jacknifing

jacknifing
A familiar cause of highway accidents, being a movement of a trailer contrary to the movement of the tractor, so that, joined together, they bend in the middle. 8 Am J2d Auto § 715. The movement known as jacknifing will result from the application of brakes to the tractor without putting on the brakes of the trailer. Fruehauf Trailer Co. v Gusewelle (CA8 Mo) 190 F2d 248, cert den 342 US 866, 96 L Ed 651, 72 S Ct 105.

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