Chain collisions tend to have a touch of humor, especially if no injuries are involved. One of these happened in Pendleton, Oregonbeing the cause of the incident a police vehicle.
According to east oregonianthis past December 5th Pendleton police were busy responding to multiple collisions in the middle of a modest snowfall. On a slippery hill, a police car Ford Explorer he became one of those stats when he skidded off the shoulder of the road.
The van was allegedly parked with no one inside as it slid into a boat on a trailer, which then collided with a full-size Ford pickup.
At that moment things get out of control, as illustrated by the video that was broadcast on TikTok. The great F-series It doesn’t slide downhill, it spins freely.
It’s not clear what happened, perhaps the collision broke the parking block on the transmission, or if it was manual it could have become disengaged.
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The truth is that the parking brake was not applied and, consequently, the truck rolls downhill as fast as gravity allows.
The clip shows at least four subsequent collisions between the Ford and other cars, including a Ram, a vintage Jeep Grand Cherokee and a third that cannot be seen.
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The police patrol began the chain of events, but numerous users of the social network point out that the F Series is being driven by not have the handbrake. You also wouldn’t have gained as much speed if the wheels were on a spin, a common safety practice when parking on a hill.
Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries, so the damage is exclusively material. The bad news is that a large part of the Midwestern states in the United States are being affected by a blizzard just before Christmas. That means the slippery hills there will be everywhere
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