just been looking at this site about trucking accidents
http://www.tis-gdv.de/tis_e/foto/inhalt.htm






While driving onto highway 31 from a main road in the Wesel district, a coach carrying school children failed to notice an oncoming articulated truck. The truck driver slammed on the brakes to avoid colliding with the coach.

The truck was loaded with three steel pipes inserted one inside another with a gross weight of 17 metric tons. It is not known how or whether the load was secured. What is certain is that the securing measures were inadequate as the deceleration was enough to make the pipes shoot forwards, crash through the trailer headboard and driver's cab before finally embedding themselves in the ground just in front of the coach's rear axle.

Almost unbelievably, the truck driver was only slightly injured, while the 58 children got away with a bad fright. The outcome could well have been fatal for some of them.

simon