Thursday, February 2, 2012

Jack Knifed Truck

On our drive home from Lusaka after Thanksgiving, we came upon this accident.  We drove right up to it, but on the other side was maybe 10 to 20 trucks lined up waiting to get through.  Our horn is very sensitive and Steve was reaching to do something and accidently gave a very little toot.  They stopped what they were doing and let us through. 

This section of the road is getting fixed.  They had been dumping dump truck loads of dirt on the side.  Here is was all rolled flat.  It also had been raining.  Not sure at all what this driver did, but he obviously went off the road into thick mud.

Jack-knife truck November 2011 Comp (3)

They were hooking a rope to the blue semi to pull it out.  The tractor actually cut open the trailer.  So I’m thinking they had a mess once they got him out of the mud.

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