Car flipped oton wheels.

I was in a accident once where small car I was passenger in slid on a snowy mountain curve and flipped on its side. The driver and I were able to upright it and continue driving.

No pictures so I can only guess. Vehicles generally don't like to rest on their sides, preferring instead to be on their wheels or the roof. So especially if the terrain helped in any way, it wouldn't be a huge trick to push a vehicle over onto its wheels.

Cable TV (Weather Channel here) has 2 programs re tow/heavy rescue outfits, "Highway thru Hell" and "Heavy Rescue 401"

Watch a few episodes and you will see how the do this and more.

With car on its side, they usually hook cables to the two wheels in the air, and just tip it back over upright.

It was, you just couldn't see the cable.

There are examples of that with a fully loaded B double semi in the doco series Towies.

I record and watch them all the time. What amazes me, sometimes they upright the truck, start it up and drive away.

Some of the jobs look fairly easy but most are tough work rigging and pulling. I wish they gave how much they charge. Recently heard of one in Ohio that required three rigs and a couple of extra people and topped $20,000.

That 401 passes about 15 miles from my front door. Busiest stretch of highway in North America - busier than LA thruway

On a scale of 1 to 10, it was going uphill about a 2 the direction it had to be turned. I moved my car a couple times to get a better view, but couldn't. I might have parked and gotten out but there was no parking lane and I'd just had that surgery. I was supposed to get a rid home but I escaped and drove myself. (Though it didn't hurt then and it hurts now. )

Ah, the Mac and Jac Speedway... Is it as crazy as it was in the '70s?

Flat-bed is the word I was looking for. Slides back, front goes up, extension goes backward down to the ground, so the car can be pulled up on it. Then when it's past the fulcrom, it goes flat again.

All but one on youtube were rock videos! But I added the word wreck and got some hits.

You tube has seveal full episodes of this, 45 minutes each.

You mean no machinery, they just pull by hand on the cables? That would account for why I couldn't see anything.

Nope, they use winches.

Nope.

Ever see videos of rioters overturning police cars? A car on its side is even less stable. Now an eighteen wheeler on its side, that's a project.

The operator hooks chains or straps to appropriate points then either drives forward or uses the winch. It is a science. I recommend Ron Pratt on U tube. He has a rotator and fleet of flatbeds.

They are usually called rollback tow trucks or trailers.

Back in the 1960's a cousin was going deer hunting. He hit a deer with one of the small imported cars. It turned on its top. Several people flipped it back on its wheels by hand. He put some oil in it and drove it home . Sort of an expensive way to hunt deer.

We had a small Renault Dauphine with a roof rack for a rowboat. Going fishing with my dad we pulled up to Third Lake and some other fishermen were laughing at us. We get out and my dad says to them "Stop laughing and help me turn it over".

That would have been a sight. Those things were slightly bigger than an Isetta. At least the doors on a Dauphine weren't the first part to impact.

The '70s were a walk in the park.

Real fun doing recovery with a hand cranked Holmes 330 wrecker on an old 1946? power wagon. That was back in the late 60s and early 70s

I still don't know. This was bigger than an imported car and there were only two guys to do it. Reasonably sized guys but neither was a tank.