Bulldozer comes off of trailer, kills 2

[grsthegreat]

Two people dead, 3 injured after bulldozer falls off tow truck flatbed, hits SUV in Ogden Canyon | Gephardt Daily

Two people are dead after an eastbound tow truck in Ogden lost the bulldozer it was hauling on its flatbed platform, and the bulldozer crashed into a westbound SUV.

gephardtdaily.com

Does not say if it was even secured to trailer

 

[Richard001]

OMG what a horrible thing. Not much info on the website shown. It's not even clear if the bulldozer was on a trailer or on a truck.

 

[tacticalturnip]

A little more info.

Utah CEO and Daughter Killed After Bulldozer Falls onto Their Vehicle: 'We Are Heartbroken,' Says Governor

Richard David Hendrickson and his daughter Sally, 16, were killed in a car crash at Ogden Canyon in Utah on Saturday, July 6, Utah Highway Patrol announced

people.com

 

[newbury]

That's terrible. The CEO was of Lifetime Products. They make plastic sheds and outdoor furniture. I bought one of their 8x16 sheds about 12 years ago and it's still in excellent shape.

 

[Thomas]

Sad...very sad.

 

[stucknutz]

wow

 

[Paystar]

As a now retired trucker, I can say one of the main reasons I called it quits is because of the absolutely disgraceful quality of drivers that are now on the roads and highways.
I work in a mine now and I unload transports that deliver stuff and I have taken pictures of transport coming in with their loads not even secured, transports with pieces falling off on the road while driving, etc. I've sent the pics to our MTO heads, the police, my MP's and they all go ignored. The highways up here are closed at least once a week with wrecks. Unreal.

 

[Paystar]

And the saddest part is it's always the innocent persons that perish in these incidents, never the ones that cause it.

 

[masseyrider]

I have a friend who used to have a dump truck business.
He kept his trucks in excellent shape. His drivers were all qualified and experienced.
He had to quit the business.
The competition to cut costs doesn't maintain their trucks and the drivers are a joke.
Some can't even back their units up.
I won't say where they are from but many have no training but work cheap under the table.
If something happens they just disappear.

 

[Engineer42]

OMG what a horrible thing. Not much info on the website shown. It's not even clear if the bulldozer was on a trailer or on a truck.

After reading the article if appears to have been on a rollback. They say "tow truck", so that's an assumption on my part.