I see what you are saying. Those are the same
pictures that I have seen before. On the one forum I
saw them on, it was the general consensus that the
trailer had to have been attached to the truck and
loaded with a lot of weight to keep the truck from
completely flipping over the rail.
--- jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
> Yes, I'd say that is probably a trailer, but it
> is clearly *not*
> attached to the W250. I'm not even sure if that is
> the back end of a
> trailer or the middle part which is under the truck
> bed. I'm assuming
> it is part of the recovery effort. You can't see it
> in the first pics
> (although its not clear that it would be visible
> because of the
> parmedic standing in the way), but after the driver
> has been
> extricated, I assumed they backed the trailer under
> the edge of the
> truck bed, and they are about to lift the whole mess
> up and put it on
> the trailer to haul it away. Notice that the
> J-hooks are gone by this
> time. (Or the one on the passenger side is, anyway.)
>
> Granted, I am making some assumptions here, but
> between the fact
> that the yellow trailer is definitely not hitched to
> the W250, the
> color being a "highway/safety orange" color (and
> thus making it
> possible that it was brought in for the recovery) I
> would think lends
> some credence to that theory. Its not much to go on
> I admit, but that
> has a lot more going for it than assuming the
> trailer was attached to
> the truck, I don't see any evidence whatsoever to
> back that one up.
>
> I stick by my original statement. There may be
> other pics out
> there showing a trailer hooked to the truck, but
> none of the 4 on
> wreckedexotics.com show that.
>
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
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