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

White Comet

That’s very corny.

04/05/2018 - 16:48 |
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BoostAddict 1

You’d be surprised how often stuff like that happens in Canada.

04/05/2018 - 19:15 |
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Having lived there my whole life, I can confirm.

04/06/2018 - 21:00 |
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Black Phillip
04/06/2018 - 02:53 |
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Nomad

Shucks to be him

04/06/2018 - 08:10 |
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Anonymous

If you can’t notice something like this happening while driving, you shouldn’t be a truck driver.

04/06/2018 - 08:34 |
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Djivani

I guess you could say that the situation was out of….corntrol

04/07/2018 - 08:16 |
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jdm-supra-1600(md squad)(Supra squad leader)

Dang poor truck😭

04/09/2018 - 23:52 |
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