The drivers of these huge vehicles have to take extreme care whilst driving as it would be easy to drive over and crush a car or a person and not even notice ! They are very big and very dangerous things these super big vehicles. The pictures below depict some tragedies that have occurred with these big vehicles.

  New safety measures and guidelines that in all probability get amended all the time, insure these types of occurrences are minimised.

A mining lorry practically  ' ran over '  a car and would have done had not the driver hit the brakes !

A truck carrying coal has erupted into flame, the tyres of course on any vehicle are very flammable. Given enough time the coal would be ablaze too !

Driving a several hundred ton truck down a steep slope could end up with a slight difficulty of being slightly front end heavy !..........or rear end heavy.....

Your guess is as good as mine how the wheel dropped off this truck with the result of it getting tipped up on end ? Maybe the weight of the wheel ( several tons ) acts like a counter balance.

Below: A car is deliberately crushed by a 400 ton truck, may it was pancake day !

Apparently this sort of accident is quite common with these big rigs.

A Liebherr T262 practically squashes a 4x4 utility vehicle, had the driver of the Liebherr not stopped in time then he would have quite easily driven completely over the vehicle.

The big Komatsu in the image above is apparently in the process of running over a van. No more information can be sought about this incident.

Thanks to Mr. Walter Marshall for identifying the above vehicle as a Komatsu.

Below: This 4x4 car was unlucky enough to get in the way of a passing mining truck, the 150 ton mining truck drove over the front end of it.

Driving along with the dumper in the raised position is not recommended !

You would have thought the truck was powerful enough to have ripped the gantry down....

....not so !

This coach was run over by one of these huge trucks. No injuries were  reported.

This driver hit the brakes just in time. And another truck is caught whilst the dumper was in the raised position.

When worlds collide !

If you going to have a head on smash in a 300 ton truck then is best to hit another 300 ton truck to even the balance !

Do they call them 'tipper trucks' because they can tip over ? 

An unevenly balanced payload can tip one of these trucks on its side quite easily. Open cast mines are very dangerous places to work.

A Komatsu truck lies on its side for as rest ! Its hard to believe that trucks of this size can actually 'fall over' but these photos prove otherwise.

Below a Komatsu finally succumbs to a 200 ton boulder that was not loaded properly into its dumper.