Ouch! That's not how you lower a truck!

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A driver escaped injury after a pickup truck was crushed under a counter-weight on the Lakeshore Rd. Welland Canal bridge.
The incident happened Monday afternoon.
According to Niagara Regional Police, it's believed the driver failed to obey the barriers. The driver managed to get out of the truck before it was flattened by the counter-weight.
The investigation is ongoing. It's unclear what charges the driver may face.

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A friend of mine posted these on FB.

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That's one way to get the Cali chop top look! :D Glad the dude escaped injury though!
 
I found out last night that he is a fishing buddy of the guy that lives across the street from my daughter and her family.

Their neighbour is a pro fisherman and knew the guy from tournaments.

They were here on vacation and dropped in for a visit...
 
Pierre, that would have been one hell of an extraction if he was in the truck and didn't live, too. When I first saw the pictures my first thought was that someone had stuck the truck in a car crusher because of the neatness of the new roof. Although, when I used to crush cars we had to push inward on the a pillar with the fork of the forklift while the roof was caving in so that the pillar would collapse inward instead of outward. Let it bend outward and you end up with a load too wide on the flatbed that carries them to the shredder.
 
We've had our share of accidents with the bridges over the canal, but this is a first I believe.

We've had a lift bridge start rising too late and a ship hit it.

We've had people drive through the barriers and right into the water - not on the "ramp" side of the bridge that is levering up, but the other side that is just a straight drive off the edge of the road...

Beyond the bridges, the canal sees lots of cars and bicycles. There was a race car in there this year - just some local track car. I think I can find pics.

The canal is a pretty and pretty wild place.
 
cali chop top done cheep

its probably only me...but...i wonder if the frame is straight....for that mater aside from the cab/doors i wonder how much of the truck is actualy fine...something tells me cut the roof off and you could drive it
 
Looks to be Florida plates.

How would he explain it to his insurance claim?

Would restoman do the insurance work? buff it out?
 
69.5CUDA said:
its probably only me...but...i wonder if the frame is straight....for that mater aside from the cab/doors i wonder how much of the truck is actualy fine...something tells me cut the roof off and you could drive it
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I bet it would go down the road, but if you look at the pictures and ignore the cab section, it's pretty evident the frame is banana-shaped. Imagine the damage if those counterweights moved quickly... that thing would've been a bunch flatter.

In an unrelated question, why have Chevy trucks been designed to look like the exhaust exits the front of the truck for the past 10 years? I realizing they're just accentuating or highlighting the much-needed tow hooks, but that's really no better. :doh: :D
 
The frame will be bent and probably twisted as well as the front suspension. It crushed it down hard enough to bottom out and pop the tires.
 
It reminds me of when we were getting ready to open the Montgomery Pullapart. When the company bought the existing yard out, they inherited an old john deere loader. It didn't have any built-in regulation of how fast the forks came down. If you pushed the control lever full forward, it would drop the forks as fast as they wanted to fall (minus, of course, some resistance from the fact that hydraulic fluid still had to flow through stuff to let them come down). We also inherited a small forklift that didn't run and probably never would again. So, I picked up the little forklift with the loader and used it as an impromptu mobile car crusher. I'd simply raise it way up in the air and drop it down onto a vehicle that was going to be crushed anyway. It was especially effective on vans. I blew many a tire on crusher-bound cars that way.
 
Diplomat_Wagon said:
The frame will be bent and probably twisted as well as the front suspension. It crushed it down hard enough to bottom out and pop the tires.
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Yup. Toast.
1/2 ton Chevy truck frames are notoriously weak for anything other than straight-on towing and bed weight.

Looks like there is no rebound on the front suspension anymore, either.

Wonder if the driver felt like a complete tool while he watched his truck getting lowered?
 
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