# pa turnpike crash Friday night **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 29, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298 "2005-03-29T06:31:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/1 "2005-03-29T06:31:52Z")
thought i’d fill you guys in on what we saw on the TP Friday night. it was about 6:30 or so…& we (wife & I) were headed to NJ for the weekend. we were at mile marker 100.7 i think…so thats a few miles west of somerset. we come around a right bend…and it was one of those bends where you can see about 1/4-1/2 mile of the straigtaway ahead. my wife is driving and all of a sudden my wife is like what the hell is that?? & I’m like holy shit…that truck is coming through the barrier!!! about 1/4 mile in front of us…a tractor trailor going west…broke through the barrier & came into the east bound lane. concrete was flying everywhere, flames, carnage , etc… other trucks in the west bound lane stopped to come put the fire out. & check on the guy…I was on the phone with 911 luckily the traffic wasn’t heavy going east cause it could have been really bad… there was only one car but it swerved to miss the truck. we had to sit there for almost 2hrs. where were about 4-5 cars back from the wreckage. i’m glad no one was hurt but it was a once in a lifetime experience see that. the drive just seemed shaken up…he was helped out of the truck & was walking but they still sent in in an ambulance. ![http://www.pitt.edu/~jssst37/html/trucktpcrash.jpg](http://www.pitt.edu/~jssst37/html/trucktpcrash.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![smokeyburnouts](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smokeyburnouts/32/5987_2.png) [@smokeyburnouts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/smokeyburnouts)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/2 "2005-03-29T06:35:31Z")
damn. crazy. glad u guys werent close enough to get hurt ---
**Author:** ![DTMVENG24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@DTMVENG24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DTMVENG24)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/3 "2005-03-29T06:36:46Z")
Wow that guy is lucky. ---
**Author:** ![whitey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/whitey/32/5911_2.png) [@whitey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/whitey)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/4 "2005-03-29T06:41:17Z")
wow… thats crazy ---
**Author:** ![bobby311](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bobby311/32/5971_2.png) [@bobby311](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bobby311)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/5 "2005-03-29T06:46:39Z")
damn ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/6 "2005-03-29T06:49:17Z")
I saw that on the news, that’s crazy good work on the pics :bigthumb: ---
**Author:** ![brokeasskorean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@brokeasskorean](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brokeasskorean)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/7 "2005-03-29T07:00:27Z")
holy cow, i bet that was interesting to see ---
**Author:** ![T70\_Tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/8 "2005-03-29T07:07:21Z")
what was the reason he crossed through? ---
**Author:** ![BlkP42E](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blkp42e/32/5938_2.png) [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/9 "2005-03-29T07:10:38Z")
Thats the 2nd one in a few weeks… there was one 2 weeks ago when i was on my way to 7 Springs… right after Irwin. a few people died in that one though ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/10 "2005-03-29T07:12:56Z")
> [@BlueMeanieTSi](#): > > what was the reason he crossed through? not sure…i didn’t hear his story, but i’m guessing he blew a tire & lost contol or fell asleep. when were were driving back yesterday i check the westbound lane & its not a curvy downhill stretch were he could have gotten out fo control…its straight with slight left curve where he when into the wall…and its flat if not slightly uphill. ---
**Author:** ![bgblockelcamino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bgblockelcamino/32/5997_2.png) [@bgblockelcamino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bgblockelcamino)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/11 "2005-03-29T07:14:42Z")
> [@BlkP42E](#): > > Thats the 2nd one in a few weeks… there was one 2 weeks ago when i was on my way to 7 Springs… right after Irwin. > > a few people died in that one though That one a few weeks ago was my nieghbor growing up. My question now is why are there trucks going through the barriers now? ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/12 "2005-03-29T07:16:25Z")
> [@BlkP42E](#): > > Thats the 2nd one in a few weeks… there was one 2 weeks ago when i was on my way to 7 Springs… right after Irwin. > > a few people died in that one though i heard about that…dirty georg told me… i remember one years back…probably in the summer of 99 or 2000 we sat in the backup for that for 1-2hrs…it was near donagal in that curvy downhill section…i think a few people died in that, but i never saw the wreckage cause we were a mile or so back from the wreck. i just can’t believe i witnessed this one :eek3: ---
**Author:** ![danteisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@danteisme](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/danteisme)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/13 "2005-03-29T08:22:02Z")
is that an ECM truck? ---
**Author:** ![T70\_Tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/14 "2005-03-29T08:24:51Z")
yeah looks like it, wonder if daves dad knows what happened dante ---
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/15 "2005-03-29T09:10:32Z")
Time to start legislation for mandatory improved barriers. ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/16 "2005-03-29T09:16:05Z")
> [@Jeff95TA](#): > > Time to start legislation for mandatory improved barriers. and in 35 years we will start the actual building of the new and improved design. ---
**Author:** ![danteisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@danteisme](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/danteisme)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/17 "2005-03-29T09:36:41Z")
> [@BlueMeanieTSi](#): > > yeah looks like it, wonder if daves dad knows what happened dante yeah thats what i was thinking ---
**Author:** ![Bravada\_442](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bravada_442/32/5982_2.png) [@Bravada\_442](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bravada_442)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/18 "2005-03-29T09:37:45Z")
I wonder what happened to the guy, did he fall asleep or something? ---
**Author:** ![Pewter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pewter/32/5936_2.png) [@Pewter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pewter)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/19 "2005-03-29T09:48:48Z")
dam.i only live 20 miles away,should of called,could of brought u a pizza! ---
**Author:** ![peterock17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@peterock17](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/peterock17)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298/20 "2005-03-29T12:26:04Z")
dang! good thing yinz are ok. i love the new jersey barriers in the newer portions of the TP. theyre much taller so you don’t get blinded by oncoming traffic. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pa-turnpike-crash-friday-night/173298.md?page=2)