Re: Watched an accident happen before my very eyes

Posted by DaveJWI on December 26, 2004 at 08:47:46 from (216.127.194.114):

In Reply to: Watched an accident happen before my very eyes! posted by RayP(MI) on December 25, 2004 at 17:47:46:

I'll add my two cents.

1.) Helping friends haul used demo car to salvage yard using a towbar, the hitch broke off the towbar and the demo car left the road and proceeded into the ditch where it broke off the stoplight pole. I was following behind on my motocycle and had the stoplight crash to the ground about one foot to my right. I did not know that they did not run a safety chain on the towbar this time, but would have failed anyway, as where they would have looped the chain through tore open when the hitch broke. This was an old towbar that had been used many, many times. This one cost us about $500 for a new stoplight and my buddy a fine for reckless driving. We payed the fines and figured we got off lucky. That light could have fallen a foot farther over on me or the car could hit other traffic.

2.)I have gone through a streak of forgetting to raise the jacks all the way on equipment. So I borrowed my cousin's cattle trailer and got distracted while hitching up when I realized I still had the jack down and stopped to put it up so I wouldn't forget. Well I got everything hooked up and dropped the trailer pulling out of his driveway. When I got distracted I missed latching the hitch. Fortunately I was just entering the road and thus the trailer stopped right away due to lack of momentum. In this case the hooks on this safety chain did fail also.

I don't mean to trivialize the seriousness of any of these instances, but just point out that mistakes and failures will happen occasionly even if you try to avoid them. GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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