Rescue 911 - Episode 117 - "Runaway Garbage Truck"

[roosevelthighschool]

Great show.

[roosevelthighschool]

This show was released in 1989.

[jaffacake1578]

may a roll cage have helped? i am not saying "THEY SHOULD HAVE GOT ONE!!!" but i am just asking if it would help in this situation?

[motown505]

the 8 yr old boy should have been taken to the hospital immediately since he was in a serious car wreck not put in a patrol car since he did have a serious internal injury

[ThatHaloNerd117]

thats a merical they all survived

[Halation2]

"miracle"

[anholt1]

i don't get it... there are several episodes about trucks loseing the brakes, i'm a truck-mecanic in denmark, europe and i don't understand how this can happen? european trucks are build in a way that los of brakes can't happen. there are 2 options either the brakes wrok or rearwheels locks(even when driving) this is dangerous, but it will stop the truck... i guess there is a reason why europeans think that american cars (and trucks) are badly build

[MilwaukeeSDman]

This was made in 1990

[tbirdpimp07]

american trucks all have spring loaded brakes now if they have air brakes

[racedemon89]

this is america, they have NEVER made a good car let alone something called a truck which can have 2 turns of free play in the steering

[instagasm]

yeah unfortunatly there are no real american made cars or trucks any more,they all come from china or some where else.

[bartkurtsteck1953]

What happened to the tow truck driver? Was he charged for negligence????

[1f5sda]

I would be scared if something like that happened. Anyway, I'm glad that nobody died.

[Amandakate67]

this video makes me sad. The last firefighter seen in this video...is my deceased stepdad. :(

[summerlandmisfit]

aww, im sorry to hear that.

[SoundwaveX7]

I'm so sorry. :(

[MilwaukeeSDman]

Im Sorry for your loss

[schindlerman96]

i live in berea,ky

[rahad1997]

it's good police save tosh people

[zzzzdreamzzz]

we had this happen in a town very close to mine only people got hit walking along the sidewalk, a mom and son i think, neither survived.

[zzzzdreamzzz]

I'm pretty sure the driver was charged heavily because he took a road that was clearly marked on how many tons could be handled and the sign was ignored. was very sad and pointless.

[mustang356]

Was The Tow Truck Driver Charged

[xxxViiKatexxx]

And people wonder why I hate trucks...

[Nicole4ever74]

i know when im going to town wit my mom im scared to by or go behind or in front of a tow truck or any truck x]

[KittyKarryAll]

LOL! I thought I was the only one! Hhahah! And I hate when a truck is on both sides of me in like a 3 or more lane road, I get paranoid! I have to get away from them. It's just something about how they are so huge it feels like they are going to just crush u. LOL!

[Nicole4ever74]

I know right lol

[baystategirl]

Once I was boxed in by 4 18 wheelers on a highway...and when I say boxed in I mean, one in front, one in back, and one to the left and right...nade ne so nervous I almost peed my pants...I was like "Oh for the love of God would one of you just MOVE!!!" lol.

[Nicole4ever74]

lolz ^_^

[thiefrules]

its lolz unless this happens to YOU

[zzzzdreamzzz]

I know what you mean I would cross the deleware bridge going into de from jersey, 6 lanes at least, and the trucks dont even check their blind spots half the time, im in a little hatchback, one time they almost sandwiched me i SLAMMED on the gas and said god help them if the cops try to pull me over for speeding i will flip sh*t!

[deputywright]

don't blame all tow truck drivers

[Nicole4ever74]

?>????

[Tm30w06]

I think that Kentucky State Trooper had rocks of steel ! To be in that kind of situation and still remian emotionally stable....is just amazing !!! Alot of us wish we could remain calm like that..

[firemanupton]

that kind of truck has air breaks it dont have an emergency break

[island007]

Yes it does- the spring breaks. When the PSI goes below acceptable limits, the spring breaks autmatically deploy bringing the vehical to a grinding hault.

The vehical had defective breaks which could have been prevented by doing routine maintenance and daily circle checks by the driver which is required by law.

The driver should have been charged.

[xhandbasketx]

Also when air brakes fail they close and lock. IT would of stopped the truck.

[aurora990]

a truck going downhill has to shift to low gear before going downhill, apply the brakes until the engine braking can be felt, keep the speed 5 MPH below the posted speed limit for trucks and keep applying the brakes. the emergency brakes stop the truck if there is a loss of air pressure. brake fading is what can cause the truck to lose braking power going downhill.

[osanama11]

wo0ow funny drama by 911...suks hehe

[meggiemeg86]

It broke my heart to see that precious little baby. I'm so glad everyone survived.

[funnyent]

Stop Being so Rude people! People died here!!!

[allgood2000]

No one died in this accident. Everyone survived.

[justinshell01]

it said everone was alive you dont pay attention to well

[kakkorot13]

notice how the media are being vultures at this accident, course they did get good footage, but still how can you make a living filming people who may be dying?

[existentializer]

Lady in video: Thank you lord for only breaking my neck and for my husband only losing one eye--really appreciate that. Would have preferred You hadn't caused the accident in the first place, but hey--You are the Lord. What do we know?"

[Superapplefrog]

Why would you write such a negative comment on a video like this? No God or Goddess caused that ACCIDENT, and one of them got there in time (and got the emergency sevrices there in time) to prevent even a single one of those people dying.

[mattharden1982]

was that really you in the video?

[meggiemeg86]

What?? Are you crazy? How could God have "caused" the accident. If anything, a higher power saved these people.

[hundanth]

owch Why didn't the rig jockey sound his horn?

[baybiiemma]

Yikes.

[1f5sda]

OUCH! THAT'S GOTTA HURT!

[coxcm2003]

oh, just an eye, you know...lol that sucks!

[SquishDoll]

The cars are now garbage and the people are pretty trashed too...

[bsd083]

this was such i good show, i remember watching it every week growing up.

[wooswooswoos1]

if u tune to zone reality u can see it monday to friday at 10:00 am

[akinggeovanis]

natural selection

[avenger007007]

LOL

[longlivethewtc]

wow you two are unbelievable uncaring jerks!

[avenger007007]

I just thought what he said was funny, that dont mean I agree with what he said.

[WasteCnxsideloader]

Thats not natural selection,idiot.

[williamschad9]

I remember this episode,that was horrifying

[lillianelliott]

i know so where did they think the 8 yr old came from?

[musicalcaptain]

why is the video labeled "runaway garbage truck"? it was a tow truck

[allgood2000]

That's just the title of the segment, I didn't pick it. I guess they chose that because the tow truck was towing a garbage truck, and the garbage truck was what crushed the cars.

[musicalcaptain]

oops

[avenger007007]

there was a garbage truck on the back of the tow.

[lirr56890]

why did he not pull the emergency brakes.

[jeepman65]

There are none. Just parking brakes.

[s172mch]

wow this was scary

thats why you want a jake brake or transmission retarder or manual trans

[WhyChrisCrocker]

i miss this show

[Unslovedaudio]

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[chrisz71]

I'm impressed that they got everyone to a hospital in an hour!! That's incredible!

[chrisz71]

HOLY CRAP- at 1:58- THAT'S A CAR?! OH MY GOD!! At 2:37, I guess it was right that he should have stopped the camera, but then again, we wouldn't have this.

[allgood2000]

I think this is probably news footage, there's not much else a cameraman with the local news team could have done but filmed it.

[gregorkrause]

is there a segment where a woman was afraid of drowning untill she actually crashes her car in the river causing her to drown somewhere in the 6th season?

[allgood2000]

Yes, that was on Episode 611, the same episode where a little girl named Jeanie got shot by a man trying to scare away a dog. Karen (the woman who crashed) didn't drown though, a jogger who saw her crash reached through the broken window and lifted her head above water, but she was trapped inside the car for a long time because she was tangled in her seatbelt and if the jogger let her go her head would be underwater again. They had to wait for someone to pass by and get help.

[Elena5021]

Okay then can you put the segment when a teenage boy burned his back with a candle.

[chrisz71]

OH YEAH- I forgot about that one....

[Elena5021]

Can You upload...I don't know but Two segments or three?

1. Little Boy save mom from labor

2. little girl save mom again from labor

3. husband save wife from pregnantcy

4. ex-husband rape wife

[allgood2000]

I don't think there was one where an ex-husband rapes a wife.  You'll have to be more specific on the other three requests.

[IcePrincess73]

Wow, these people were so lucky.

[gregorkrause]

See segment #5 of Episode #106 where a suicidal woman drives right into the cars this one is an example of that segment because in both of these segments the crash itself was deleted/not shown.

[happy7117]

I wanted to see the Garbage Truck fly off the toe truck. We missed the most action packed scene of maximum carnage!

[theultimatekoopa2]

Was the actual part where the truck crushes the cars chopped out? Because you see the truck or something then, suddenly... 3 cars have been crushed and the ambulances are already there I think.

[allgood2000]

I don't think they ever filmed it. If they filmed it, I'm pretty sure they would have shown it.

[happy7117]

Perhaps it was filmed but not shown because it was too gruesome, so it was cut from the segment!

[allgood2000]

It would probably cost a lot of money to film a garbage truck flying off a tow truck and crushing cars, so I'm thinking if they filmed it they would have shown it. Maybe they tried to do it and could not re-create the crash.

[happy7117]

In general, how does anyone recreate a crash? For instance, the blind lady in the traffic accident-how would they go about re-creating that?? Using a real blind lady, or an actress wearing shades to denote she is blind, and carry a seeing-eye dog? And when the accident occured she would probably ask? "It feels like we crashed. What did we run into??"

[allgood2000]

I guess they bought cheap cars and paid stunt drivers to crash the cars. I read that for the segment where the suicidal lady drove her car the wrong way on Interstate that they filmed most of the stuff at 35 miles per hour and sped up the the film to make it look like it was about 90 miles per hour. I don't know much about stunts, but they might have used pipe ramps for car flips.

[happy7117]

Reminds me of Super Pursuit Mode in Knight Rider where KITT gets those fins that detract from the car. and speeds up immensely! The only way KITT is speeding up is by the film being sped up rapidly!! And from playing the game "Stuntman" for Playstation, I think they show during a cut scene what makes a car flip. It is called a roll-bar11 Couple that with a blind stunt-lady, and stunt driver and you have the making of a good collison!!

[Muggle423]

Is there a Rescue 911 site you can go to to read facts about the show and rescues?

[allgood2000]

Not really. I found out a lot of trivia by reading old articles from magazines and newspapers about Rescue 911. At my old community college, we had a database that let us search for those types things, but unfortunately I don't have access to it anymore.

[happy7117]

They could have resorted to using the Knight Rider Treatment! That is, use toy cars or models, or miniatures!!! They probably use minatures or models for the blind lady traffic accident!!

[MISSPLAYBOYBUNNY]

oh wow