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Taprackpull t1_j1p12vw wrote

You don’t travel the Midwest much do you? They get blown over in wind gusts, flat tire and ditched, burned and my personal favorite the Henderson special. Pickup with a 5th wheel. Pulling a UTV trailer pulling a bass boat and UTV trailer lost a wheel several miles back.

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Goalie_deacon t1_j1ovv8u wrote

One would hope so. My FIL will prove you wrong. He lost everything as my in laws were living in a camping trailer, and he wrecked losing all of it. Thankfully MIL wasn’t with him when it happened. A few years later, he tore up another trailer. He just bought one. I’ll see how long that one last.

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89inerEcho t1_j1otfnl wrote

Maybe I’m the anomaly but I can remember three. First one was some hippies that installed a wood stove in their van and it (shockingly) burned down right in the middle of the intersection in Prescott. Second one was on fire when I got there. Not sure what happened, didn’t stick around. Last one I was behind a dodge Durango towing a double axel south out of Flagstaff. Not sure why they lost control but one swerve, then two, then the whole shebang went cruisn off the side of the interstate at about 80. Looked like some Michael Bay shit. The truck spun backwards, jackknifed, then the trailer caught rolled, and tore off the hitch. The whole thing ripped open and a billion little parts went everywhere. 4 people in the Durango were 100% unhurt. No clue how. I can still smell the propane. In retrospect, it was pretty cool.

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Czar_Cophagus t1_j1oodau wrote

Actually saw one in Virginia. Looked like a plane crashed.

Clothes, food, wood paneling, twisted aluminum sheets, pillows, toys, pots and pans all over the highway.

Thank god it was a 5th wheeler and no-one was in the trailer.

This was 10 years ago near a NASCAR event...so it kinda speaks for itself.

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