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2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV Damaged After Transport Trailer Tips Over

In the electric vehicle segment, one of the most anticipated releases for the 2024 model year was the GMC Hummer EV SUV, which currently serves as one of General Motors’ flagship all-electric models. As such, examples of the super SUV can be hard to come by, as they’re highly desirable. With that in mind, imagine one buyer’s surprise when they learned that their Hummer EV SUV unit was involved in an accident during transport.

In photographs captured by Jeffrey Ziegler and posted to social media, we find a 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV Edition 1 that has unfortunately been damaged while en route to its new owner. The near 9,000-pound all-electric SUV was strapped way up on a transport trailer, and after the driver seemingly took a turn too quickly, the trailer tipped over.

Photo of 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV laying on its side.

It appears as though the Hummer EV SUV sustained quite a bit of damage on the side that met the blacktop. The entire starboard side of the vehicle is all crumpled up and disfigured, at least at surface level. At this time, it’s unclear if the Hummer is salvageable, and if the battery pack is still 100 percent intact.

Interestingly, these photos were captured in Bellevue, Washington, while the Hummer EV SUV in question featured a Cable Dahmer front plate, which is a dealer group located in Missouri. That means that this super SUV seemingly crossed roughly two-thirds of the United States on its way to its new owner.

As a reminder, the 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV – along with the Hummer EV Pickup – rides on the wide-body variant of the GM BT1 platform. Meanwhile, the narrow-body version of the same platform underpins the Chevy Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV.

Production takes place at the GM Factory Zero plant (previously known as the GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant) in Michigan, while Hummer EV Pickup production kicked off in November 2021, and Hummer EV SUV production commenced in January 2023.

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  1. It’s sad that so many of these transport drivers are so careless. Everyone seems to be short-staffed these days, but it sure seems like a lot of cars are being damaged in transit to the dealer by drivers who just don’t care. It’s really wasteful. Can’t imagine being the excited new owner of this Hummer EV SUV and getting the bad news!

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  2. It was so close to being in the new owner’s hands but so far away. They say you’re more likely to get into an accident the closer you are to home, with those odds doubling if you’re in a rush.

    The owner probably waited 2yrs, to see the end results of all that waiting posted on Social Media before even getting notified.

    I swear I get the latest breaking news from TikTok or Facebook before I hear it from a legacy network.

    Merry Christmas and God Bless America

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    1. Merry is spelled ‘Mary’

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  3. The thing is, and maybe I state the obvious, but unless that’s a dealer-contracted hauler (doubtful), then that Hummer is already owned by whomever is awaiting delivery. Probably have insurance, both the new owner as well as the transporter, but that vehicle will be the new owner’s to repair and fret about…

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  4. From above: “The near 9,000-pound all-electric SUV was strapped way up on a transport trailer, and after the driver seemingly took a turn too quickly, the trailer tipped over.”

    What exactly would you expect when you place a 9,000 pig up high like that? Yet they are so big that most car haulers probably won’t be able to load them on the lower levels unless they leave the top level empty. This hauler looks like just one level, but putting that pig in the back wouldn’t be advisable either.

    Just some of the problems you face when deciding to produce such a large and heavy thing.

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    1. It is a single level car hauler. If you look closely enough you can see the damaged pickup truck with a fifth wheel hitch, in front of the overturned vehicle. It doesn’t seem he had the right equipment for what he was hauling.

      That will probably buff right out.

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  5. jelly that vehicle should have been taken off and loaded on the very bottom of hauler if there had been room for it and another driver that didn.t has sense enough to slow down .

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  6. What an idiot.

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  7. Wondering if it ran after that since supposed to be so rugged. Yes that weight should not have been high on an empty trabsporter

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  8. Hindsight dictates a closed environment trailer and kid glove handling would have been something SOMEBODY would have thought of on the purchase and shipment of a $175,000 vehicle.

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    1. Depending on the width, it might not fit in an enclosed trailer, and if it did, the driver would either have to crawl out an open window or crawl over all the seats and out the back. I put an H2 Hummer in an enclosed trailer once, told the company I’d never haul another one. But I digress, the driver in this instance should have moved this vehicle probably somewhere back behind center at his last stop. I’ve seen too many times trailers like this turn over when the top front vehicle is the only one left on the trailer. Makes the center of gravity way too high.

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  9. If this was on its way from D-Ham to the dealer it would probably be scrapped. But, this looks like either a dealer trade or delivery to customer. In this case it looks like it’s going to be a contest between insurance companies. There are strict limits on what can be repaired on a transport damaged vehicle before it is received by the ordering dealer. Once the vehicle has been received by a dealer, all that changes.

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  10. Last month I saw some pics of a new Bronco being unloaded off the top front of a carrier. The Bronc was missing its windshield and frame, roof and the rear quarter was crumpled and smashed down over the rear wheels. Clearly a 15 foot load met a 13 foot overpass. Probably happens a lot more than we’d think.

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    1. Yes, it does.

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  11. Well, that’s at least one (1) Hummer EV they’ll sell…to the insurance company.

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  12. Not enough legit car hauler out there and now I see heavy duty pickups pulling these types of trailers from our local railroad yards just to get vehicles to the dealerships. Usually with to many vehicles being hauled, top heavy.

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