Horrible accident w/ 2 cycles in Leonardtown

[Rt235]

I did not see this noted here. Sounds like a real horrible accident!

Serious Personal Injury in Leonardtown – Two Flyouts, Two Other Victims

At approximately 1:13 p.m. on Saturday, August 4, emergency units were dispatched to the area near 24881 Pt. Lookout Rd. in Leonardtown for a reported serious personal injury accident involving two motorcycles and a truck and trailer. According to dispatch the operator of the truck reported that the trailer broke loose from the truck and struck two motorcycles.

Trooper 2 was called to the scene for evacuation of one victim with a possible amputation at knee and for a second seriously injured patient. Two other crash victims were transported by ambulance to Medstar St. Mary’s Hospital.

Please be safe out there and allow a lot of room between you and the other guy!

Baynet has story with photos.

[my-thyme]

Prayers to all involved

[bcp (Premo)]

thats horrible.
prayers to all involved, including the guy that lost the trailer. How do you live with knowing that you had something to do with that type of accident.

[Rt235]

Originally Posted by bcp

thats horrible.
prayers to all involved, including the guy that lost the trailer. How do you live with knowing that you had something to do with that type of accident.

Yup, main reason to use a good fitting hitch and good chains!!!

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Rt235

Yup, main reason to use a good fitting hitch and good chains!!!

I lost a boat once years ago, welds broke on the trailer part of the hitch, but the chains did hold and allow me to stop it with a bit of damage to the tailgate.

[frequentflier (Premo)]

Back when towtrucks had a hook, (as opposed to trucks that now have a flatbed)I saw one that had dropped a car in the middle of the road. To this day, I am cautious about being behind anyone towing anything!

[Wenchy (Premo)]

Prayers and hopefully lessons learned.

[vraiblonde]

the trailer broke loose from the truck and struck two motorcycles.

How awful for everyone involved.

I, like FF, don't travel behind anyone who's pulling something. And I also don't travel behind anyone who is carrying loose stuff or drywall in the back of a truck. A friend of mine was in a serious accident because the guy in front of him had sheetrock strapped to the top of his vehicle and it came loose, busted through my friend's windshield and almost killed him.


Edited - FF, not Belvak.

[Bay_Kat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

How awful for everyone involved.

I, like Belvak, don't travel behind anyone who's pulling something. And I also don't travel behind anyone who is carrying loose stuff or drywall in the back of a truck. A friend of mine was in a serious accident because the guy in front of him had sheetrock strapped to the top of his vehicle and it came loose, busted through my friend's windshield and almost killed him.

So sad, my prayers to all those involved.

I'm like you. I don't like to follow anyone carrying/pulling anything now and that's because I was headed north on Rt. 4 one day a guy in front of me had thick pipe on his truck, all of a sudden they are coming toward me, they went up over my car, but scared the daylights out of me and I was thinking "Final Destination". Freak accidents and the wrong place at the wrong time. Just a sad, sad situation.

[Rt235]

Some years ago, I was behind a truck w/ a home made camper shell (plywood). We were going up the 2/4 bridge (Solomon's TO St. Mary's.) It was very windy. I slowed down and back way off as soon as I saw the camper shell begin to wobble. Sure enough, it came off and most of it flew over the concrete wall into the river below. Some of the pieces ended up on the roadway. By this time I was at a complete stop! Scared the crap outta me!

So I too leave a good distance between a potential hazard and me!