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[California]

Towing in the wrong place:

RV is free after spending a week stuck on Lime Creek Road

A Colorado man driving a 38-foot motor home is finally free after spending about a week marooned on Lime Creek Road, a narrow and rugged dirt road high in the San Juan Mountains north of Durango. The ...

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Bruce

It was great entertainment at our mining camp to watch the occasional fool who attempted to cross the ford that was all watermelon or larger slippery rocks, without walking it first to choose a good line. The biggest thing I pulled out of there with the Wagoneer was a USFS dump truck that wasn't high-centered but couldn't climb over something slippery.

But best of all was the time a retired school bus got stuck like that RV in Colorado, at a tight curve on the far side of the canyon. It wasn't off the edge like the Colorado guy. Just jammed front and rear against the vertical bank, while climbing a steep grade. They spent a day and a half digging at the wall, compacting a fill on the downhill side, and trying to horse the back end of the bus sideways pushing with a F-250.

Typical terrain, northern Sierras. Was rich gold mining country 150 years ago, now just logging trails that are maintained only when there is an active timber sale.

(Confession - I posed that second photo, zig-zagging the front sideways from a passable washout over to where it is in the photo. Photo about 1975.)

Added - I found an old photo typical of what that ford looks like a year or two after a logging contract ends and nobody is maintaining it.
Here we're sucking tiny gold fragments from crevices with a backpack-sized dredge.

 

[Jstpssng]

This was a known problem, but apparently wasn't a priority.

In March 2021, a small group of men met at a rural railroad crossing in northern Missouri that locals had long been complaining about because of its steep grade and lack of visibility.

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[California]

Your mail will be a little late today.

 

[5030]

Had the same scenario here this spring. Mail carrier dropped off a package and attempted to drive out around the front barn and it was very soggy. Dropped the mail truck to the frame. Had to yank him out with one of the tractors. Pretty gutless anyway.

 

[5030]

This was a known problem, but apparently wasn't a priority.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...ng-site-of-deadly-amtrak-crash/ar-AAZ2DYR[/UR

http://Good post.

 

[5030]

I don't have a lot of sympathy for RVers that don't plan their trips/routes better.


I don't see that one. That road has a number, but I'm not sure if it's a state or county road. In a sane world, the liability is a mix between the rail company, the road department or engineers that established that route and whatever entities are responsible for maintaining it. I see absolute zero liability on the truck driver. Those pictures make it appear there is a clear line of sight, but one story placed the train speed at 87 MPH. That means the train may have been well over a mile away and likely out of sight of the driver as he approached. Signals should detect a train at that speed something like five miles from the crossing, if not ten.

A motor vehicle operator can't yield to a train they don't know is approaching.


Motor Carrier units should be all over that one. This is another one of those RVers that need to be dealt with.

For the life of me, I fail to understand the mentality of motor home drivers going off road in the first place but at least they had a comfortable place to sleep and eat. Great vacation.

We have an RV as well. A slide in truck camper that fits in the bed of our F350 4x4 and I take it off road, within reason.

 

[Diggin It]

When you're gonna haul your tail into oblivion, do it big.

1 person dead in accident at Michigan air show involving jet-powered truck​

ABC|18 hours ago
Video captured the truck crashing on a runway. One person is dead after an accident during the "pyrotechnic portion" of an air show in Michigan, police said. The incident occurred Saturday shortly after 1 pm...

 

[duramaxsky]

That's really sad.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Terrible accident! Thoughts go out to the family.

 

[5030]

At 350 mph, survival is negligible. Bad accident. Feeling for the family. Young man too (40 years old).