(By Greg Rourke) – Ever have one of those days when you just should have stayed home? Here we have a Minnesota trucker who should’a called in sick and gone ice fishing.
We open with dash cam footage from a Minnesota police officer with excellent taste in music. He has just completed a roadside inspection of a tractor and tri axle dump trailer. He mustn’t have found any out-of-service violations, as our hapless semi driver pulls off the shoulder and out onto the road. There is a somewhat unusual intersection here, we have the road the trucker and cop are on, railroad tracks cross at an angle, and a side road off to the right. A local has made a comment that the stop sign is on the crossing lights, and is because the side street is before the tracks and it is legal to turn here even with the lights flashing after you stop.
We see a car turn down the street well before our hero approaches the intersection, the flashing lights, and the approaching train. If he stopped, we wouldn’t be watching this video. He drives in front of the train, which collects the truck and trailer and off they go until the train can stop.
The cop (who should be hired if they ever do a “Fargo” sequel) calls it in and races down the right of way. The trucker blames this on another car that distracted him. Based in what we see here, I’m not sure what car that would be. Luckily the driver and the train crew are all okay, and everyone goes home tonight. Although the driver may get to sleep in tomorrow, he may not have a job to show up for.
Lucky it’s winter not summer…” I was following that convertible eh…did you she her tits?” ” Wow…I don’t know what got into me..eh” 🙂
I feel bad for the truck driver, that had to be quite a ride.