Hey yall-

I just thought I'd share some video love. This happened about a month ago. An SO truck ran a red light and T-Boned one of our FD Trucks. No video of the actual crash...I am working on getting those since both dash cams captured it. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwJxhE4wU9I

 

nice

 

Looked like the Chevy won that battle.

 

Man, I thought watching paint dry was boring!

 

crazy hope everyone was ok

 

I want to know what high school dropout did the spell-check for that video!

:o

 

Welcum to my werld!

Nobody is owning up to filming it, so I can't tell you. Forsyth County is not known for it's education.

 

The music has got to go, what wuss picked that crap out.

 

our tax dollars at work!

 

I love how when there's police/fire/EMS/T involved in an accident the entire town is on the scene. A helicopter? Was that really neccessary?
It's the same here. There was a head on collision on one of our 4 lane bridges a while back, the accident was on the far lane and they had to close the two lanes next to it during rush hour traffic. Not because of broken glass, not beacuse of spilled fluids but because every cop car in town was parked on the bridge.

 

There's a reason why in the past 35 years, my department has had no deaths or serious injuries (ie: a guy twisted his ankle when he slipped outta the Engine a few years ago...no big deal). We can't run red lights. We all understand that lights/siren merely ask the traffic to move--not a right of way. If an intersection is clear, we can proceed. Though we don't have to come to a complete stop, we must verify that the intersection is clear BEFORE we nose into it. Our Sherriffs must also follow the same protocol. No driving incidents in approx. 35 years. Good record IMO.

BTW--the one back in the 70's: some idiot was atop the engine putting on his boots on the way to a fire. The driver decided to drive really fast around a turn, and the engine rolled. Driver: minor injuries. FF atop the engine: killed. Engine on top of him. Preventable death.

 

Not really. That was FOX5 News. They scan every department, and when they heard there was a wreck with entrapment involving SO and FD, they came running! They probably figured it was a fire truck vs cop car with blood and guts everywhere. It wasn't my shift, but I heard they weren't there but just a couple of minutes...it didn't even make the news

 

Morning TUFF.