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Recreational vehicle overturns on Highway 101 near San Luis Obispo

February 27, 2025

Photo by Summer Awbrey

By KAREN VELIE

A recreational vehicle flipped on Highway 101 north of San Luis Obispo on Thursday afternoon slowing traffic for hours.

Shortly before 5 p.m., a blue pickup truck was towing a recreational vehicle southbound when the truck and RV jackknifed and the recreational vehicle rolled onto its side, blocking two lanes of traffic. A red off-road vehicle and debris scattered across the highway.

Photo by Summer Awbrey

Drivers headed northbound on Highway 101 called 9-1-1 to report rocks from the crash hit their vehicles, according to the CHP. No one was injured in the accident.

All lane are expected to be open by 9:30 p.m.

 


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Chances are the trailer brakes were not used correctly or failed causing the trailer to push the truck to one side or Jack knife.

Towing a ten thousand pound trailer with a sixty-five hundred pound vehicle requires special attention and knowledge if you don’t have it don’t tow it.


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Rec vehicle overturned? Nope. An illegal towing operation in high winds results in a perilous accident. The clown driving the truck should pay any costs associated with the recovery and restoration of the highway. Please follow up.


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It’s called an accident.


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Big signs, and multiple of them, telling trucks, and trailers being towed that 35mph is max speed going South on the Grade.


This speed is SPECIFICALLY posted to prevent jack knifing.


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My guess is not illegal towing but unsafe speed and or undafe following distance and a quick brake from a vehicle ahead, and how the ATV was secured might also have been unsafe.


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