Plenty of spectator sports around the country are based around the destruction of vehicles, such as demolition derbies and monster truck rallies. But those sports are missing one thing: gigantic construction equipment that barely even notice when they run over things.
When a monster truck runs over a car, it bounces all over the place, nearly flipping itself over, which makes what you are about to watch even more impressive. The video below, uploaded to Youtube by richardperth2002, was created for safety awareness in the mining industry, to show how important it is to keep a safe distance from the gigantic mining equipment all around. The mining industry has plenty of varieties of huge equipment and you can watch a video of the top 10 biggest by clicking here.
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Many of the haul trucks in the mining industry have transitioned into autonomous, self-driving vehicles due to hostile and remote locations of mines that are hard to get workers to travel to. Based on the video below, it’s barely even noticeable to a driver if a car is run over, so a driverless truck will have no mercy if a car gets run over. As you’ll see, the Komatsu haul truck only suffers a few scratches after it completely flattens the SUV like a pancake. Although this is geared towards the mining industry, it’s also an important lesson for the construction industry, even though the machines are much smaller. They’re still plenty powerful and heavy enough to obliterate anything in its path. Bottom line: stay out of the way if you want your body and car to stay 3-dimensional.
On Tuesday morning, February 23, the Syracuse Fire Department responded to a call about a collapsed crane on a construction site near the university. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.