# TT goes over donners pass **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 30, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370 "2009-03-30T14:06:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370/1 "2009-03-30T14:06:43Z")
> **[Donner Pass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Pass)** > > Donner Pass (el. 7,056 ft (2,151 m)) is a mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada mountains themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west. The pass has been used by the California Trail, First Transcontinental Railroad, Overland Route, Lincoln Highway (later U.S. Route 40 and still later Donner Pass Road), as well as indirectly by Interstate 80. Today the... _[ame=“[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS00hb3zsVU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS00hb3zsVU)”]YouTube - Semi rolls over on Donner Pass[/ame]_ [http://www.auburnjournal.com/detail/92623.html](http://www.auburnjournal.com/detail/92623.html) The body of a second man was found underneath debris Tuesday morning at the accident site of a big rig rollover near Colfax Monday, officials reported. The man, whose name is not being released pending notification of his family, was reportedly a passenger in the big rig, which rolled into a guard rail spilling its load of recylced plastic down the embankment near the Magra Road exit on westbound Interstate 80, California Highway Patrol offi-cials reported. The driver, who was trapped inside of the truck’s cab and was also killed in the accident, was re-portedly going 70 mph and passing another truck in the fast lane when he lost control and slid down an embankment, said CHP Officer Rich Ruiz. “This morning, as the investigator was going over log books, (it was) determined there was possi-bly a co-driver involved,” Ruiz said. Ruiz said investigators also have video footage of the accident, recorded by a device on a Wal-Mart truck, which the driver of the big rig was passing at the time of the accident. “The driver of the WalMart truck was doing 55 mph, so we estimate the driver (of the big rig) was going 70 mph when he approached a curve and lost control. You see in the video the trailer starts to fishtail. When the driver tries to correct, he is sent over the guardrail.” Battalion Chief Jeff Brand of Cal Fire said crews located the co-driver under the debris and extri-cated him this morning. Brand said when the truck was overturned, the cab was torn off and wedged beneath the contents of the trailer and the trailer itself. All westbound lanes were closed as a result of the accident, which occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. All lanes were opened by approximately 7:45 p.m., California Highway Patrol officials said. Ruiz said the driver of big rig had only had his license for nine days. ---
**Author:** ![berad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/berad/32/5953_2.png) [@berad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/berad)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370/2 "2009-03-30T14:13:36Z")
That’s sad. Unfortunately, back in the day, I’ve paced TT’s going well over 100 mph on the PA turnpike coming home from car shows. ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370/3 "2009-03-30T14:21:26Z")
> [@FS: Drake matrix bindings, Ride jacket, blank deck](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-drake-matrix-bindings-ride-jacket-blank-deck/37814/24): > > That’s sad. Unfortunately, back in the day, I’ve paced TT’s going well over 100 mph on the PA turnpike coming home from car shows. Now, most trucks are governed under 70mph. pretty hard to do consistent 100 on the TP unless do some west virginia overdrive on the MT’s ---
**Author:** ![steelcitysix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/steelcitysix/32/5992_2.png) [@steelcitysix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/steelcitysix)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370/4 "2009-03-31T08:23:09Z")
I still se Supertruckers flying along over 80 every once in a while ---
**Author:** ![The1SloR\_T](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/the1slor_t/32/5984_2.png) [@The1SloR\_T](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The1SloR_T)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370/5 "2009-03-31T08:59:31Z")
[ame=“[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wifwg6xWVAU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wifwg6xWVAU)”]YouTube - Donner Pass Rollover: plus after the fact pictures.[/ame] vid with aftermath. I seen it at the bottom of the vid you posted ---
**Author:** ![pancho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@pancho](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pancho)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370/6 "2009-04-01T12:02:44Z")
I-80 on the way to school is like a racetrack for most truckers. ---
**Author:** ![dirty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dirty](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dirty)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370/7 "2009-04-01T17:20:59Z")
I lived near there for awhile and there were always a lot of bad wrecks. There were also a couple places with cars that had crashed and rolled down embankments that they couldn’t get out, just rusting away. ---
**Author:** ![SixSpeed454SS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@SixSpeed454SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SixSpeed454SS)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-goes-over-donners-pass/202370/8 "2009-04-01T18:25:16Z")
geez