Reply #31: Truck accident [View All]

I used to be a long haul trucker and I drove team. One night while my co-driver was driving and I was asleep in the bunk he had an accident. We were going about 60 mph down the highway and he hit the back end of a u-haul that was going about 30 mph. He hit the truck with the right front corner of ours and this caused a jack-knife and left us skidding into the median. The initial impact threw me out of the bunk and into the back of the seats. And then it was just this long skidding/screaching sound as we skid across the road and into the grass. I didn't see anything so for all I knew we were heading for a cliff. But that didn't happen and the truck came to a rest in the center of the median. Aside from a few bruises, everybody was okay. But I'll never forget that sound. I was actually very lucky, because if I'd have been up and in the passenger seat, I would have lost my legs from the knees down and possibly my life. The truck was one of those cab-over or hoodless types and the impact of the accident pushed the whole right front corner of the cab into the passenger seat.