Watch This Semi Trailer Full Of Corn Slam Into A Highway Overpass

Incredibly, no one was injured in this spectacular collision between a tractor-trailer full of corn and a pedestrian overpass
Video accident repentigny 04-04-2018

Voici un vidéo de l'accident de ce matin à Repentigny.#truckstopquebec #accident #repentigny

Posted by Truck Stop Quebec on Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Having a tipper trailer on a semi truck makes the process of unloading cargo a lot easier. But you’d better make sure it’s lowered before you hit the road, especially when there’s a low bridge along your route of travel.

Yesterday, a Canadian truck driver learned that lesson the hard way. While travelling down a busy motorway at full speed, the truck’s trailer full of corn was somehow left in the elevated position. Sure enough, it got into a fight with a pedestrian overpass on Autoroute 40 in Repentigny, Quebec… and lost.

Luckily, nobody was injured in the spectacular collision. But the crash spilled the trailer’s full load all over the road, forcing the partial closure of Autoroute 40’s eastbound lane for several hours as crews cleaned up the corny mess.

At this point, it’s not clear if the crash was caused by driver error or a possible electrical/mechanical failure. But incidents like these have sparked debate about equipping transport trucks with a mandatory warning system to alert the driver if the dump trailer is raised while driving.

Sources: Truck Stop Quebec, CBC

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Comments

TurboToddler (Straight-five)

Imagine if something exploded and the motorway ended up covered in popcorn

04/05/2018 - 09:09 |
190 | 0

I’m dying. Lmao

04/05/2018 - 09:24 |
14 | 0

Would’ve been an a-MAIZE-ing sight . . . I’ll see myself out

04/05/2018 - 09:40 |
60 | 4

Can somebody pay for all the bowls i’ll have to get if that happened?

04/05/2018 - 12:37 |
4 | 0

That would be a time I could get my T-Shirt “GET YOUR POPCORN READY!”

04/06/2018 - 20:09 |
2 | 0
Deoxide

This is when a slammed truck is superior to a normal truck.

04/05/2018 - 09:15 |
30 | 0
Lucas Tekkan

Well he didnt CORNered well

04/05/2018 - 09:28 |
10 | 6
Nerdy moustache

what if the truck had car parts instead.

04/05/2018 - 10:05 |
0 | 0
Amar C.

Drive through the corn, suck some in, viola, popcorn rev limitter

04/05/2018 - 10:34 |
4 | 4
Anonymous

And this why you should know exactly how high your vehicle is

04/05/2018 - 10:44 |
6 | 0
ModernChaos

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Even if it’s not a semi truck. I know what parking garages/drive thrus I can’t fit in in my barely-lifted pickup truck lol

04/05/2018 - 11:32 |
2 | 0
Jeremy S.

that was CORNy

04/05/2018 - 11:02 |
6 | 6
Joyal

This ain’t corn, it’s just regular road sand

04/05/2018 - 12:09 |
2 | 12
Joyal

In reply to by Joyal

I don’t get why people downvoted this. we just got like 20cm of snow, -10°C outside, this isn’t corn, it definitely is road sand

04/05/2018 - 13:52 |
4 | 4
Anonymous

Well….this news is corny.

04/05/2018 - 15:47 |
0 | 0
dmackster1124

Of all the dumb things that somebody who drives a dump truck can do, this is the dumbest

04/05/2018 - 15:51 |
2 | 0