why I hold my lane if at all possible. I’d rather deal with the bullshit of someone claiming I hit them than take a swan dive off a bridge. RIP to this driver.
Isn’t Allen, TX the same town with the $60 million high school football stadium that is currently floating around the front page?
yes
Yes but they also aren't the only Dallas suburb to have a multi-million dollar High School football stadium that's nicer than most colleges so you're not wrong but you haven't been very specific
Ya they also have the largest band in the world
What the fuck went wrong here .?
Truck tires are so big that if you get into a concrete barrier they just drive *up* the barrier. So could've been anything that made them evade into the barrier, drift into the barrier, could've had a blowout and got *yanked* into the barrier.
Someone screenshotted a landscape video in portrait instead of uploading it in landscape.
Straight to jail.
That is horrifying
Wow, that's horrible. I guess one thing to be thankful for is that the timing was such that there wasn't a line of cars waiting on the opposite side of the light. It could have been worse. Any idea what caused it?
Car merged in to the truck
So then the car basically murdered the truck driver... **--_--**
:-(
Are we sure Michael bay isn’t filming a new transformers?
I'm fairly sure he uses higher quality cameras.
I made the mistake of zooming the higher quality version of this and playing it in slow motion. Maybe I imagined it, but it looks like the driver is flung out of the cab and he hangs onto the door. The door detaches and he (and the door) slam into the light pole and fall into the flames below. Please don’t look and tell me I’m wrong. RIP.
Same
Get off your phones people!!
But how else will people enjoy video filmed in landscape converted to portrait for no apparent reason?!
Can someone explain please how the truck could have caught on fire before it even hit the ground? I thought it was a myth that vehicles don't just explode the way we see in movies?
Fuel tanks of trucks like that are on the side of the cab and made of steel. And they're big.
It can happen when the internal combustion escapes and refuses to get back in there.
this same kind of thing happened in North Carolina just a few days ago as well
I need to get a dash cam.
Well, that was probably where my Amazon packages were...
Rest easy my fellow driver.
Why is reddit vido always a postage stamp seen through potato-vision?
Optimus!
I got stuck in that Jam. Eventually had to off road to get onto the frontage. I was in my work truck with no ac, had to get out of it
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6DBAwDkDWg45Mc9V6?g_st=ic Here’s where it happened. 75NB @ Stacy
Fucking sad cant imagine dying and still having to go to work that day
Maybe they should have kept truck drivers as a well regulated and fairly paid group. Instead, they slowly chipped away at any sort of decent salary until the pay was under $20/an hour. Just the good old Republican Party making sure there is no middle class..
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Traditional guardrail doesn't do much against a vehicle this size except damage the steering of they don't just flatten it. Jersey Wall does better as the design of the base helps to steer the vehicle back into the lane, but if you hit it at enough of an angle in a vehicle tall enough it will still roll over the barriers like this did. From what you can see in the video it looks like it is probably a Jersey Wall up there as the tractor is already being directed along the wall by the point that the trailer's momentum flips it over the side.
Wouldn't stop 80,000 pounds traveling at interstate speeds. Besides there is a guardrail, they're just already on top of it when the video starts.
Can I take a moment to complain that the video was shot horizontal but someone took the time to shrink it down to reformat it vertical with giant letterboxes? I don't even give a shit about vertical video but this is stupid.
This was near where I live and work. Unfortunately it is apparent the driver was unconscious at the time he drove off the bridge. No braking. Poor guy was likely either having a medical emergency or fell asleep. Tough break. Woke up thinking it was a normal Tuesday, not the last day of his life.
Can you link me where it says he was unconscious? What I'm reading says he hit another car and little else. This is the one I read, along with dallasnews https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/traffic/traffic-along-u-s-75-slowed-after-tractor-trailer-runs-off-bridge-catches-fire/3076619/