A great R/C loss?

[TitaniumXRC]

I was setting at my computer last night posting on my fave R/C forum when I herd a loud “BOOM”. (It sounded like my landscaping neighbor had dropped some heavy equipment off of his trailer.) Suddenly I felt a great loss in the (R/C) FORCE, as if hundreds of happy voices had been suddenly silenced.

Twenty minutes later my wife got a text that there was a big rig explosion on the freeway on the overpass near my house. We went outside to see the fire, however by that time the fire was out, and all I could see was smoke that covered the horizon, with the reflection of red lights.

This is what happened


MORENO VALLEY: Fiery crash caused 6-hour freeway closure
By
PE News
on January 26, 2011 7:44 AM

Last night's fiery big-rig crash — and the resulting cleanup — in Moreno Valley closed the eastbound lanes of Highway 60 for more than six hours, forcing motorists to detour until 3:25 a.m. today, California Highway Patrol officers say.

The wreck happened at 9:14 p.m. Tuesday near near Frederick Street when 59-year-old big-rig driver Martin Lopez of Van Nuys made an unsafe turn and crashed the 2002 Freightliner into the center divider, Officer Sylvia Vargas said in a written statement.

Lopez was unhurt, but flames destroyed the cab and the truck's trailer, which was loaded with 6,000 pounds of radio-controlled toy cars, according to the statement.

Debris initially closed even the westbound carpool and fast lanes, which were reopened at 11:18 p.m. But the eastbound closure persisted.

"It's a tractor-trailer. They had to unload the debris (of the burned cargo). They're just a big mess," Officer Jaci Parent said from the Traffic Management Center in San Bernardino. "The cleanup takes awhile."
— RICHARD BROOKS
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This is indeed a sad day of mourning.

[a01butal]

Fire Sale!

[Coelacanth]

I wonder if the trailer had a shipment of Kyosho Burns?

[LTO_Dave]

Hopefully it was a Traxxas rig.

[Erich Reichert]

It's the hottest car to hit the r/c scene BOOYAA!!!!

[Lowgear]

Theres a good possibility it was just some department store stuff.

[Incredible_Serious]

I think I can guess the next matthewjohn/PattyWagon excuse for not coughing up what he owes.... mrlexan was close with reference to a train wreck....

Alex

[Seabass]

I think I can guess the next matthewjohn/PattyWagon excuse for not coughing up what he owes.... mrlexan was close with reference to a train wreck....

Alex

[clinehobbies]

The truck was carryting a load of redcat rc cars, I got a message from redcat yesterday saying their container shipment cought fire and was a total loss.

[Halgar]

Hopefully it was a Traxxas rig.

Amen

[clinehobbies]

Here is a video http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=7920256

You can see redcat boxes in the video.

[Charlie don't surf]

Well, Redcat-Traxxas- whatever Least it wasn't Shodog's container of Tecnacrafts!!

[purpletimbo]

Redcat do a good 4wd 1/5 petrol truck, i am in for a fire damaged cheap

[mrlexan]

I think I can guess the next matthewjohn/PattyWagon excuse for not coughing up what he owes.... mrlexan was close with reference to a train wreck....

Alex

Dude, That is freggin FUNNY!!!!!

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... I guarantee some fireman's kids now have some nice Redcat RC cars. lol!

BTW I have a REDCAT Backdraft 8E 1/8th BUGGY. Great RC vehicle. Takes a real beating. Parts are dirt cheap to replace too. My only peev is some of their plastic parts are brittle.