Sicamous bridge truck crash

lilduke

lilduke

Active VIP Member
Joined
Sep 15, 2009
Messages
19,182
Reaction score
68,199
Location
Local
Mike270412 said:
How fawkin fast was he going? Isn't that a 50 zone?
Click to expand...

No idea how fast he was going. I never have drove a semi off a 75 foot drop into the shushawp either, so not sure what exactly that looks like.

but there you have it.
 
B

bobsledder

Active VIP Member
Joined
Jan 11, 2009
Messages
2,826
Reaction score
6,119
Location
Not Sure
About a 60 foot drop into 30 feet of water. These guys come down that hill at 100 to 110 k into a 60 k zone. It's a curve onto bridge heading down hill. He hit curb and there goes right front steer tire. Bounced a couple times like a pinball side to side before plunging over. Maybe was upside down before going over?
Sure wasn't swerving to miss a car. Truckers between Vancouver and Calgary are out of control. Between inexperienced new to Canada and aggresive old white guys it is a dangerous drive.
 
L

LUCKY 7

Active VIP Member
Joined
Jan 17, 2009
Messages
7,039
Reaction score
10,685
Location
Sparwood
bobsledder said:
About a 60 foot drop into 30 feet of water. These guys come down that hill at 100 to 110 k into a 60 k zone. It's a curve onto bridge heading down hill. He hit curb and there goes right front steer tire. Bounced a couple times like a pinball side to side before plunging over. Maybe was upside down before going over?
Sure wasn't swerving to miss a car. Truckers between Vancouver and Calgary are out of control. Between inexperienced new to Canada and aggresive old white guys it is a dangerous drive.
Click to expand...
On the weekend I was chatting with a trucker and he knows that road and the bridge and explained about the curve and how lots of guys fly down there and slam on the brakes
 
L

Lem Lamb

Active VIP Member
Joined
Apr 5, 2010
Messages
4,252
Reaction score
7,762
Location
Lacombe AB
The traffic in bc sucks...

Too slow is not good...
Too fast is asking for it...

A person cant even drive a regular pace with out some noodle-head messing things up...

Inpatience and frustration lead too risky maneuvers...

Folks can't even slow down while exiting the hwy without getting run into...

Heads up gang,,, don't let other drivers drag you into a Grizzly Bear Trap ...

Leave that space,,, tap the brake lights,,, look-waaaaay-ahead and Extrem cation from behind...

There are Wolves in the dark forests !!!

Just saying is all...
 
T

tejay

Active VIP Member
Joined
Dec 20, 2010
Messages
2,025
Reaction score
8,144
Location
stoke
team dirt

team dirt

Active VIP Member
Joined
Oct 17, 2008
Messages
2,141
Reaction score
5,832
Location
brooks ab/seymour arm
Website
www.sledseymourarm.ca
I have apprentices that have 2 years experience and I wouldn’t call them experienced by any means. 2.5 years is not experienced at all. He was going way to fast and smoked the cement block then bounced and hit the other curb before slamming through the rail. That’s not experience. The highway from field to salmon arm is the most scary thing I do in my life. I have had so many close calls on that stretch.
 
snopro

snopro

Active VIP Member
Joined
Mar 3, 2009
Messages
108,162
Reaction score
104,237
Location
Milo,Alberta
In all fairness though 90% of Canadian truck drivers are East Indians or Sikhs. There are bound to be more in accidents just by probability. In the US most guys driving are white guys. Is there that big a wage disparity between countries?
 
snopro

snopro

Active VIP Member
Joined
Mar 3, 2009
Messages
108,162
Reaction score
104,237
Location
Milo,Alberta
team dirt said:
I have apprentices that have 2 years experience and I wouldn’t call them experienced by any means. 2.5 years is not experienced at all. He was going way to fast and smoked the cement block then bounced and hit the other curb before slamming through the rail. That’s not experience. The highway from field to salmon arm is the most scary thing I do in my life. I have had so many close calls on that stretch.
Click to expand...
We got cut off by Field by a new Canadian. Scared the hell out of us but saved being in a head on. I wanted to stop at the first brake check and give the guy a piece of my mind but buddy that was driving wouldn’t. Didn’t want to create a scene. I told him we were almost the scene. We never talked all the way to Revy.
 
C

ctd

Active VIP Member
Joined
Dec 14, 2016
Messages
515
Reaction score
1,496
Location
In Elevation
If this bridge could talk, frightening stories would be told. A multitude of wrecks & many lives have been lost, this is first when the catch rail has not retained the bodies. Debris has landed in the channel previously, never bodies.

So lucky no innocent people were taken out, that could have been boaters or the brave souls that cross the bridge walking or biking. Never mind the thousands of vehicles that use the bridge daily.

The Taliban drivers have taken these wrecks to new level.
 
B

bobsledder

Active VIP Member
Joined
Jan 11, 2009
Messages
2,826
Reaction score
6,119
Location
Not Sure
LUCKY 7 said:
I assume they will retrieve the truck and trailer?
Click to expand...
It has been pulled from the lake, driver removed from cab area on Sunday afternoon and then hauled away this morning.
A lot of cargo was amazon boxes floating and channnel current carried it out in front of Sicamous sands beach. Some of the local finest was out there by 7 AM looting the pile. Accident happened at 6:45 AM. The story of swerving to miss a car has been ruled out by the RCMP. Semis going to fast and blowing off corners is a daily event between Sicamous and Salmon Arm.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
New posts

Similar threads

Summitric
The roadside safety risk EVs pose
Replies
1
Views
941
jhurkot
jhurkot
Summitric
Long-Haul EVs
Replies
0
Views
1K
Summitric
Summitric
Summitric
How autonomous technology is trending
Replies
4
Views
361
jhurkot
jhurkot
maxwell
Best thing I have ever purchased
    • Like
Replies
0
Views
1K
maxwell
maxwell
Summitric
NHTSA wants extended seat belt reminders
Replies
0
Views
1K
Summitric
Summitric
Top Bottom