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[Riggodeaux]

I-75, northbound, just south of the Adairsville, GA, exit [no. 306] Friday, day after Thanksgiving, 1100. I was pulling my sig. horse trailer to Tennessee when we came up to traffic stopped, all three lanes. After 30 minutes or so in stop'n'go, we saw, near the bottom of a gradual, downhill curve, a late model F150 [supercab, I think] UPSIDE DOWN, unhooked from the front of a LONG travel trailer [on its side]. The new-looking trailer was easily longer than my goose, which is 27 ft+. I got only a short look passing by [and the better half wouldn't let me snap a picture with my digital, sorry, no photos ...], but it didn't appear to have any kind of sway control hitch, just yer standard under the bumper hitch. The rig was sitting across two lanes, with the trailer out into the center median and the truck at maybe a 45 degree angle to traffic. It looked to me like the trailer had swayed, rolled onto its side, and flipped the truck. I didn't see that another vehicle was involved; several local fire, rescue, ambulance on site, hopefully no serious injuries, but at least $60k of rolling stock (probably more) totalled.

Guys and gals, this is why the wiser heads who share their wisdom with us on this forum get serious when they write about complying with load limits and using common sense and proper equipment. It was obvious that this F150 was seriously overloaded and not properly equiped to pull this big trailer.

Think about your truck's limits [including mods ...] and obey them! Please don't end up like this guy!