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 11/07/2008 10:13:36 PM · #1
Apparently this truck just decided to flip over:
(Speed limit was 65)

Aerial view of the same scene:

Notice the pillars that hold the steel ropes dividing the highway, that are supposed to keep cars from running across the median onto opposite traffic: . Apparently, these work for trucks. I think that those steel ropes flipped it.
The driver was taken to the hospital, but since I haven't heard anything on the news, I assume that he ended up OK: .

A few hundred feet before this scene, there was this car perpendicular to the road:


You draw your own conclusions...

Me, I just happened to have my 70-200 with me at work today.
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