Quote Originally Posted by MeJasonT View Post
We are only slightly missing the point that there is enough weight in the trailer to lift the back end of a car.
perhaps its full of pies, the dood certainly looks like he couldn't have caught up to the wagon if it stopped 10 feet further down the road.
yes it was enough to lift the back of the car however this could have been a trailer load of water with the maximum recommended tongue weight while traveling a flat tire would cause undulations or sloshing side to side which would eventually become forward to rear ward movement once the weight to the rear exceeded the neutral balance the car would be the looser. the same thing can happen hauling Pies or dirt not so mush as sloshing but the sudden sideways shift from a blow out would cause a driver to attempt to correct in the opposite direction in doing this it would cause the dirt to be shifted to a back corner if the dirt were piled up in the center, no reason to think otherwise since it was more than likely loaded by a loader but even if shoveled in it would be unlikely that anyone would have taken the time to level it out so the center mound would the thrown towards the coroner by centrifugal force as the guy whipped the steering wheel. A trailer and car that size probably had around a 100 lb max tongue weight which would mean only 1 cf of dirt would be enough to cause near neutral balance one more swing and it is all over .
Seeing the height of whatever the load is in the trailer above the sides there is no dispute to the original post that the trailer was overloaded. and looking at the distance between the axle and the bed of the trailer it had a high center of gravity to boot.
Estimating the size to be around 3 1/2 ft by 5 ft with 18" sides you could almost get a cubic yard in that trailer or more than 2 times the weight that those tiny little tires could carry but even half a cubic yard of dirt would weigh more than half as much as the car