Rig takes out car/house - pics

[HoleshotHolset]

TDR member 'jtisdale' asked me to post these pics for him. He can provide the relevant details. All I know is that the rig hit a car and pushed it into the house and neither the driver nor the occupent of the house was seriously injured...



Thanks,



Matt

 

[TORQUE THIS]

Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[benhall]

I guess that is one way to get your house remodeled.



Ben

 

[biggieou]

That's like that song by Garth Brooks, "Papa Loved Mama"!

 

[IC Smoke]

Extreme Home Makeover gone wrong..... !



Ian

 

[jtisdale]

This happened last week in Cobb, WI. Driver "blacked out". It is said he suffered some bumps and bruises, but is otherwise OK. The occupant in the house was taking a nap when it happened and was just a little shaken but also unharmed. Conflicting reports claim a small car was pushed from the curb into the house (and would be placed on the passenger side of the tractor) but these photos cant confirm that.

I dont know what would be worse waking up with your tractor in a house or waking up with a tractor in your house.

Jim

 

[bmoeller]

My grandpa had his bed slid over to a different wall in the house when an idiot jumped the curb and plowed into his house with a SUV, while he was on the bed taking a nap. He wasn't hurt at all.

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Wow that could have been a lot worse.



A couple news clips on it http://nbc15.madison.com/news/headlines/4438221.html

http://www.channel3000.com/news/10116789/detail.html



Seeing those pics reminds me of the time an Amtrak train blasted through a house that was being moved and got stuck on the tracks. Happened near Auburn, WA in December 2000. Sorry, couldn't find any pictures, but the news story is pretty good:



Amtrak Train Hits a House



An Amtrak Special train carrying Seattle Seahawk fans home from the football game collided with a house in Sumner, WA (South of Seattle). Amtrak regularly runs football specials for the Hawks home games.



The train was on it's trip back to Portland at about 11 PM when it collided with the house in the town of Sumner, WA. The house was being moved, and was crossing the tracks on a public grade crossing at the time of the collision.



The crossing has lights and gates, and they were working. The house movers saw them come on, but could not get the house off of the tracks in time to avoid a collision.



It appears the engineer saw the obstacle, as the train stopped not long after the collision. The house was demolished, and what was left of it was moved off the tracks with a trackhoe so that the mainline could be re-opened.



Men moving house had seconds to react to oncoming train December 25, 2000, 12:00 pm.



TACOMA — Anthony Payne says he had about 10 seconds to react to the oncoming train.



It was closing in on midnight Saturday and he and a friend were on the roof of a house being pulled by a semi-tractor-trailer rig, lifting low-hanging wires out of the way.



The house was on the tracks.



And there was no time to get out of the way of the Portland-bound special Amtrak train carrying 90 Seahawks fans.



"I just screamed `TRAIN!' and he " - driver Jeffrey Douglas Pounder, 45, of Auburn - "started to try to pull out of there," he said.



When the train hit, Payne, 25, of Auburn, was thrown into the air. He slid into a gully, landed in a grassy field and walked away with only a scratch and bruise near his right eye.



"If he hadn't moved it forward, I know that I'd be dead," Payne said.



The other man on the roof, David Higman of Seattle, slid through the debris to the ground, unhurt.



No serious injuries were reported, though Payne and several people from the train were treated and released by area hospitals.



The house was demolished. The train engine was taken out of service. Most of the 90 Seahawks fans on board were bused to Portland.



Pounder - cited for driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license - returned to the site after talking with authorities to help with cleanup.



Pounder, who has an unpublished telephone number, could not be reached for comment Monday.



Debris - 2 x 4s, rugs, sheetrock, insulation and more - littered a 300-yard stretch of track on Sunday. Folks came from miles around to see the aftermath and take pictures.



"There was no reason for that thing to be on the tracks," said Amtrak spokesman Kevin Johnson.



"It as an unscheduled train," noted spokesman Ed Troyer with the Pierce County Sheriff's Department. A deputy in a car was escorting the rig, but was at the next intersection and did not see the collision, he said.



Pounder had the permits required for moving the house, Washington State Patrol Lt. Dan Eikum said.



The house had been owned by Auburn residents Larry and Mickey Fassbind, who gave it to Pounder in exchange for his removing it from their property.



"Kinda makes you feel kinda sick. It's my house, my kids were born in that house," said Mickey Fassbind.



Pounder. who operated Emerald City Moving and Restoration, had spent months preparing the 35-year-old, 2,200-square-foot house for the move, they said.



"He (Pounder) had all his permits. This train wasn't supposed to be here," Mickey Fassbind said.



The Fassbinds donated the house several months ago to an Alaska Airlines fund-raising auction to benefit a child whose mother died last January in the crash of Flight 261 off the California coast.



A couple bought the house for $580 but didn't claim it after learning it would cost $20,000 to move, the Fassbinds said.

 

[SHobbs]

Found out last night that Monday this week my uncle a 40 year veteran of truck driving was in a wreck, the first major one of his career. He was headed S. out of Jacksboro TX at 65 mph when a man on a farm tractor pulled out infront of him from the right shoulder. The truck fully loaded with cattle hit the tractor then rolled onto the driver side, uncle crawled out of the front windshield which was blown out on impact. My cousin told me that the rear diffs. were ripped out from under the truck and tossed aside.



He had a co worker behind him in another truck that wound up stopping in the center median. They discovered that the man on the tractor wound up under the second trucks wheels. Total of 5 cows died in the carnage. Uncle is ok he had a seatbelt on and just has bruises and bumps. Physically he's ok but the psycholgical damage is done.

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

Yeah... I remember that Amtrak vs. house thing... and I know I have pictures of it somewhere. (cab interior shots).



As for the truck, tractor, cows incident... . yeah the psychological part sucks. its no different than being on a train and going through an incident there too.

 

[DieselTweaker]

that's an odd roof line on that house... ...



Atleast everyone was ok.



Zach

 

[csevers]

My aunt sent me these pics as well and says that, that house is my aunt and uncle's old house. I have never been there.



Craig

 

[CSnyder]

This was quite a site to see. The guy who lives there drives a white S-10 and ALWAYS has it parked on the street and it has nearly caused me several accidents when I pull wide farm equipment through there. Guess I wont have to worry about it anymore... :-laf :-laf :-laf For reference this little town is one hour west of Madison and Dodgeville on highway 18.

 

[Bling-N-Smoke]

Wow. What a mess there. One positive thing that can come out of this though...



Whoever installed that antannae ought to be proud. It's still standing there tall and proud! :-laf



Cory