Woman dies after car windshield hit by "volleyball-sized" rock on BC highway
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- A 34-year-old woman whose car was hit by a volleyball-sized rock as she drove on Highway 1 through Burnaby, B.C. last week has died.
While police do not believe the rock was dropped from an overpass, they still haven't determined exactly where it came from.
Angela Jung has the latest on the investigation, and details about the driver.
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One minute you’re going about your business, the next you’re gone. So tragic. 34 is way too young. Rest in peace.
It is a Sad Day when this happens .
I knew a guy nicknamed Smokey at Greenwood racetrack and he died of throat cancer from smoking cigars and he didn't even inhale the smoke. He died at age 34. He was strictly a show bettor.
Not really. Most people supposedly died in 30s in the Middle Ages. People live longer today so they don't rush to do everything they can. So its a shock when they kick the bucket.
So sad my heart dropped
@@guardianoffire8814 The booze back then didn't have quality control like today.
The local trucking industry has been way too loose for way too long. Like everything else in the Lower Mainland.
Hey, it takes a lot of tight coordinatinon to share 1 license between 4 drivers who look the same and share the same name. Sheesh!
@@J-tu3hw And their supervisor probably knows and told management - but was probably told to keep quiet or he would be fired.
@@J-tu3hw Their names are different, except for their middle name.
Brampton.
Out.
1 small ticket that carries points from a police officer will put a company driver that has 30 years experience off the road because it so expensive for insurance companies rather bring in new drivers with clean records it's like our experienced drivers our dispensable and cheaper just to be replaced
BC truckers are the worst in the country. They can’t strap a load if their lives depended on it. They weave in and out of the fast to slow lane like they were driving sports cars, speed, love to corner at speed then tip and loose their loads, often drive with missing lights, park brakes smoking away, loads on fire while driving, regularly drive into things such as bridges and tunnels. And BC Transport police are nowhere to be found. It’s just another day in lawless BC.
same in toronto on the major hwy's like the 401... im a competent driver but going through Toronto they terrify me. This just happened on friday on the 401.. i transport truck in front of me was weaving around a little and i thought Id better stay away from him.. then he just starts coasting into the lane to the left of him and the car there started to move over but didnt have enough room so on went the brakes but it was too late and the wheels of the truck destroyed the entire side of the car and and the guy freaked out and just slammed his car into the barrier to get away from the wheels. I have it on my dashcam.
@BergJager1 most of them come over here with minimum training.
Indians
Commercial Vehicle Enforment Unit BC was cut back by the BC Liberals to save cash and so tour bus drivers like to kill their guests. Truckers kill hockey teams. Our 3 % school stop signs show how slimy we are.
This is usually dump trucks, where the rock gets wedged between the duals. It's the driver's responsibility to check before leaving a pit or job site. Most of the time , a large rock will have to be "barred" out using a long steel bar. Otherwise, it eventually will work itself out as the truck moves, with the results you see in this video. The push for more loads means drivers aren't given the time to check, and sometimes, it's just lazy truckers who don't want to do it.
I see stuff falling off of dump trucks all the time.. when they get loaded up some of it lands on other parts of the trucks structure then they head out to the hwy.. happens ALL THE TIME. I've learned not to go near them when Im forced to follow.. Ive had 3 windshields cracked in my 20 years of driving from them. I saw a cop pull over one about a year ago because so many rocks were falling off his dump truck here in Ottawa on the Queensway hwy.. i was staying back and I could see stuff skating all over the road behind him.. luckily a cop was near by and pulled him over.
@@user-xj5xp6qz5g Agreed, It seems like dump trucks are everywhere in BC. In Aldergrove and Abbotsford, there's one or two in most front yards!1 Loads need to be tarped, within the confines of the bed, and drivers absolutely must check their duals.
You know when you have a rock wedged in your duellies. That is just plain stupidity on the drivers part if that happened.
Your entire truck shakes and wobbles, even with rocks much smaller than described here.
Any comercial truck that goes off road .. logging truck are the worse ..as they drive on muddy roads. And they don't clean off before getting on hwy !
@@user-xj5xp6qz5g most likely kids throwing rocks trucks not impossible to do that forced no way
Over filled dump trucks, always been a big problem
trucker here, yes you are right but we have them in between the paired tires. We drive on them but when we leave a site were supposed to get our hammers and bang those out and brush off debris. This is more than likely debris from a semitruck or pickup.
It doesn't from the dump box they're wedged between the dual tires
This is sad news....
Now, hello truckers, you are responsible for your load.
But, nothing will be done about this .
It was described in this video that the rock could have been picked up from the road and logged between the tandem tires and then thrown. Yes, It's sad, and we need to seek the actual cause and possibly do something about what was described as a potential known problem. Rocks that can get picked up in between truck tires and thrown. Let's look into that along with the possibility that the rock was somehow lost out of a truck bed load, among other possibilities.
Use your brain. A truck with a dump isnt going to be individually strapping down each rock. If that is what happened it was her fault because she would've been tailgating the semi truck.
@@joesixpack-vz1yq how about use your brain.
truck from other direction and yes they should inspect their truck before entering the roadway from a construction site, but I bet your one of those responsible truck drivers who work so hard....
besides they would hear that rock stuck between the two tires....
@@bobsch-gd6ze" besides they would hear that rock stuck between the two tires"..........ha ha, you've obviously never driven a big truck if you think such things...so funny
@@joesixpack-vz1yq hmmm.. the rock doesnt need to fly far...but 100 km going towards it...leaves very little time to react even at 4 car lengths behind...Most people will freeze for 2-4 secs before reacting..Male reaction time is way faster then women...
Just yesterday I was driving behind a dump truck that wasn't covered and garbage was flying out as it was driving. We need more regulators or police focusing on keeping these trucks operating within the law. The laws exist, but are being ignored.
A law that is not enforced is the same as having no law at all.
DOT and Scale houses. We only have 3 in the entire lower mainland. We used to have 4 one just before the Port Mann however they removed it and never put one back in. There is nothing on Hwy 1 between Hope and Prince George I think. 1 scale house in Delta Alex Fraser
Hope Hwy 1 has scale and Prince George. One before entering the canyon as well.
Dear lord we already have them out there crawling around under trucks trying to nail them for anything and everything. Unless you're suggesting they stop spending so much time doing that and more focusing on things that are actually posing serious risks.
Edit: reading the comments a lot of people are talking about lower mainland, I don't live there so maybe there's a problem I'm not seeing.
@@anthonyhiscox I drove all of Canada and most of the USA only been checked a handful of times. The idea that they are everywhere is not correct and when your driving a Commercial Vehicle these check need to be more frequent and keeping owners and drivers accountable.
@@rockyjohnson9243 So an overloaded transport could drive from Vancouver all the way to Hope without having to stop at a scale?
RIP. The blood is on the hands of truck driver, the trucking company and the government for allowing the industry to fall apart.
More often this day, my car has been getting hit by gravel rocks on the highway.
I see stuff falling off of dump trucks all the time.. when they get loaded up some of it lands on other parts of the trucks structure then they head out to the hwy.. happens ALL THE TIME. I've learned not to go near them when Im forced to follow.. Ive had 3 windshields cracked in my 20 years of driving from them. I saw a cop pull over one about a year ago because so many rocks were falling off his dump truck here in Ottawa on the Queensway hwy.. i was staying back and I could see stuff skating all over the road behind him.. luckily a cop was near by and pulled him over.
Me too mate! My windshields cracks have cracks
So tragic. Rest in peace.
2 years ago, same location going East bound, a rock the size of a pumpkin hit me head on - there was zero time to react. The impact took out my oil pan, sub frame and damaged several other mechanical pieces under the car. ICBC told me it was a "collision" and does not qualify for comprehensive coverage because "I hit the rock" even tho it hit me and I had it on dashcam. Costed me over 2k but at least it stayed under my car... My heart goes out to this lady and her family / friends.
Icbc is horrible in these types of situations, they don’t care about road safety, you have to sue them to get results.
Either someone purposely threw a rock from an overpass or its a freak accident, my condolences to her family!
Not a freak accident, these Truck drivers are supposed to inspect their trucks after leaving the pit etc. 2nd time this week.
Nah because the rock smashed through the front window at a speed high enough to kill the driver and go through the back window of the vehicle.
You need to learn how to listen and process the information provided. The reporter said it happened nowhere near an overpass, so it wasn't tossed overboard.
@@e-curb that doesn't overrule the fact that someone still could have tossed the rock on the highway from an overpass as the rock could have been stumbling along the hwy and probably got caught underneath a large vehicle and shot out from there.
@@dynasty5053 1% chance. I have driven 36 States 7 provinces and not once has their been a Rock that big on the road. Other than from a rock slide.
In many other countries Trucks are required to have wheal shields preventing such incidents - Why don't we have them?
They are supposed to inspect there trucks after leaving the gravel pit etc.
I have literally witnessed chunks of granite getting lodged in between when driving thru a landscape site. I remember a couple big guys having a pain with prying them out and all i could think was what if that were to fly out.. Here we are 5 years later with this scenario. Tragic. Tragic tragic tragic.
Terrible tragedy. Condolences to her family.
the truck that sped past me had sort of what seemed to be a bedsheet cover which was flapping openly anyways and a tiny rock flew and made a small dent in my windshield but the sound was more alarming cuz i thought it was a huge rock, thank god for windshields >_> .. but those trucks need to slow down ughhhhh
Those countries are way ahead in safety and technology, Canada is more of a third world country run by paid off politicians that just don't care.
I've been driving a truck for a long time and I've never driven over a road where it would be possible to get a "volleyball sized" rock wedged between my tires.
It was likely thrown from another vehicle ahead of her!
Yeah, "volleyball-sized" seems like it might be an exaggeration, judging from the size of the hole in the windshield.
it would have broken the axels, I find it hard considering I could feel a pebble in a modern cars tire.
Lugging trucks do and dump trucks do. All the time
In the time it takes a dump truck to make it to a freeway, it is difficult to imagine a rock that could stay wedged between tires that long. A vehicle traveling the same way would have a load with momentum also traveling in the same way at the same speed-how would it "fall" on the vehicle behind it, unless you were almost under the rear of the vehicle or the dump truck hit a large bump? It would have to be from a vehicle going in the other direction I would think, but then how does it get over into the other lane? Overpass seems the most logical (?). 🤔
i stay away from trucks like wildfire
Sadly, big trucks are everywhere in the Lower Mainland. This morning I got stuck between two large dump trucks. The light turned green but I couldn't go because that stupid truck in front of me was taking forever to turn right.
That might just be the worst simile I have ever heard.
You are smart to keep your distance from trucks. I used to drive tow truck. Every time I had a completely destroyed car or something else sketchy (for instance an ice shanty that was poorly constructed yet I was expected to haul) where I had to reduce speed to prevent debris from blowing off, there was always some numbscull driving 4' behind me. Same tailgater would come completely unglued if something hit their car.
Sounds like we need some changes to a) truckers inspecting their tires more frequently b) perhaps a new tire design is called for to prevent this from happening
💔 rip
I was a passenger in a car years ago, when a sugar beet from a truck ahead bounced out of the truck and hit the middle of the windshield, at highway speeds. The driver held the wheel steady and it didn't penetrate the windshield but it was a scary moment. The edge of disaster is closer than we think.
Thanks, now I have the sugar beet song stuck in my head.
My condolences to the family of the victim.
this time not china fault?
@@hink0027 It's Chinese fault, the careless truck driver who dropped a big rock on front of her.
@@AhmetTekin101 not your father the one who drive truck?
@@hink0027
@@AhmetTekin101 why your mom still offering service in mumbai? she should go to new york , so many your kind there want to get some service
Although we don't know for sure if it was from a commercial vehicle or not, this should be a reminder that dangerous loads must be secured extremely well with no margin for error.
Truckers kill junior hockey teams. Lawful behaviour does not make them rich, Patriot.
They need to make truckers personally liable if they do not check to make sure there are no rocks stuck between the dual wheels and the load is secured before entering a highway and attach a prison sentence and lifetime driving ban if someone gets killed by truck driver laziness
Sincerest condolences , how tragic. I hope they find the person responsible !
Truckers kill junior hockey teams, do you think they care about you and me?
Iv got 3 cracks on my windshield, the same stretch of hwy, all 3 from rocks coming off dumptruck tires over the corse of a year... Fixed the first one, then gave up....
It sounds like bullets hitting the damn window. Thankfully, small rocks... DANGEROUS!
RIP to this young woman. It is so tragic & heartbreaking.
Semis have been driving in the left / fast / passing lane FAR too much lately.
Cars have been not letting trucks merge far too much lately
In Canada time to make mandatory equip cars with dash cam . In Asia it's 90% cars equipped.
Last time a large generator, size of an air conditioner, dropped from the truck before me and came flying towards my windshield. Luckily i swerved and there was no car next to me otherwise I would have died. The truck in front kept going and was clueless what happened.
@Mangoice557 how horrible! I’m so glad you were fortunate enough to manoeuvre your way around it.. many are not. Unsecured loads need to be more heavily penalized, apparently.
We need more DOT road side inspections and a lot more scale houses. They removed the only one on hwy 1 between like Prince George all the way to Hope. Only other one in the lower mainland is on the Surrey side of the Alex Fraser
@@rockyjohnson9243 that’s crazy! My husband drives a chip truck in and out of PG on highway 16 and he usually has to stop in at the scales both ways. (I’m not sure about going North and south of Prince George on #97)Sometimes DOT is there as well. He has to do his own inspections on the truck before leaving any yards as well. There are computers and dash cameras in all the trucks that time everything they do so it will show if they’re re not taking the time to do they’re inspections etc. Things need to be tightened up in the industry so that cameras and computers are standard in every truck.
free generator!
@@Jackielocks at the scale they have inspectors as well that randomly do checks. In the USA at certain scales along the way they have inspection sites where they have you drive into a big shop with Pit
so don't have to crawl under it to do these checks. Honestly I took my Truck to the mechanic at the end of every month or 2 to have a full check up and they even missed stuff that those places where able to identify for me. Having a high level of safety for these trucks is just common sense and we need to step up in Canada to make Road side inspections more routine and more permanent scale houses with proper facilities on site.
A rock 30cm Does Not get stuck between wheels. It is DROPPED from an overpass. The space between duels is 24-48mm at best. This would be murder, not an accident.
You clearly know nothing about trucks and there wasn't a nearby overpass.
@petesmitt 30cm is a 12 inch round rock. I own a dually vehicle and there is no way a rock that big can get between the wheels. As too the lack of overpass that wasn't obvious in the article.
Gotta ask how a truck would get such a large rock jammed between tires in the first place.
This accident is tragic. But a volleyball-sized rock got picked up in a tire? That size doesn't make any sense. Who writes these stories?
Pay attention in class! Big rocks get wedged BETWEEN the dual tires.
@@e-curb Impossible. There's not a gap large enough to accommodate a rock that size between the dual tires. If you actually looked at a truck, you'd know this.
@@user-zr6pl6nb6zyeah it seems kinda big to be wedged in dually tires. Maybe it was kicked up somehow
@@user-zr6pl6nb6z You realize tires are made of rubber right? A SOLID ROCK will cause the rubber to bend and change its form.
@@Crt5 Way too big. Of course, the two "geniuses" in this thread think tires are made of some kind of incredibly flexible rubber that can accommodate an aircraft carrier being wedged between them.
I have flagged a few trucks over with rocks stuck in there wheels and I have
been told to mind my own Business. Quote .It will come out on its OWN !
Call CVSE and they will give them a big fine
After truckers killed junior hockey teams and invaded Ottawa and terrified the elderly - WE'RE NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I always tell my wife and myself to stay back away from heavy vehicles because they have smaller rocks in their wheels and when they hit bumps those rocks 🪨 gets lose and hit the windshield and front of the car.
Me and my friend were almost killed on hwy 1 in chilliwack when I swerved out of the way of a dumpster bin on the highway!
Like hitting a house when drunk. Were you drunk and not paying attention?
I’ve been hit from a rock that came off a truck and called the business
They told me to F off prove it !
My fathers business had a flat deck truck to haul machinery two kids threw a rock off an overpass in Edmonton white mud fwy years ago. Nothing can be done they ran away an no access to chase
That was so scary it destroyed the windshield nearly hitting the driver Al.
Wow
When they invaded Ottawa, no one was impressed. Terrorizing the capital's elderly after killing a junior hockey team was smooth................................
I don't know about B C. But in Ontario before you take your truck out in the morning your required to do a "Safety Circle" before moving any commercial vehicle. During the check, inspecting between the dual wheels is required. What a terrible tragedy. Sending out prayers for the victims and families ❤🙏😪
Why are they hiding the boulders identity?
😂😂😂 Just a guess, but it's so that similar-looking boulders aren't wrongfully persecuted.
We desperately need the various commercial vehicle inspections ramped up so that EVERY transport truck gets inspected while on the road. We can no longer trust these operators to conform to laws they seem unaware of.
The BC LIberals cut back the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement unit to save money. Eby also likes dead patriots. 200,000 jaywalkering tourists outside his rose-coloured windows, but he is too smug to care. David Eby is too superior for us victims................................. When his staff run a poltical campaign, they are sure to blow stop signs and cheer him on. Victioroa's 3 % school stop signs say it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Slimy, corrupt and evil...........................
Had a baseball sized rock fly at me from a school bus tire, that was a couple months ago and I kept. It's wild and so random, my thoughts go out to her family.
Condolences to her friends and family
That’s horrifying actually. Rip.
Nothing for the Industry that kills junior hockey teams and invaded Ottawa. They shine and the terror is continous. Like Velocitized drivers terrorizing urban cyclists and pedestrians. Too complex for our tiny minds. Once the BC Liberals cut back the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement unit by 40% and the NDP kept it cut back, the terror is everywhere. But the public could care less. They are proud of our sexy 3% school stop signs and these bored folks love exciting British Columbia's "Daily Death Road Casino." Thank you Mr Eby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
more immigrant truck drivers?
Wow, hard not to cry.
Hopefully there is some dash cameras that will be able to show what happened.
What a terrible freak accident 😢 poor woman and her family and friends
The truck drivers need to check out carefully their tires and what could stuck in between them before hitting the way.
The vast majority of us do, to be fair. They don't state that a rock in the duals was the cause, just a potential one.
A rock as large as what they stated can get stuck, if one or both tires are down a bit on pressure, but you will blow one or both, pop the beads, or something similar, loosing the rock right then (if that wasn't noticed either, and the driver continued driving) before getting much past 30 or 40kph, and you'll know it's there long before that, even if it's a trailer dual too. Not to mention bending the rims in the process....
Tires are in the $750-$1000 range, rims $200 rang for steel and $1000ish if aluminum... not to mention lost revenue from downtime and cost of sending out the mechanics truck or calling one out from a tire shop.
Rubber will be visible on a rock that was in the duals as well.
Now, a large apple/orange sized rock could go unnoticed long enough to make it to a highway speed and not do catastrophic damage to the tires, but it will prematurely fail, instead of getting to a point of wearing out and getting your money's worth.
Could have came from many different scenarios I can think of, some commercial and many being private/personal vehicles and/or trailers and what's being hauled. I'm not going to detail them all out, but I've seen plenty of volleyball sized rock like they say in the video laying in people's small open style cargo trailers that only have 12 to 18 inch high sides. They use it to block the tire when it's unhooked, out under the Ramps or back bumper so it doesn't tilt while they're loading or unloading something like a riding lawnmower, quads, snowmobiles, etc.... and it is scary to see, knowing how much these little trailers bounce when they're empty. I see things bouncing our of them all the time.
Whatever came through this unfortunate young ladies glass also came from something that was traveling towards her and had come over the center concrete barrier, not from something traveling in the same direction.
I'm not trying to dismiss your statement, but between the poor quality information coming from today's emotion baiting style of "journalism" and the echo chambers of most social media, people don't get to learn about something new to their life experience.
It's getting hard for good,safe, and committed to the job to enter or even want to stay in our industry due to costs and frustrations that rules and requirements pushed on top us by the assumptions and emotional reactions people not intimately familiar with the whole industry make. And the quality, of both the drivers and the equipment that is used, is going down quickly.
I honestly hope that if you gained anything new and now consider that he rock from the duals of an irresponsible driver is not the cause of what happened here, that you maybe let someone else, that otherwise wouldn't, know that we as a majority aren't all unprofessional and unsafe but it won't be long before that's the case if the attitudes toward us keep getting worse.
Thanks for reading this if you have.
The lower mainland is a massive joke there's never any accountability.
Dumptrucks are the most dangerous vehicles and the drivers worst of the commercial drivers...
in between truck tires like a canon that's one i havn't heard before
just think about it for a minute...a big rock gets lodged between the tires at a rest stop, or a fuel stop....once the truck is moving at hiway speed, the mass of the rock spinning at ever increasing speed is going to overcome whatever is holding it in place, thus shooting out from the spinning wheel like a cannon....Simple physics, and really an accident, more than anything....You cant bubble wrap society, and you cant lay blame for everything...
@@steveharrigan7811 It is called Centrifugal Force. That 6" Rock leaving a wheel at 50 KM ? More than 50 tons of energy
1:30 Yes, dual wheels are the main problem. We got hit by a rock at a construction site near Chocrane, AB. It happened
a f t e r an oncoming truck passed us. The rock was hurled up into the air and crashed on our windshield but thank GOD nothing happened to us.
No video at all either :(
Truckers seem to be getting less and less responsible.
Why do trucks still have duel wheels at all when the super wides are more fuel efficient?
Ive been hit by stones from gravel trucks overloaded and not tarped properly. Bad habbits from the old country.
So sad, My heart goes out to her family
No remote viewers on BC highways? Prayers
'we dont know' where else could it come from, the sky?
Thinking of the family of victim. Praying for peace and comfort during this difficult time.
this is probably off topic, but my aunt taught me to roll down the window and wave to everyone who's walking across an overpass that you're about to drive under. That way if they're about to drop something onto your car, they think you've recognized them and will be able to ID them, and they leave you alone. So sorry for her and her family...
I've seen very large rocks come off dump trucks. Just recently one caused $2k damage on a friend's car. Severely damaged his drivers side A-pillar and fender. A few inches to the right and it could have gone through his windshield in front of his face.
Dashcams has to be installed from the manufacturers on every new car
Or stop cuttying back the Commercial Vehicle Enforcment Unit. The BC Liberals cut it back 40 % and the NDP really like the terror, deaths and corruption, so they keep the C.V.E. Unit cut back. THANK YOU MR EBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a case in Surrey on the King George Highway around 1980 where "something" went through the front and back windows of a pick-up, decapiating the driver. Later, the cap off a fire hydrant was found in the bed of the truck. It was assumed to have been straddled by a double tire of a cargo truck and flung forward at the pick-up. Relative to the pick-up, the cap was moving at triple the speed limit.
Yet another reason to stop 🛑 what we’re doing and look at the autobahn - trucks are separated all the way down the highway. From Holland to Italy - not a single accident and no speed limit.
Prayers for the family
Condolences to the family and friends and coworkers
Don’t drive near big trucks :(
I don't know the full story, but this is why mudflaps are so extremely important. So many operators don't replace their mudflaps as they see it as an unnecessary expense
Unfortunately this has become too common in Edmonton, especially on the Whitemud pedestrian overpasses and as recent as just two months ago. A couple of years back the same size rock was thrown off and went through the windshield of a school bus killing the driver.
Terrible incident. Had similiar encounter, passing a rock crusher. Big rock (baseball size), flying off back of vehicle, hit my windshield in the middle of vehicle. Like slow motion rock coming at you. Then right through windshield right beside me. Windshield shattered million pieces. Drove straight to nearest auto glass location.
A young Alberta trucker, on his way to BC, demanded we (customers at a local eatery) thank him for his service. Some of them seriously think of themselves as heroes. QUIT it. Do your job properly.
Do u not expect Courtesy from your customers?
Condolences indeed😢
The hole isnt big enough to be volleyball sized. Why do you people lie? What is it with the national enquire mentality?
install cameras on the highway
Sue the trucking company! That industry is so corrupt that they bribe govts to let them get away with this. Either they check their tires each time they leave or they put guards to prevent that! The trucking company is LIABLE!
That should never happen,it's called poor road maintenance.Those roads shouldn't be off the road
Why are Canadians now suddenly vastly outnumbered in overcrowded Canadian cities?
Shouldn’t Canadian homes be owned and occupied by Canadians?
It seems these rocks only target women.
lol
Rock misogyny. Also known as lithomisogyny. It's a thing, you know.
Kids throwing rocks no way a truck can do that impossible probably random person did over the years they through small rocks it's time of year kids getting into trouble they probably picked it up and dumped the rocked
From where? There wasn't an overpass anywhere near where it happened.
Kids throwing boulders from the side of the highway?
Extremely strong kids. The worst kind!
@@Crt5 couples of years ago overpass
thank you for getting your audio levels correct!
Lol.....Maybe its the 100s of homeless encampments in that area. Not surprised one bit.
Thats heartbreaking
What ever happened to circle checks?
To prevent such things.😢
What a loss of life, her co-workers her family her friends so sad.😭😭😭
🌹🌹🌹 REST IN PEACE DEAR ...
If from a large truck, they are completely liable. No large rock like that comes from a highway. It would have merged onto a highway from industrial areas. The driver failed to inspect his rig before entering public road systems.
Thats why duallys have way smaller gaps in other countries
Smaller than what? Try to wedge a "volleyball sized" rock between the duals on a Canadian truck. I dare ya. It won't fit.
@@user-zr6pl6nb6z wait till you learn that tires can flex and make space for debris especially when they are loaded
@@abhishekgupta5315 I know more than you. Guaranteed. Dual wheels will NOT flex to accommodate a "volleyball sized" anything between them.
No camera on the car?
The stone and gravel industry is responsible for almost every broken windshield in the country. In northern BC it's also logging trucks. Yet we are expected to foot the bill? Sometimes with our lives?
In 10 years I've had to replace my windshield 3 times. The last was a rock the size of a plum launched from the top of a flapping "safety" tarp which struck eye-level on the driver's side and almost came through. Not three months later I already had a pebble chip from another gravel truck, which required repair.
This nonsense has got to stop - and the simplest way to do it is to make the loose-material trucking industry pick up the tab for replacement as well as compensation to its victims.
Stronger mud flaps would prevent that from happening. What do you want to bet that not one politician comes forward to suggest a regulation to require rock blocking shields behind the rear tires.
Check your Load before you hit the Road sheesh 🙄‼️.
Also rocks have been thrown from overpasses
In the article they said it happened between overpasses,
We can't control the trucks, we know there is a problem. Just a reminder to stay well back, follow at a safe distance and don't tailgate. This is tragic
I had a big chunk of steel come through my windshield once and planted itself in the back seat. Scary as hell. It was part of a chain off a logging truck.
I was driving up by McBride BC. This black sedan went by me and the passenger threw out the rock which hit the passenger side of my windshield on the bottom corner and shattering the windshield pretty good all these truckers that go into gravel pits. Should stop and check their duels to make sure no rocks are not stuck in the tires
Very sad,condolences to the family and friends 🙏
I read once of a vehicle kicking out a fire hydrant port cover and it killed a man driving a pickup truck. The cover was found in the cargo bed of the pickup truck.
With ALL the traffic on there, how the hell are there no witnesses????!! SOMEONE had to have seen SOMETHING, ...so many people have dashcams of any little thing, there's GOT to be some kind of evidence/witness to this.
Poojeet Singh strikes again?
Remember travelling towards lougheed station on lougheed west bound and felt a huge rock hit my driver door and sure enough it was a rock and left a big dent. This all happened a couple weeks ago and lirterally felt like someone threw it
I’ve seen this way too many times with these dump trucks with ill regard to public safety having rocks and debris fall off their poorly maintained trucks. I’ve had a rock crack my windshield on the Knight Street Bridge. Something has to be done about this.
so incredibly sad. Condolences to all effected by this tragedy.
They should redesign these tires
May her soul rest in peace
If you have a cracked windshield, you must get it repaired. The windshield will not hold up to a significant impact such as a large rock. A proper installed and crack free windshield could save your life
thats very sad