I hope the trailer was OK.
What even WAS that car? Looks like it went under
100 to 105mph speed hitting me at 61/63mph. Was a Pontiac G6. 26yr old kid. Never had a ticket in his life. Driving home from work fell asleep at the wheel we assume, since he had just started a job 90mi from his home.
Hit the rear of the M322m wedged underneath it. Impact and sparks lit the rear hydraulics for the ramps on fire. 1600 tire was on fire in the windshield when I climbed thru the back window, broke the seat back, and broke his right leg in order to extract his pinned leg. He was unconscious.
He survived the crash but was brain dead and died about 10days later.
Whole rear of the trailer caught on fire. My skytrack caught on fire. Burned up both rear trailer tires, all brake lines, chambers, broke u bolts on rear axle, rear hydraulics. Shockwave thru the impact even broke the motor mounts oh my engine and broke a torque rod. This mind you weighing close to 65k getting hit by a 3500lb car.
Had I NOT had the trailer I would have been dead. It would have ran up under the rear of the 5 ton. Hit an axle, broke more torque rods, shifted the rear axles and thrown me off into the ditch to roll over.
There are several threads on here about these slow moving trucks getting hit by cars. Most trucks get totalled out cause the impact shock breaks everything aluminum on the truck right off. Like your engine bellhousing, transmission, your transfer case mounts at the minimum if your lucky.
We have had several members pass away from being rear ended and thrown off the road to just roll the truck over.
Being big and Tall doesn't mean anything with a certain amount of force.