Tow Company Handles Recovery with Care
The T&M Tow Company was contacted last week after a terrible accident to a Chief Cherokee and semi, near Eugene, Oregon. While trying to pass on a two-lane highway, the driver of the Chief Cherokee ran directly into a semi hauling a fifth wheel loaded with lumber. The Chief Cherokee was mangled. The semi ran off the road and the fifth wheel holding the lumber blew off upon impact.
The tow company team arrived to find quite a mess. The four-person, tow company team first winched the Chief Cherokee onto a flatbed. Next, they needed to unload the logs that hadn’t fallen. They placed them onto a backup trailer. Then they unhitched the fifth wheel from the cab so they could be handled separately The trailer was uprighted with a rotator and heavy wrecker working together. Next, the tow company team uprighted the cab.
T&M Towing urges everyone out there to please be careful out there. We hate seeing things like this.
Tow Company pulling logs off trailer
Tow Company placing logs onto backup trailer
Damaged Chief Cherokee after impact
Heavy Wrecker from Tow Company trying to get-at-semi
Details of Tow Company from Chief Cherokee Accident
Authorities called a tow company, T&M Towing and Hazmat after a fatal accident in Eugene. The tow company arrived at the scene to discover that Chief Cherokee had been destroyed after running head into a semi carrying logs on a fifth wheel. It was reported that when the driver of the Chief Cherokee, an 81-year-old man, tried to pass the vehicle in front of him, he ran head long into a semi hauling lumber going the opposite direction. A terrible accident occurred and a tow company was needed. When the accident occurred the fifth wheel from the semi kept pushing and bent the frame of the Chief Cherokee so it was at a 90 degree. The recovery for the tow company first required removing the Chief Cherokee. The tow company attached a winch to the car and hauled it out of the ditch. Next, the tow company straighter the flatbed in order to place the damaged Chief Cherokee. Carefully, the tow company pulled the car onto the flatbed trailer. The tow company attached the front tires to the flatbed with chains and straps. Next, the tow company attached the rear tires to the flatbed with chains and straps. The flatbed with the Chief Cherokee drove away. Next, the tow company employees of T&M unloaded the logs that hadn’t rolled off. The tow company team then unhitched the fifth wheel from the cab. the tow company team attached straps and chains to the fifth wheel, securing it on the Axel and other critical positions. They then pulled the fifth wheel up and set it down. Next, the tow company team attached straps and chains to the cab. They then uprighted it. The cab was towed away as was the fifth wheel.
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