### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/1 "2014-07-10T17:17:17Z")
:eek: :eek: :eek: ☹
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OMG this happened yesterday evening outside of Little Rock on I40. Squint and focus your eyes. There’s a pancaked car under that truck. That \*was \*a Cadillac sedan.
local story
> **[Texas man killed in I-40 pileup](https://katv.com/archive/texas-man-killed-in-i-40-pileup)**
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> A Texas man is dead after a pileup on Interstate 40 Wednesday afternoon.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/2 "2014-07-10T17:21:00Z")
direct link to photo
[ ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsJecXyCUAAZ1S1.jpg)
The victim isn’t visible. I wouldn’t have linked if it was gory. I feel that’s disrespectful of the person’s family. They draped a sheet over the car in other images.
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### Author:  [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/3 "2014-07-10T17:30:38Z")
These photos are the reason why I don’t like being the car in front of tractor trailers, and if I end up between two on the road I’m getting the hell out of there as soon as possible.
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/4 "2014-07-10T20:35:41Z")
I came to this thread immediately after reading “The SDMB summed up in one picture”. At the risk of being disrespectful, this one comes close.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/5 "2014-07-10T21:46:10Z")
Seems to me that this is one scenario that Mythbusters didn’t think of. They had the trucks headed toward each other head-on.
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/6 "2014-07-10T22:27:46Z")
I’ve found myself in front of large vehicles that weren’t slowing down. I rapidly pumped my brakes so the brake lights flashed. So far it’s alerted them in time.
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/7 "2014-07-10T23:05:41Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> I came to this thread immediately after reading “The SDMB summed up in one picture”. At the risk of being disrespectful, this one comes close.
Naah, [this one’s closer.](http://racineexposed.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/trainwreck02.jpg)
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### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/8 "2014-07-11T05:22:24Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#):
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> Naah, [this one’s closer.](http://racineexposed.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/trainwreck02.jpg)
For the win !!! ↑↑↑ 😃
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### Author:  [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/9 "2014-07-11T06:35:17Z")
Holy Crap - what sort of force is involved to shunt TWO tractor trailer units?
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/10 "2014-07-11T06:39:01Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#):
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> Naah, [this one’s closer.](http://racineexposed.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/trainwreck02.jpg)
I know just how the kid in that picture feels.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/11 "2014-07-11T15:42:54Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Seems to me that this is one scenario that Mythbusters didn’t think of. They had the trucks headed toward each other head-on.
The car in the picture is also _under_ the trailer of the truck in front. The _Mythbusters_ episode was about a car getting squished _between_ two trucks, not being subducted.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/12 "2014-07-11T16:27:26Z")
My cousin died when squished between 2 trucks about 30 years ago, on the New Jersey Turnpike near the George Washington Bridge. I never saw pictures of it, nor would I want to.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/13 "2014-07-11T16:28:24Z")
> [@tracer](#):
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> The car in the picture is also _under_ the trailer of the truck in front. The _Mythbusters_ episode was about a car getting squished _between_ two trucks, not being subducted.
See the thread title. 😉
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/14 "2014-07-11T23:12:07Z")
One semi with trailer that didn’t stop. The news report says the caddy was behind the three trucks. The fourth truck comes along and never slows down. At least two of the truck drivers are in the hospital. I heard they had those lanes of I40 closed for over an hour and a half.
> [@bengangmo](#):
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> Holy Crap - what sort of force is involved to shunt TWO tractor trailer units?
> [@](#):
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> Three of the semis and the Cadillac sedan that was driven by Smith had slowed down for traffic ahead.
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> A fourth semi failed to slow and hit the Cadillac, causing it to be crushed underneath the semi in front of it, and caused a chain reaction with the other tractor trailers.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2014, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-gets-pancaked-between-two-semi-trucks/692776/15 "2014-07-12T08:54:56Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#):
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> Naah, [this one’s closer.](http://racineexposed.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/trainwreck02.jpg)
Or [this](http://www.kicswila.com/article-22763352.html).