Glad the Semi driver was okay. The surviving person that was ejected was lucky and definitely had a hand watching over. Condolences to the family of the deceased driver.
My guess would be that both the driver and his passenger were asleep and the truck drifted over into the semi. Perhaps they had been traveling all night to get to a jobsite. I remember when I was younger and had some close calls of the same nature. What a tragedy!!!
That may be the case, but if you notice the rumble strip to alert drivers when they veer off to the right, the driver must have been in a deep sleep. I still wouldn't rule out watching a video on YT or using Google maps to zero in on their destination.
Excellent documentation of the damage, including critical areas. Can visualize the intensity of the impact. It’s amazing how little structural damage was done to the trailer compared to the overwhelming devastation the work truck incurred.
Excellent observation. At approximately 4:35, if you zoom in you can see that the smaller trucks "main frame" avoided the impact... which made a wreck that was already gonna be bad, even worse. Since it missed the frame rail, the front drivers side suspension folded itself and the frame into a pretzel before the sturdy semi trailer turned the new aluminum sheet metal cab into shrapnel. It is a very sad scene.... driving a motor vehicle can be alot more dangerous than most think.... we are all 1 bad driver away from being hurt in an auto wreck.
Apparently the semi truck had put out triangles. The pickup truck apparently scooped them up just before crashing into the semi trailer. The Ford F 350 was apparently traveling at a very high rate of speed parts of the left side of the truck cab was fuzed to the right side of the semi trailer. Then during Impact rolled the F 350 over scattering the ladders on top of the utility bed. The passenger was probably sleeping and the driver went to sleep after he had been driving since before daylight by a few hours then when the sun came up and the driver fell asleep when the sun came into the cab. Driving at night then when the sun comes up it is absolutely a must to stop and sleep. The Hyundai semi trailer is absolutely very rugged. The cab of the F 350 was ripped apart and the semi trailer is still in tact. I noticed some rim damage on the semi trailer and also tire damage.
You just never know, adjust the radio, phone rings, drop a cigarette/cigar un extinguished by accident on the floorboard. Then lookup and it’s to late it’s over thanks for coming. Looks the F350 didn’t brake or anything damn it! Keep the folks involved in mind next time you pray.
I’m an otr driver and I can’t even imagine what is going through the mind of the driver in the rig, and I hope that the one who lost his life is in heaven with the Lord! It sickens me to think the alternative! I’m so sorry for all parties involved and their families who have to live with the aftermath of such destruction, may the Lord be with you all! 🙏🏼😔
we were close with him- autopsy showed it was medical. probably cardiac arrest, passing out at the wheel, going off and hitting the semi. he was such an incredible person
@2:08 Looks like the Semi driver had his hazard triangles out. Evidently The F-350 ran over at least one of them carrying it along. @ 2:17 is Hazard triangle box . @7:05 the semi was pushed forward about four feet and to the left one feet.
It wouldn't surprise me if the sun contributed to it. I drive this road frequently, and that time of morning can be brutal with the sun glare. I've experienced it several times. RIP to the driver and condolences to everyone who loves him.
I used to drive east for quite a distance to work, every morning for years I crested the top of a hill and the sun shined in my face for about 15 seconds in the winter. Even if I left a half hour earlier or later from December until about March . I was a lucky one that never happened to me. Over the years a couple dozen cars did crash, a couple met their fate.
The semi tuck was parked on the shoulder. The Ford left the roadway by 30 feet and slammed into a parked semi and never hit the brakes. I think the driver was incapacitated maybe a medical problem.
I'm still trying to figure out how this accident happened. First, that F-350 had to be going a decent clip, to cause that kind of damage. Second, I saw no skid marks indicating the driver of the F-350 saw the semi, let alone tried to avoid hitting it. Third, the broken down semi had his cones out, we know this, because they're all caught up in the chassis of the F-350. Fourth, the ANGLE needed, in order to hit that semi exactly as he did? Would make far more sense if it came from that frontage road/on-ramp, than from on the freeway. To impact the way it did, it had to be ALL the way over to the right.. but even further than the guardrail would be, then he tried to swerve between the semi, and the end of the guardrail, in order to impact what LOOKED to be dead-on drivers side, yet a bit ... what? Kitty-corner to the rear of the semi, in order to SPLIT THE FRAME, which was just insane. Unfortunately, with the amount of damage, and my eyes not what they once used to be, that's all I could really make out from what we saw. Did this guy fall asleep? Have a medical issue? I'd sure like to know what the passenger has to say. He's very lucky to be alive today. Crazy.
There are tire marks at 1:50 that show the direction that the utility truck came from. It was on the main freeway and went right onto the shoulder, making contact with RR of the trailer with the LF of the Ford truck, literally ripping it apart.
@@VladimirBlarp What, what I was saying- but it shows that the F-350? Was literally to the RIGHT of the truck, save for the drivers side. Look at the photo's from further back, around the @9:15 mark. To actually do that? He'd of had to of been bounce off the guardrail- unless it's more of an optical illusion than it appears. Crazy, either way.
Well, it looks like the semi-truck had their road triangles out on the roadway like they should, per the federal regulations from the FMCSA, because you could see how they got scooped up and busted by the Ford. You have to deploy them if you're going to be on the shoulder for more than 10 minutes so, the semi-truck must have been waiting for roadside service for either engine trouble or tire trouble when the Ford crashed into the back of the trailer.
Sorry to the poor guy that didn't make it. But wow Hyundai makes one strong trailer. That thing look like you could take the truck off of it and just drive it away.
I hope that Trucker took a few days off to mentally recover before climbing into another truck. Yes, I know it takes more than "a few days" to heal from a crash this horrific, but his company owes him that at he least!
That driver's side airbag is almost solid red. Also, there is no doubt at all that the truck had its emergency triangles out because they are wedged up in the undercarriage on the F350 where he was mowing them down before hitting the truck.
Actually, that red box contained the triangles that the pickup carried, though it is possible the semi also had triangles staged. I don't have time to go back and review the tape, but, as a 29-year veteran of semi driving, that was my first thought. I was hit on the side of the road in a similar scenario on I-44 in Missouri, stopped for 2 minutes after a tire blew out to clear a "gator" hanging from my DOTbumper, was hit on the left side as I was standing at the right trailer door. No serious injuries to either the pickup driver or the car driver that he glanced off me and hit, but both vehicles totalled. DOT requires triangles to be set out after 10 minutes sitting on the shoulder or otherwise incapacitated, and too many uneducated truck drivers are taking their 30 minute break on the shoulder without placing triangles., public beware.
@@clairerodden7630I thought it looked like one might have been out. One I noticed looked like it was still folded nicely. I never leave the red box out once I put mine out
I'm down in Cincinnati watching this & shuddering...Since the 18-wheeler had stopped & was off the highway on the shoulder, & out of the lanes of traffic, what happened to cause the Ford Utility truck to crash into the back of the semi, & by this dramatic aftermath footage, it seems like the speed of the Ford truck had to have been way beyond excessive for the amount of "carnage" done that looks like there was an explosive device involved??? I guess I'm saying that I can't fathom how so much unbelievably devastating destruction could have occurred??? It will be interesting to learn the facts leading up to the accident after the investigation is completed...My heart goes out to the family & other loved ones of the gentleman who died...It seems like a miracle that three survived...
@@nicoleabrahamson1883At highway speeds there might have only been one or two seconds from the rumble strip to impact That is just not enough time to react if the driver was asleep.
The sheet metal, body(cab), and plastic parts took the brunt. The fords chassis, suspension, and drive train all continued under the trailer until it contacted the trailer tandems. The utility box also continued compressing the cab into the back of the trailer. Plus, Likely had allot of weight on the back of the utility box.
Crazy we came upon this accident right after it happened. We prayed for their souls when we saw the body. Prayerfully the survivors make a full recovery.
Those skid marks make me think that the f350 driver swerved right to miss the “car” that stopped hard enough to make those skids. But where are the people who were stopped in the road. Assuming thats what the skidding car braked for.
@@tamaragonzalez2227 9:25 to about 9:28 on the distance shot. Two cops in the middle of the road measuring it appears and there are braking marks in the second lane. If someone ahead slammed on the brakes and the F350 swerved, that could be an explaination of how he ended up on the far side of the back of the trailer and at a rate of speed that would cause this kind of damage.
I have to wonder if the skid marks in the passing lane were from a hard brake check and the white truck swerved to keep from plowing them, only to catch the corner of the parked rig. RIP driver . . .
Trucker breaks down. Put out of refhector's trucker standing outside the truck on the driver. 's side service truck comes along clips. The trailer takes out the service truck driver injured the passenger. Injures, the truck driver standing on the side of the road. You can tell by the reflectors underneath the service truck And no damages to the trucker's cab, which means the truck driver was outside the cab
Probably won't be found at fault, but he will have a fatal accident on his CSA record and cause his insurance to go up. Some companies would also not hire you if they see that on your record. Even though you're not at fault.
He wasn't parked, he was broke down and had the hazard triangles out, but the Ford F350 demolished them after he run them over and hit the tractor trailer. I said it probably was a blessing that tractor trailer was broken down, because if the F350 would've hit a family or a bus full of kids, there would be a lot more deaths than that one driver. I'm not going to speculate what happened to the Ford F350 driver, but if I had to guess, it was driver fatigue.
I saw the title CLEVELAND and assumed it is the BIG CLEVELAND to the North of me in Ohio. Thought it was strange. No litter, no urban folks milling around and no graffiti. I realized then. This not be Cleveland, OH...
R.I.P..... They'll pin this on the semi-truck driver. They'll say he had one of those giant ACME magnets from the old Roadrunner show that he activated, drawing the ill-fated Ford to its demise.
I’m fortunate be alive, metal back with 18 wheeler clipping my sports car and flipping me 21/2 football fields. Not much left of my car only spot where I was sitting. Prayers to all family and deceased.
It amazes me how many times a vehicle slams into another vehicle on the side of the road! I told my dad the other day about this because he wanted to pull over on the freeway and grab a fresh dead buck (deer). He was so adamant he was gonna get it on the way back. I kept arguing with him NO! Thankfully the deer was taken by someone else.
Driver's today do not stay Focused!!!I I have driven all over Europe and Had some pretty close calls!l Definitely have o stay off Your phones and keep aware of Your Surrounding 360 decrees!! God Help us!! Too many people love to speed to get no where fast!! So sad!!
My son drives an 18 wheeler and he said that he is constantly on guard because of 4 wheelers doing dangerous crap. He said he can't be distracted for a second!!
Good Lord! That utility truck had to have moving at a pretty high rate of speed! The description says the driver of the semi is in the hospital in stable condition. That's insane considering he was about 60 feet in front of the point of impact.
If you look at 19:20. The impact pushed the semi truck forward about 10ft and the trucks brakes were set. So that's a very big impact for it to move that semi forward like that. More than likely the driver wasn't buckled in, due the truck being stopped. So I could see how he got injured.
@@Corky3D, that makes sense. It APPEARS there isn't a seal on the trailer's door, so there's a good chance the trailer was empty which would definitely amplify the impact.
I can almost guarantee you that the Truck Driver will be blamed and sued for causing this accident, even though it is crystal clear that the truck and trailer were way off of the highway and the pickup truck driver struck the trailer on the right corner. I feel sorry for everyone involved.
Actually it might have been a blessing the semi tractor trailer was sitting there, because as fast as the Ford F350 was going and if it hit someone else, like a family or a bus of children, this accident would've been far worse. I'm just considering what could have happened if the semi wasn't there.
Over a thousand miles from home to do a job. The lack of skid marks tells me the driver fell asleep and just woke up in Heaven. If this was the son of the family K.A.R. Co, it's very sad because they just lost their dad a couple years ago. So sorry to the families involved!
@@wolfman515 could be, but the torn seatbelt suggests they could have been wearing them. With the top of the cab and the B pillar ripped off it would have taken the seatbelt with it as it threads through the thing bolted to the top of the pillar on the way to the retractor bolted to the bottom of the pillar.
If you would notice they showed that the lock was still in place of the seat belt. The seat belt was ripped in half from the impact. And with that damage the driver would have died instantly as it was his side that hit the trailer straight in to it. The frame of Semi Trailers are made of steel and our vehicles are now made of aluminum. Duh!!!
18 wheeler probably pulled over to sleep or take his 30 minute break per eld regulation. There needs to be more parking for commercial trucks and the eld needs to be abolished.
That truck had t be hauling ass to get destroyed like that ! My condolences to this family who lost their loved one and please slow down and pay attention this goes out to everyone
Trucks today are tinfoil and bubblegummed together. While cab and nose are just light aluminum. The frames are significantly lighter as well, made with cheap scrap steel with a thin single wall open channel. They don't make trucks like they used too. They just crumble up like a soda can.
@@treydogg77 True, but also Ford's making the entire cab and bed made of aluminum doesn't help much. Soon all the truck manufacturers will follow, if not already.
@@thomasrodriguez7803 this utility truck was older than 2017 which meant it still used the steel body . You can see the old style flapper door handles at 19:47
@@VladimirBlarp: You're right, but he does make a good point about the newer pickup trucks made out of aluminum. My 2006 Dodge pickup wouldn't be a rust bucket if the cab and bed was aluminum, I only hope the thickness of the aluminum would add strength to the newer pickups and cars.
@@brianlanders8028 for example, when the "new" 2015 F150 debuted everyone made jokes about the aluminum, or how it melts in fire, blah blah blah. But in reality, in 2015 there was only ONE 5 star rated truck for crash protection and rollover protection, and that was the F150.
That looked like a very high energy crash. Interesting that the impact point was on the side of the trailer furthest from the road. I wonder what caused the F350 to be that far out of lane.
There appear to be businesses facing the crash site. Perhaps they have cameras outside that might have caught the accident. My condolences to the families of the people in the crash.
During the collapses, the 911 WTC buildings "hit the ground with such a great force, they disintegrated into dust" (not my words, but those of a college educated reporter at the scene, on the day of the collapses). The same physics played out here. The heaily loaded utility work truck struck the heavy, stationary semi with such great force, the driver was instantly liquified.
RIP to the driver of the F350. Pretty hard hit to tear that truck up that much, no skid marks so he must have hit that trailer at 65 plus, and to hit the right rear corner he had to have been well off the road, since the semi was parked on the shoulder. Difficult investigation for a cause, and DOT will impound the tractor trailer and inspect every nut and bolt, as well as checking that the driver was fully in compliance. A bit hard to tell, but a couple drive tires on that tractor looked a bit sketchy to me, but maybe it was the angle of the picture taken. Hopefully the driver was all legal and good to go, that's a pretty tough situation to get over, even though he wasn't at fault.
The tires of the 18 wheeler had NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS ACCIDENT! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!! THE 18 WHEELER WAS BROKEN DOWN ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND HAD HIS WARNING TRIANGLES PUT OUT TO LET OTHERS KNOW THAT HE WAS BROKEN DOWN. THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP DROVE OFF OF THE HIGHWAY AND RAN INTO THE BACK OF THE TRAILER HOOKED TO THE 18 WHEELER!!! HOW DUMB ARE YOU ?
Most Ford trucks of that year come from the factory with a road speed limiter that is usually set at the factory to about 75 to 80 miles per hour. But with that body full of equipment ( that weight is pushing it all down the road) and if it is doing 80 mph and hits anything solid 🪨🪨 the force is so much greater, probably double, it has to destroy the moving object. Been there and scene that happened. A driver ran under the back of a tractor trailer that was sitting on the side of the road 🛣️ away from the main road, it didn't stop till it hit the rear tires of the trailer, it took all of the roof and cut the driver's top of their body off ( had a white sheet covering the driver's area)
This is so sad to hear 😢. I don't understand why he hit the back of this semi truck. Was this guy on his cellphone and not paying attention to the road. The driver had to be speeding for that van to split into. RIP for the man that got killed. Prayers for his family also. I am glad that the passenger and truck driver is okay. 😢🙏🙏
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Glad the Semi driver was okay. The surviving person that was ejected was lucky and definitely had a hand watching over. Condolences to the family of the deceased driver.
What the advice here? Don't wear seat belts?
My guess would be that both the driver and his passenger were asleep and the truck drifted over into the semi. Perhaps they had been traveling all night to get to a jobsite. I remember when I was younger and had some close calls of the same nature. What a tragedy!!!
Yeah, considering there was luggage that was likely the case. Just tragic.
Agree, somebody didn't get their storage tank built today.
I'm going to bet that's exactly what happened. DOT # on the F350 says it's out of Bedford, Pa which is 21 hrs from this accident scene.
That may be the case, but if you notice the rumble strip to alert drivers when they veer off to the right, the driver must have been in a deep sleep. I still wouldn't rule out watching a video on YT or using Google maps to zero in on their destination.
@@joanfrellburg4901 There was a bottle of NyQuil on the road. If he took that it might explain the accident.
Excellent documentation of the damage, including critical areas. Can visualize the intensity of the impact. It’s amazing how little structural damage was done to the trailer compared to the overwhelming devastation the work truck incurred.
Strongest place to hit on a modern trailer.
Excellent observation. At approximately 4:35, if you zoom in you can see that the smaller trucks "main frame" avoided the impact... which made a wreck that was already gonna be bad, even worse. Since it missed the frame rail, the front drivers side suspension folded itself and the frame into a pretzel before the sturdy semi trailer turned the new aluminum sheet metal cab into shrapnel. It is a very sad scene.... driving a motor vehicle can be alot more dangerous than most think.... we are all 1 bad driver away from being hurt in an auto wreck.
Someone was going way too fast to move that truck that far
You're absolutely 100 correct
Apparently the semi truck had put out triangles. The pickup truck apparently scooped them up just before crashing into the semi trailer. The Ford F 350 was apparently traveling at a very high rate of speed parts of the left side of the truck cab was fuzed to the right side of the semi trailer. Then during Impact rolled the F 350 over scattering the ladders on top of the utility bed. The passenger was probably sleeping and the driver went to sleep after he had been driving since before daylight by a few hours then when the sun came up and the driver fell asleep when the sun came into the cab. Driving at night then when the sun comes up it is absolutely a must to stop and sleep. The Hyundai semi trailer is absolutely very rugged. The cab of the F 350 was ripped apart and the semi trailer is still in tact. I noticed some rim damage on the semi trailer and also tire damage.
3:15 😱😱😱 THATS THE DOOR TO THE F350!!!
Holy crap that was one hell of a hard hit 😳
That's most of the drivers side of the cab.
That is the driver's door on the back and wrapped around the side is the cab of the truck.
Man, I see no brake skid marks, just full on hit. I hope for the driver it was instant and that he didn't suffer. RIP.
The only skid marks I saw were from the semi trailer, and to have slid that rig 10', that Ford was hauling a$$.
🙏 RIP F-35O DRIVER 🙏
Condolences to your family and friends at this difficult time. ✝️😢😥
That pickup truck driver never felt a thing
They must have been going at least 80mph for something like that to happen, just insane. Hopefully the passenger is alright.
That trailer took a hit and didn't even crumple.
That's one solidly built trailer!
They just peeled the Ford off that trailer like it was tape!
Medical emergency or looking at that tablet that was laying on the road, no brakes just throttled right into the back of that trailer!!
we were close with him. autopsy showed medical reason, prob cardiac arrest. slumped down in the front seat then went off the road.
!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Unbelievable the passenger survived, but, it doesn’t mean he/she doesn’t have life altering injuries. 🙏
Or emotional scars from this
All that happened in milliseconds.
Just incredible damage.
You just never know, adjust the radio, phone rings, drop a cigarette/cigar un extinguished by accident on the floorboard. Then lookup and it’s to late it’s over thanks for coming. Looks the F350 didn’t brake or anything damn it! Keep the folks involved in mind next time you pray.
I’m an otr driver and I can’t even imagine what is going through the mind of the driver in the rig, and I hope that the one who lost his life is in heaven with the Lord! It sickens me to think the alternative! I’m so sorry for all parties involved and their families who have to live with the aftermath of such destruction, may the Lord be with you all! 🙏🏼😔
Sad part is the Driver is 23 years old, I know him
A Signal 30 for sure! RIP and prayers to the families. Thank You Scott!
Watched again and at 16:14 noticed a NyQuil bottle maybe fell asleep
we were close with him- autopsy showed it was medical. probably cardiac arrest, passing out at the wheel, going off and hitting the semi. he was such an incredible person
@2:08 Looks like the Semi driver had his hazard triangles out. Evidently The F-350 ran over at least one of them carrying it along. @ 2:17 is Hazard triangle box . @7:05 the semi was pushed forward about four feet and to the left one feet.
My chest hurts thinking about how hard they had to have ran into the back of that semi 😭 for it to move like that
@@LiL.Pixxie I understand, my dad's a long haul trucker and I have ridden with him several times, and it takes a lot of force to move one!
Distracted? Maybe sun just coming up? Sincere condolences to the drivers family. Recovery to the passenger. He likely has quite a battle ahead 🙏
It wouldn't surprise me if the sun contributed to it. I drive this road frequently, and that time of morning can be brutal with the sun glare. I've experienced it several times. RIP to the driver and condolences to everyone who loves him.
Definitely not the sun
I used to drive east for quite a distance to work, every morning for years I crested the top of a hill and the sun shined in my face for about 15 seconds in the winter. Even if I left a half hour earlier or later from December until about March . I was a lucky one that never happened to me. Over the years a couple dozen cars did crash, a couple met their fate.
The semi tuck was parked on the shoulder. The Ford left the roadway by 30 feet and slammed into a parked semi and never hit the brakes. I think the driver was incapacitated maybe a medical problem.
The evidence points to driver fell asleep.
This happens more often than people think. You do not want to the back of a large trailer or truck. A friend of mine got killed that way.
Accidents involving semis parked on side of the road/shoulder happen 30,000 times a year. And about 500 of those are fatal.
By the looks of it the impact was straight onto the drivers side of the door. FULL IMPACT
Man, he must have been flying!
I'm still trying to figure out how this accident happened. First, that F-350 had to be going a decent clip, to cause that kind of damage. Second, I saw no skid marks indicating the driver of the F-350 saw the semi, let alone tried to avoid hitting it. Third, the broken down semi had his cones out, we know this, because they're all caught up in the chassis of the F-350. Fourth, the ANGLE needed, in order to hit that semi exactly as he did? Would make far more sense if it came from that frontage road/on-ramp, than from on the freeway.
To impact the way it did, it had to be ALL the way over to the right.. but even further than the guardrail would be, then he tried to swerve between the semi, and the end of the guardrail, in order to impact what LOOKED to be dead-on drivers side, yet a bit ... what? Kitty-corner to the rear of the semi, in order to SPLIT THE FRAME, which was just insane.
Unfortunately, with the amount of damage, and my eyes not what they once used to be, that's all I could really make out from what we saw.
Did this guy fall asleep? Have a medical issue? I'd sure like to know what the passenger has to say. He's very lucky to be alive today. Crazy.
There are tire marks at 1:50 that show the direction that the utility truck came from. It was on the main freeway and went right onto the shoulder, making contact with RR of the trailer with the LF of the Ford truck, literally ripping it apart.
Exactly my thoughts, how did that even happen damn sad
@@VladimirBlarp What, what I was saying- but it shows that the F-350? Was literally to the RIGHT of the truck, save for the drivers side. Look at the photo's from further back, around the @9:15 mark. To actually do that? He'd of had to of been bounce off the guardrail- unless it's more of an optical illusion than it appears. Crazy, either way.
@shockingguy to me it looks like the F350 hit a sitting still parked semi. How else could that happen. Very strange.??
@@rickrickard2788 looks like that guardrail ends before the impact point on the shoulder
This didn't have to happen!! Prayers to all involved and RIP who lost their lives!!❤❤❤
Well, it looks like the semi-truck had their road triangles out on the roadway like they should, per the federal regulations from the FMCSA, because you could see how they got scooped up and busted by the Ford. You have to deploy them if you're going to be on the shoulder for more than 10 minutes so, the semi-truck must have been waiting for roadside service for either engine trouble or tire trouble when the Ford crashed into the back of the trailer.
Sorry to the poor guy that didn't make it. But wow Hyundai makes one strong trailer. That thing look like you could take the truck off of it and just drive it away.
They make them at a plant in Tijuana, but they are pretty solid trailers. My company has a whole fleet of them!
I hope that Trucker took a few days off to mentally recover before climbing into another truck. Yes, I know it takes more than "a few days" to heal from a crash this horrific, but his company owes him that at he least!
Our Condolences to the family
That driver's side airbag is almost solid red. Also, there is no doubt at all that the truck had its emergency triangles out because they are wedged up in the undercarriage on the F350 where he was mowing them down before hitting the truck.
Actually, that red box contained the triangles that the pickup carried, though it is possible the semi also had triangles staged. I don't have time to go back and review the tape, but, as a 29-year veteran of semi driving, that was my first thought. I was hit on the side of the road in a similar scenario on I-44 in Missouri, stopped for 2 minutes after a tire blew out to clear a "gator" hanging from my DOTbumper, was hit on the left side as I was standing at the right trailer door. No serious injuries to either the pickup driver or the car driver that he glanced off me and hit, but both vehicles totalled. DOT requires triangles to be set out after 10 minutes sitting on the shoulder or otherwise incapacitated, and too many uneducated truck drivers are taking their 30 minute break on the shoulder without placing triangles., public beware.
@@clairerodden7630I thought it looked like one might have been out. One I noticed looked like it was still folded nicely. I never leave the red box out once I put mine out
@@clairerodden7630I was taught in trucking school to stop at parking lots/rest areas or ?? For everything except emergencies or break downs.
I'm down in Cincinnati watching this & shuddering...Since the 18-wheeler had stopped & was off the highway on the shoulder, & out of the lanes of traffic, what happened to cause the Ford Utility truck to crash into the back of the semi, & by this dramatic aftermath footage, it seems like the speed of the Ford truck had to have been way beyond excessive for the amount of "carnage" done that looks like there was an explosive device involved??? I guess I'm saying that I can't fathom how so much unbelievably devastating destruction could have occurred??? It will be interesting to learn the facts leading up to the accident after the investigation is completed...My heart goes out to the family & other loved ones of the gentleman who died...It seems like a miracle that three survived...
Prayers to all involved! RIP driver 🥺
So sad for everyone involved!! May God carry all of them thru this difficult transition!
How fast were they going? Jeez! RIP, driver.
50mph
@@brendonemerick7626 wow, wonder why they didn't respond to the sound of the rumble strip as they left the lane...
@@nicoleabrahamson1883At highway speeds there might have only been one or two seconds from the rumble strip to impact That is just not enough time to react if the driver was asleep.
@@brendonemerick7626 I'll fix it for you - 150mph
The sheet metal, body(cab), and plastic parts took the brunt. The fords chassis, suspension, and drive train all continued under the trailer until it contacted the trailer tandems. The utility box also continued compressing the cab into the back of the trailer. Plus, Likely had allot of weight on the back of the utility box.
Crazy we came upon this accident right after it happened. We prayed for their souls when we saw the body. Prayerfully the survivors make a full recovery.
Looks like that was a 3 lane that necked down to 2 lanes with a wide shoulder. F350 never got over.
I'm surprised they didn't hear the rumble strip, though
Those skid marks make me think that the f350 driver swerved right to miss the “car” that stopped hard enough to make those skids. But where are the people who were stopped in the road. Assuming thats what the skidding car braked for.
There are no skid marks.
@@tamaragonzalez2227 9:25 to about 9:28 on the distance shot. Two cops in the middle of the road measuring it appears and there are braking marks in the second lane. If someone ahead slammed on the brakes and the F350 swerved, that could be an explaination of how he ended up on the far side of the back of the trailer and at a rate of speed that would cause this kind of damage.
the 3 Triangles was the proof that the trucker wasn't at fault it was the driver in the Ford truck that crashed into it.
True sacrifice to be on the road these days My deepest condolences to the driver and family
Amazing that anyone could survive that type of sudden stoppage impact.
Nobody did
@@johngreydanus2033 passenger did.
@johngreydanus2033 Sgt. Edwards stated that the passenger of the F350 was hospitalized in Stable condition.
@@kurtfoulke5130 Thanks, wow, imagine his emotional trauma if he was awake when the sleeping driver drifted over, damn!
@johngreydanus2033 who said driver was sleeping?
I have to wonder if the skid marks in the passing lane were from a hard brake check and the white truck swerved to keep from plowing them, only to catch the corner of the parked rig. RIP driver . . .
I was the survivor in this. All i ask is to please be respectful with your comments.
Wow,what happened?were you sleeping or up on impact?
@@mustangjoe2066 I wasn't driving. I just popped up a split second before impact. I don't wanna go into much detail.
I respect you for not going into details.
Rest in peace to thef350 driver prayers for a speedy recovery to the other people
Trucker breaks down. Put out of refhector's trucker standing outside the truck on the driver. 's side service truck comes along clips. The trailer takes out the service truck driver injured the passenger. Injures, the truck driver standing on the side of the road. You can tell by the reflectors underneath the service truck And no damages to the trucker's cab, which means the truck driver was outside the cab
I pray they DONT try to fault the truck driver for parking on the Side of the Highway..
Prayers for all families members & driver
Unlikely as it’s legal to use the shoulder. This is all fault of the f350. Most likely they fell asleep
Probably won't be found at fault, but he will have a fatal accident on his CSA record and cause his insurance to go up. Some companies would also not hire you if they see that on your record. Even though you're not at fault.
He wasn't parked, he was broke down and had the hazard triangles out, but the Ford F350 demolished them after he run them over and hit the tractor trailer. I said it probably was a blessing that tractor trailer was broken down, because if the F350 would've hit a family or a bus full of kids, there would be a lot more deaths than that one driver. I'm not going to speculate what happened to the Ford F350 driver, but if I had to guess, it was driver fatigue.
poor semi driver..idiot ford driver at least the passenger survived
People have got to start paying attention when they are driving.
I'm sure it'll be the 18 wheeler's fault somehow
Yup, I can already see the hammer(Jim Adler) making phone calls. 🤦♂️
They always get the blame even when it's not at all their fault.
Someone out there has a dash cam video of this happening.
I saw the title CLEVELAND and assumed it is the BIG CLEVELAND to the North of me in Ohio. Thought it was strange. No litter, no urban folks milling around and no graffiti. I realized then. This not be Cleveland, OH...
AT 16:14 there is a bottle of NyQuil along with what looks like other meds. That might have something to do with this accident.
R.I.P..... They'll pin this on the semi-truck driver. They'll say he had one of those giant ACME magnets from the old Roadrunner show that he activated, drawing the ill-fated Ford to its demise.
People find it to easy blaming the semi trucks. Semis are damn if they do & damned if they don’t.
I’m fortunate be alive, metal back with 18 wheeler clipping my sports car and flipping me 21/2 football fields. Not much left of my car only spot where I was sitting. Prayers to all family and deceased.
It amazes me how many times a vehicle slams into another vehicle on the side of the road! I told my dad the other day about this because he wanted to pull over on the freeway and grab a fresh dead buck (deer). He was so adamant he was gonna get it on the way back. I kept arguing with him NO! Thankfully the deer was taken by someone else.
It's like the hazard signs act like a beacon for drivers who are impaired or are falling asleep.
Driver's today do not stay Focused!!!I I have driven all over Europe and Had some pretty close calls!l Definitely have o stay off Your phones and keep aware of Your Surrounding 360 decrees!! God Help us!! Too many people love to speed to get no where fast!! So sad!!
There is a rumble strip, this was way more than a distraction to go that far past the strip. Odds are the driver fell asleep or had a medical issue.
The cab of the work truck stuck to the trailer
That indicates a hard hit, for sure
My son drives an 18 wheeler and he said that he is constantly on guard because of 4 wheelers doing dangerous crap. He said he can't be distracted for a second!!
Good Lord! That utility truck had to have moving at a pretty high rate of speed! The description says the driver of the semi is in the hospital in stable condition. That's insane considering he was about 60 feet in front of the point of impact.
He was likely outside.
If you look at 19:20. The impact pushed the semi truck forward about 10ft and the trucks brakes were set. So that's a very big impact for it to move that semi forward like that. More than likely the driver wasn't buckled in, due the truck being stopped. So I could see how he got injured.
@@Corky3D, that makes sense. It APPEARS there isn't a seal on the trailer's door, so there's a good chance the trailer was empty which would definitely amplify the impact.
@@carlos64030you can see a metal seal at 15:49
I’m sure glad that at least the traffic has slowed right down to make it safe for first responders….NOT!🙄
I can almost guarantee you that the Truck Driver will be blamed and sued for causing this accident, even though it is crystal clear that the truck and trailer were way off of the highway and the pickup truck driver struck the trailer on the right corner. I feel sorry for everyone involved.
Actually it might have been a blessing the semi tractor trailer was sitting there, because as fast as the Ford F350 was going and if it hit someone else, like a family or a bus of children, this accident would've been far worse. I'm just considering what could have happened if the semi wasn't there.
Hubgroup have cameras, they're are good, I bet they got the video already
Over a thousand miles from home to do a job.
The lack of skid marks tells me the driver fell asleep and just woke up in Heaven.
If this was the son of the family K.A.R. Co, it's very sad because they just lost their dad a couple years ago.
So sorry to the families involved!
Seatbelt looked ripped? Wonder if they got damaged in impact causing them to be ejected? Or if they weren’t wearing seatbelts anyway. RIP
Wouldn't matter if they wore their seatbelt as one end is attached to the part that got ripped off
That looked like a seat belt cheater to me.
@@wolfman515 could be, but the torn seatbelt suggests they could have been wearing them. With the top of the cab and the B pillar ripped off it would have taken the seatbelt with it as it threads through the thing bolted to the top of the pillar on the way to the retractor bolted to the bottom of the pillar.
@@wolfman515 seatbelt or no seatbelt i think the result of this crash would have been the same anyway
If you would notice they showed that the lock was still in place of the seat belt. The seat belt was ripped in half from the impact. And with that damage the driver would have died instantly as it was his side that hit the trailer straight in to it. The frame of Semi Trailers are made of steel and our vehicles are now made of aluminum. Duh!!!
18 wheeler probably pulled over to sleep or take his 30 minute break per eld regulation. There needs to be more parking for commercial trucks and the eld needs to be abolished.
That's right ELD'S GOTTA GO just imagine what would happen if the speed limiters become law get the government out of the trucking industry !!!
Cab and floor/chassis separated snapping the shoulder belt.
I was wondering if that would have caused the failure of the seatbelts or if they failed before?
The seat belts likely failed as the roof came off the truck.
Looks like there may have been an element of speed, by the F350. Sad, for all involved. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for the survivors and families.
Dam how fast was he going ...
So sad!
That truck had t be hauling ass to get destroyed like that ! My condolences to this family who lost their loved one and please slow down and pay attention this goes out to everyone
My goodness. R.I.P.
I'll say one thing if it wasn't for the truck being in that spot there would have more than likely been a lot of fatalities
I was thinking the same thing
Question what was the trailer park on side for?
Poor guy, rip. What bad timing to have a medical emergency 😢
Sending prayers 🙏🙏
When there's a loss of life in any situation its sad to me. God help this dear family. 😢🙏🙏😊
I never meant to hit the smilie emoji
Awful, just AWFUL!!! My prayers and condolences to the family of the deceased, and prayers for recovery of all surviving.
Trucks today are tinfoil and bubblegummed together. While cab and nose are just light aluminum. The frames are significantly lighter as well, made with cheap scrap steel with a thin single wall open channel. They don't make trucks like they used too. They just crumble up like a soda can.
I don’t think your taking in Acct for the workbed, it’s contents, weight. Speeding prob didn’t help the matter.
@@treydogg77
True, but also Ford's making the entire cab and bed made of aluminum doesn't help much. Soon all the truck manufacturers will follow, if not already.
@@thomasrodriguez7803 this utility truck was older than 2017 which meant it still used the steel body . You can see the old style flapper door handles at 19:47
@@VladimirBlarp: You're right, but he does make a good point about the newer pickup trucks made out of aluminum. My 2006 Dodge pickup wouldn't be a rust bucket if the cab and bed was aluminum, I only hope the thickness of the aluminum would add strength to the newer pickups and cars.
@@brianlanders8028 for example, when the "new" 2015 F150 debuted everyone made jokes about the aluminum, or how it melts in fire, blah blah blah. But in reality, in 2015 there was only ONE 5 star rated truck for crash protection and rollover protection, and that was the F150.
Fell asleep at the wheel , I. Bet
Dang. RIP
Man that is horrible.
That looked like a very high energy crash. Interesting that the impact point was on the side of the trailer furthest from the road. I wonder what caused the F350 to be that far out of lane.
There appear to be businesses facing the crash site. Perhaps they have cameras outside that might have caught the accident. My condolences to the families of the people in the crash.
tragic, condolences!
The truck drivers logs will be correct to the second because Hub Group runs top notch logs they watch all of there drivers like a hawk
There's a camera on that pole, ahead of the accident, on the right side......
DAMN !!!
During the collapses, the 911 WTC buildings "hit the ground with such a great force, they disintegrated into dust" (not my words, but those of a college educated reporter at the scene, on the day of the collapses). The same physics played out here. The heaily loaded utility work truck struck the heavy, stationary semi with such great force, the driver was instantly liquified.
The semi's tire marks shows that it was shoved foward from the force of impact. That utility truck was booking it
No vehicle should be parked along the highway. Get on the side road. Save lives folks
So very sad right here at the holidays. Prayers for the families.
that truck had to be going really fast, wonder why he lost control, maybe a health issue.
The one seat had its seatbelt buckled
Looks like the slow vehicles may have been hogging the overtaking lane.
Oh Boy!! That looks like a bad one.... Gotta pay attention people...
How amazing the passengers survived how fast was he going to move that semi 5 feet forward
RIP to the driver of the F350. Pretty hard hit to tear that truck up that much, no skid marks so he must have hit that trailer at 65 plus, and to hit the right rear corner he had to have been well off the road, since the semi was parked on the shoulder. Difficult investigation for a cause, and DOT will impound the tractor trailer and inspect every nut and bolt, as well as checking that the driver was fully in compliance. A bit hard to tell, but a couple drive tires on that tractor looked a bit sketchy to me, but maybe it was the angle of the picture taken. Hopefully the driver was all legal and good to go, that's a pretty tough situation to get over, even though he wasn't at fault.
The tires of the 18 wheeler had NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS ACCIDENT! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!! THE 18 WHEELER WAS BROKEN DOWN ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND HAD HIS WARNING TRIANGLES PUT OUT TO LET OTHERS KNOW THAT HE WAS BROKEN DOWN. THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP DROVE OFF OF THE HIGHWAY AND RAN INTO THE BACK OF THE TRAILER HOOKED TO THE 18 WHEELER!!! HOW DUMB ARE YOU ?
WOW , what a mess . Very sadding indeed for rhis to happen.
Jesus Christ on a motorbike, that work truck must've been going 400mph when it hit that big rig. Have never seen a car more pulverized.
Most Ford trucks of that year come from the factory with a road speed limiter that is usually set at the factory to about 75 to 80 miles per hour.
But with that body full of equipment ( that weight is pushing it all down the road) and if it is doing 80 mph and hits anything solid 🪨🪨 the force is so much greater, probably double, it has to destroy the moving object.
Been there and scene that happened. A driver ran under the back of a tractor trailer that was sitting on the side of the road 🛣️ away from the main road, it didn't stop till it hit the rear tires of the trailer, it took all of the roof and cut the driver's top of their body off ( had a white sheet covering the driver's area)
If it was because of a cell phone Please put the dam iPhone down when driving it's not worth your life.
How the hell do you hit the far right side of a truck pulled over to the right side of the road? He almost missed the truck for Christ’s sake.
This is so sad to hear 😢. I don't understand why he hit the back of this semi truck. Was this guy on his cellphone and not paying attention to the road. The driver had to be speeding for that van to split into. RIP for the man that got killed. Prayers for his family also. I am glad that the passenger and truck driver is okay. 😢🙏🙏
How much you want to bet the driver was on the phone and didn't even see the 18 wheeler!