Raptor no more.

[Synfulz]

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[9zero1790]

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i wish we could see how this played out before the crash. I assume the ford driver was doing something stupid...

 

[ControlNode]

i wish we could see how this played out before the crash. I assume the ford driver was doing something stupid...

The preliminary investigation revealed a tanker was traveling north on Gateway North and making a left turn onto Kenworthy to go westbound.

Police say that at the same time, Manuel Alejandro Gonzalez, 34, from Chaparral, New Mexico, along with passenger Melissa Tristan, 36, from Socorro, were traveling at a high rate of speed and entered the intersection on a red light and crashed into the tanker.

I was thinking the same thing based on what the video showed. Those details being how far under the tanker that Raptor punched, and the tanker position in the intersection. The only thing I couldn't determine was who went through a red, or failed to yield right-of-way, but excess speed looked apparent.

 

[9zero1790]

I was thinking the same thing based on what the video showed. Those details being how far under the tanker that Raptor punched, and the tanker position in the intersection. The only thing I couldn't determine was who went through a red, or failed to yield right-of-way, but excess speed looked apparent.

hard to feel bad for the raptor driver as it was his mistake... sucks for the others.

 

[MountainGoat]

hard to feel bad for the raptor driver as it was his mistake... sucks for the others.

He's been deported to that great sanctuary city in the sky.

 

[Wang.S]

https://kvia.com/news/2023/07/30/ch...shing-into-tanker-truck-in-northeast-el-paso/

My question is, they wheeled the passenger to the ambulance near the end of the video, was she trapped in the truck the whole time they were yanking/pulling and hoisting the tanker off the raptor??
Is that an acceptable extrication process?? I'm kind of hoping they had her out prior to all that.

 

[Synfulz]

https://kvia.com/news/2023/07/30/ch...shing-into-tanker-truck-in-northeast-el-paso/

My question is, they wheeled the passenger to the ambulance near the end of the video, was she trapped in the truck the whole time they were yanking/pulling and hoisting the tanker off the raptor??
Is that an acceptable extrication process?? I'm kind of hoping they had her out prior to all that.

She was trapped for 3 hours. Yes I believe they had to lift the tanker. But I could be mistaken, but that was my impression.

 

[Wang.S]

She was trapped for 3 hours. Yes I believe they had to lift the tanker. But I could be mistaken, but that was my impression.

thats crazy.

 

[Rinn69]

https://kvia.com/news/2023/07/30/ch...shing-into-tanker-truck-in-northeast-el-paso/

My question is, they wheeled the passenger to the ambulance near the end of the video, was she trapped in the truck the whole time they were yanking/pulling and hoisting the tanker off the raptor??
Is that an acceptable extrication process?? I'm kind of hoping they had her out prior to all that.

Even with the jaws of life, there is only so much you can do. Access looked very limited and the lift was done in an "as safe as possible" manner. Depending on her injuries, the time it would have taken to cut her out versus lifting and extracting could have been a factor. Hard for us to judge without being on scene and knowing all the variables, which I'm sure, were numerous.

Also, looking at the passenger area, it didn't look that bad, considering the impact. Sometimes, things look like "no one could survive that", but they do. I've seen simple accidents, and there were fatalities.....also seen horrible accidents and they walk or limp away..... ?‍

 

[TJC]

My neighbor is a highway patrolman going on 30 years. He remembered a young woman passenger who walked away from a horrific accident and was sitting on the curb. When he came over to question her, she turned her head, collapsed and died! She had a broken neck and when she turned her head she severed her spinal cord. He said from then on they took no chances and neck braces went on accident victims as a precaution.

We are here for just a little while, and we are far more fragile then we think.

 

[9zero1790]

My neighbor is a highway patrolman going on 30 years. He remembered a young woman passenger who walked away from a horrific accident and was sitting on the curb. When he came over to question her, she turned her head, collapsed and died! She had a broken neck and when she turned her head she severed her spinal cord. He said from then on they took no chances and neck braces went on accident victims as a precaution.

We are here for just a little while, and we are far more fragile then we think.

holy smokes thats flippin terrible...

 

[Langwilliams]

WOW that was a HIT. Looks like one of those "highway through hell" scenes where they have to lift a giant rig.

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