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RV Accident
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Amazing photos. Glad he survived and he was alone. Intersting picture of the tow vehicle as well.
I hope his insurnace company helps put it back together.
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We are all in the unfavorable position of having to accept whatever happens when someone hits us head on, or we hit something such as another vehicle, a bridge abutment or large trees.
What we do not have to accept is the items in our interior becoming flying objects and injuring us from the rear. The photo of the interior shows that almost everything literally exploded from its stored position. We cannot prevent the cabinetry from coming apart or the items in the cabinets from flying out, but we can certainly secure items that are just sitting in place such as “Mr. Coffee” on the countertop or other loose objects that are going flying after an impact.
Put down those cell phones and slow down a little folks. Those photos show what can happen to any one of us.
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This accident happened sometime ago,my friend spent several weeks in hospital but is ok now. Accident happened on
I 85 in VA. He had broken ribs and almost lost a leg. I posted this to show what can happen even in a big rig.
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Gary,
Like Karl asked, how did your friend make out from an insurance standpoint?
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Thanks Gary for posting the pics, very informative.
I can’t help but think about your friend sitting in that front seat. There is nothing to hold onto. The steering wheel is 5 or 6 ft. away. And, all of that stuff crashing down. I’m still trying to visualize how he got out, there are no steps and all those wires, etc. And, I don’t see the generator, I guess it got ripped out.
I’m wondering if your friend will even ‘RV’ again.
Seeing the front end of a Prevost bus that was wrecked, there are steel beams going across the front below the windshield and they have real bumper supports. The bus that I saw did not hit trees so the upper structure was no compromised. But, seeing how the front a Prevost is built gives me a little peace of mind.
Safe travels,
Mark
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I am on your guys side in this. I would rather be in a bus than a regular RV but these pictures prove that nothing holds together if you hit something hard enough. This accident happend in 2010. The entertainer coach with an experienced driver rounded a curve to find a line of trucks in the right lane waiting to get in a weigh station. The bus hit the back of a semi trailer.
No one was killed but they were all broken up pretty badly. The weigh station was such a known problem the bus driver was not cited at all.
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We started our search looking for a truck conversion to pull the race trailer and use as an RV. Was looking for a 379 Peterbilt 40′ to 45′ long. Then I read about this accident:
http://www.startribune.com/no-7-five-from-jordan-minn-killed-in-kansas-motor-home-crash/145595155/
If you look closely at the pictures/video, you’ll notice that it appears the MH had a deck built on the truck frame and everything above that deck is gone … torn off in the accident. The cab remains largely intact.
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Fatal_RV_Crash_In_Osage_County_Shuts_Down_I-35_145487855.html
The article references a “semi-trailer” when in fact the vehicle was a Freightliner chasis truck conversion pulling an enclosed trailer.
After seeing these pictures and reading about the crash on the truck conversion forum, I started looking for a Prevost instead of a truck conversion. Not to say that some of the truck conversions aren’t well built and would not have come apart like the this rig came apart. But I think a Prevost is markedly safer.
The Prevost has so many advantages over a truck conversion of the same length. After looking at four or five Peterbilts, I concluded the truck conversion has only a few advantages over the Prevost and those didn’t tip our scale towards the truck conversion.
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WOW! Hate to be in that one especially in the passenger seat.
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A few weeks back we happened to catch a TV show about expensive RVs. It happened that one of them was a Newmar Kingaire. That is a large coach, and appears to be equipped very similar to our coaches.
What really grabbed my attention was that is was built on a truck type two channel frame structure. The chassis is essentially a flat bed truck 45 feet long. The deck appeared to be one or two 3/4″ plywood sheets. After showing the chassis the show jumped to the installation of the side walls, which are aluminum frames and they are SCREWED to the plywood floor.
I can envision any impact forces causing the portion of the coach screwed to the deck or floor separating easily. It looks great as a finished coach, but knowing the sides and rear walls are just screwed into playwood was all it took for me to realize our welded chassis “cage” is not going to separate in a rollover or be torn apart due to a sudden impact.
If you are a member and do not yet have a Prevost, but drive a conventional RV give serious consideration about how your coach is constructed and drive accordingly.
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Notice on the Prevo the rest incl the interior was intact. Geo.
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Jon wrote: “If you are a member and do not yet have a Prevost, but drive a conventional RV give serious consideration about how your coach is constructed and drive accordingly.”
Excellent advice. If you can figure out how your conventional RV was constructed. Don’t make any assumptions.
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The truck conversion RV driven by a 17 year old male with a Minnesota Provisonal drivers license was hammered by the press here in KC.
That word Provisonal in Minnesota is a valid drivers license but has a catch. When this 17 year old passed a written test he agreed to have a valid licensed parent in the co-pilot seat and all persons wear seat belts.
It is beyond me how a mother could put this young man behind the wheel of a truck conversion RV pulling a trailer with no, zero, none, experience at highway speeds with 18 persons onboard.
After the press ripped the mother wanting a interview but she issued a statement of how proud she was of her son and refused any interviews.
Five killed and only 2 wearing seat belts.
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One can never be too careful even if just stopping for some cheap fuel.
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This is are business since 1956 it does not matter what you have if you have a frontal impact you will get hurt , big truck , RV , or a Prevost , you are all over the trail hand over the reins to people who know what they are talking about, we see this every week , you will get hurt period!!!!!! We just did a mid air roll over last week with a Prevost , for those that don’t know what that is , it’s a bus that crashed and was upside down in the river with the driver still in it , the cops wanted it out of river rolled over in mid air and put back on road on its feet so they could do the investigation , with the driver still in seat , but had passed away in crash!!!
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That Prevost photo that Alvie posted is going to end up with a great potential for damage. I hope that tow truck driver or the owner called and spoke to Prevost for advice first, because lifting the back end may do some serious damage to the engine cradle or rear structure.
BTW, that looks like an entertainer coach on a motor home shell.
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