A bit of an insurance claim to our south
This happened yesterday in the town of Vancouver, WA located on the Washington/Oregon border just across from Portland.
From
KATU-TV in Portland:
15-ton steel silo falls off truck, lands on car
A steel silo weighing about 15 tons rolled off a flatbed truck in the Vancouver area and landed on top of a parked car.
The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. Friday along the Interstate 205 off-ramp from eastbound SR 14. The steel silo somehow got loose from the semi, rolled down an embankment and then landed on a parked car, crushing it.
No one was inside the car, a white Subaru that was sitting on a side street. As it turned out, the owner had parked there to go on a bike ride and when she returned, she could not believe what had happened.
"I was pretty upset when I first saw it," said Cindy Werner. "I lost another Subaru about six months ago. Somebody stole it and set it on fire. So it's not been a good year for me and Subarus."
And of course, the obligatory pictures:
Yikes! That would be a bit of a surprise...
Posted by DaveH at August 11, 2007 9:54 PM