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Bill S.

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Posted: 07/12/08 07:00am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Although this wasn't a class A RV, it just as well could have been.

Watch that overhead clearance!

FROM SHELBY COUNTY JULY 2, 2008: At approximately 3 PM, Tuesday, July 2, a 2008 Dodge Ram 2500, pulling a new travel trailer, hit the corner of the Texas State Bank Drive-In on Tenaha Street, causing the complete awning to come to the ground. Luckily, the driver of the Dodge, Mickey Miller, of Garrison and his 10 year old son were able to exit their vehicle uninjured. According to Miller he was circling the bank to park on the other side when the corner of his travel trailer caught the corner of the bank canopy...


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Posted: 07/12/08 07:22am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

I'm not sure I'd call a concrete slab an "awning", but that was one close call for the people in the cab. Not a very well braced roof.

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Posted: 07/12/08 07:44am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

WOW.........I'd say they were very lucky to escape unhurt....looked like it smashed the cab of the pickup. Be careful.
Brian

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Posted: 07/12/08 08:14am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

I would have thought the roof would have been built to handle a situation like that... Looks like it just came right down....

Hard to tell, were there no steal supports within the concrete blocks?

Ouch

Bruce Brown

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Posted: 07/12/08 09:58am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Wow!


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That canopy is criminal in my opinion! Obviously it was his fault for hitting it, but it should be better designed than crushing whatever might be under it! Imagine if someone had been in a car at the atm, they would have been crushed! I smell a lawsuit!

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