Truck being driven was most likely one of These (notice the hydraulic arm for the concrete chute on the front and in the video). Concrete probably sloshed out of the top and thus down the chute onto the car. IDK if there’s a way to close these up when in “transport” mode.
There’s no way to tell if the truck is going too fast since we don’t know the speed limit of the road nor the truck’s actual speed. Regardless that’s a lot of weight you need to stop in a short period of time even if the driver was going under the speed limit.
My armchair guess is genuine accident caused by poor visibility with the bush in the way and the driver understandably freezing up with a giant ass truck barreling up on them
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Truck driver is wrong for going out with an unsecured load. They were driving too fast. Even if it hadn’t been a car that got splattered wet concrete in the road would be a major hazard.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Yeah why does it keep pouring that long after the truck is stopped? Something wasnt not done properly here.
Colors@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Can’t confirm the quantity that would release, but a front-loading cement truck would certainly dump at least a small amount of concrete when slamming on the brakes that hard. The slump of the concrete seems to be 7-8”(loose) and there is no mechanism that would completely prevent concrete from spilling forward that I am aware of.
That said, the concrete does appear to continue for a while after reasonably assuming gravity would stop the flow. Maybe he turned on the hydraulics since he was pissed?
Ibaudia@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This is also true but I still enjoy seeing someone who probably shouldn’t be driving face consequences for failing to follow basic road safety