Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials

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Two people killed in Texas after 350,000 pound load detaches from trailer, crushes vehicle: officials - Lemmy.World

Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!

That article is so garbage. Words missing, no real details, all the links are spam.
Highway 36 still closed after load accident killed two, injured one

Temple police confirmed that two people died and one was seriously injured after an oversize load came off its trailer Saturday.

25 News KXXV and KRHD

“Temple police confirmed that two people died and one was seriously injured after an oversize load came off its trailer Saturday.

Temple Fire and Rescue responded to the crash around 11 a.m. on State Highway 36, west of Highway 317.

Crews found the oversized load pinning a vehicle beneath. The load being hauled by the transport fleet was 350,000 lbs. It took four hours to extract one victim, who was flown to the ER with life threatening injuries.

Officials say the cause of the accident is still under investigation. The road remains closed at this time.”

The cause seems pretty obvious. Transporting an oversized load on a road that was obviously not designed to handle that kind of load safely. No public roads are really. The fact that it was even allowed on a public road is fucking appalling.
Yes we’ll just move these parts outside of the environment.
Or maybe move smaller safer pieces. It is a fucking PUBLIC road, may e the kind of thing that should be permitted to be safely and completely CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC if such an obviously dangerous load needs to use it. But, I guess a little government oversight and corporate ethics is too high a price compared to those dead citizens.
Or how about do it with strict safety regulations and/or in smaller parts?

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