Midland Truck Accident Elmwood & Price, Moncton

A Midland Transport lost the trailer on Elmwood Drive & Price streets this morning around 11 AM. Codiac Regional RCMP blocked off a couple lanes so the heavy duty tow truck could lift the trailer up enough to place some stands under the trailer so the tractor could back under it, because the accident damaged the stands that are on the trailer itself. Road conditions were dry at the time of the accident, this is a bad corner for truckers turning out of Price street , not enough room and they usually hit the curb trying to head north on Elmwood Drive towards the Trans Canada Highway which is not far from this intersection. 2 lanes of Elmwood Drive were blocked for almost 2 hours.

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[chuck738]

Unfortunately this probably had nothing to do with the corner,rather the trailer may have been a little high when he hooked up to it,allowing the kingpin to sit on top of the locking jaws,not clamped by them,then when the trailer rode the curb it would lift off out of the fifth wheel.

[Newschaser]

@chuck738 when I spoke to a photographer he said the same thing , that the driver probably didn't have the trailer hooked up properly

[KenworthT660andT700]

that's the reason you should always give your trailer a few tugs after hooking up to make sure the king pin is secure in the fifth-wheel

[agbdad2007]

DAMMIT DRIVER !!!!!!



[unfairlouisboo]

chuck738, the fifth wheel was hooked properly to the king pin, the fifth wheel had a defect in the clamp causing the pin to slip out under pressure, this accident was none preventable

[1bilalkhan]

i saw 2 acciedents in quebec the truck were up side down

[briancormier]

That's a really bad corner.

[JPOC226]

Come on MIDLAND!

[drjoe200fooo]

hahahahahahah thats funny i guess you missed the disturbance cal this morn behind mcdonald's this morn by morton's pub that was funny i was driving by