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Feb 02, 2004 06:41


Sometimes, traffic accidents create very grotesque dynamics. Lucky if no one gets hurt. This one happened last Saturday when this trucker [maybe he fell asleep?] hit the guard rail of a highway viaduct. He lost control and mysteriously ended up on the opposite lane [there's a 60-70 meter deep and maybe 6-7 meter wide gap in between the lanes]. The ( Read more... )

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Tiertransporte tank_boy February 3 2004, 08:31:46 UTC
you are right. it was a Dutch truck belonging to a company transporting living animals (Johan van Schipstal, in B.V. Sint Hubert, Netherlands). the truck was empty.

the accident caused a damage of almost half a million Swiss Francs, there were more than 60 policemen, firefighters, a helicopter and special equipment and experts busy with the rescuing of the trailer out of the steep shore of the Vierwaldstättersee.

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the political thing about it is not only the animal transport, but those empty trucks driving (overtired) all across Europe.

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