Fatal FedEx Truck Crash I-35 in Cooke County, Texas in Construction Zone

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  1. Stringb8n

    Stringb8n Road Train Member

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  3. SmallPackage

    SmallPackage Road Train Member

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    Cabs just don’t stay on frames anymore.
     
  4. cuzzin it

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    Drivers can't drive anymore. In the good ole days, people didnt have phones to look at. We had Windshields and mirrors. Thats what ww did we looked at the road
     
  5. SmallPackage

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    I totally agree but not many cabs ever got knocked off frames even in the worst wrecks.
     
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    Truck were made stronger
     

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  7. OLDSKOOLERnWV

    OLDSKOOLERnWV Captain Redbeard

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    As I was told by a towing company owner I purchased a parts truck from, the trucks are designed now that the cab will break loose from the frame.

    He had multiple cabs setting in his back lot, when i commented about how hard of a wreck it must have been he mentioned that they are designed to separate….
     
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  8. Kenworth6969

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    Why still don't we have air bags like in cars?
     
  9. 062

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    Trucks do have airbags,just not as many as cars do.
     
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    The motor is designed to drop out of a Volvo in front end crashes.
     
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  11. Stringb8n

    Stringb8n Road Train Member

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    The only thing that was left when I passed by was the FedEx truck and trailer. I think but am not sure, that the trailer caught something the FedEx driver was trying to avoid, swung the truck to the left against whatever that object was, and maybe bounced back and forth and then came to rest with the cab off the frame in the right median. Watching the news videos, the truck frame was still under the trailer and was pulled away from the trailer with a wrecker. I could not nor do I want to imagine what went through either of the drivers minds who were involved. I feel for anybody that's ever been in a crash like this.
     
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