Overturned truck
Friday, 11th January 2008 by Rob
In the town of Århus, Denmark, an articulated lorry seems to have taken the crossroads a little too fast, and has ended up on its side. The lane positioning suggests that it has just taken a left turn. Thankfully, the recovery services have arrived and a lorry transporter is ready to pick it up.
From the looks of it, there may be a pipe going from the recovery truck to the lorry, so maybe they are going to attempt an air cushion lift?
Check out previous lorry accidents here, here and here.
Thanks to Raskii at the Google Earth community.
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Judging by it`s position, I belive it was making a left turn, not a right turn.
I reckon that darker line is not a pipe, just the liquid from the drivers Red Bull can running down the gutter.
Hi Gimenez,
Once again physics has beaten me with its giant stick of logic. By discussing the issue with a physics friend of mine, he explained that “the weight of the truck has been thrown outwards…so it took a wide fast arc and was on one side’s wheels before it totally toppled.” My original conclusion was drawn by using a coin to see which way it fell, but sadly the same weight distribution cannot be applied to an articulated lorry. 😀
I’ve edited the post to correct it!
Cheers!
Wow! that is a good capture!
It looks as if the load is a ship container, no doubt picked up at the nearby seaport.
@Peter – Good point, and something that should have made me realise which way the lorry had come from! 🙂 Århus is actually Denmark’s main port (according to wikipedia).
PS: Maybe its my pre-Macworld excitement, but does anyone think the lorry behind the overturned one looks like a Mac Pro?! 😀
Sorry to be a Peter Pedant but isnt this town spelt Aarhus? I know its spelt with one ‘a’ on the map but i believe the correct Danish spelling is with two ‘a’s. Carry on.
I dunno if that’s a ship container or not; it looks like one solid trailer to me. In the US, anyway, ship containers are placed on flatbed trailers, usually several to a trailer, and this looks like only one trailer.
@Cookie monster – As written in the post, “Århus” is actually written with an Å, a special danish letter. However, long time ago two a’s were used and is still common when no å is available. Some towns is still written with the old spelling like Aalborg
By weird coinsidence the exact same thing happend today in Århus! http://jp.dk/indland/aar/article1230067.ece Not in the same place though, but the accident seems similar.