Indiana trooper and truck collision

Trucker takes out trooper!

 

Aw ****,as if truck drivers didn't have enough to worry about going thru the Hoosier State as it is. Now ISP is going to be pulling over trucks left and right.

 

This type of accident is happening more often. Both by trucks and cars.
How can you possibly not see a police car with it's emergency light's flashing.
Plain and simple distracted driver.
Maybe if they started citing the driver's and require a mandatory court appearance, then suspend their license for a year with first conviction, these people would get their head out of the phone and pay attention to their driving.

 

Once on I-20, I was running in the left hand lane, a Texas Trooper met a tuck that was speeding, he came across the median, when he hit the asphalt, he shot out in front of me and I nearly hit him. That was back in the bird-dog days when the sped was 55 MPH. I had slowed down telling the driver who got a ticket he was meeting a trooper, but he did not believe me.

If his car just spun the tires I would have destroyed him.

 

Glad nobody was killed. Kinda sucks for everyone involved though, for different reasons.

 

Surely that unit was lit like a Christmas tree. How did the driver not see it?

I'm glad everyone survived, but I doubt that driver is going to be driving any time soon.

 

I notice in the picture that the troopers radio car is a slick top. In other words, it doesn't have a light bar on top of it. Now undoubtedly, it has warning lights in the rear window, and possible has the strobe flashing tail lights. Yeah, it SHOULD be enough.
BUT, from experience, (my last unit was a slick top,) people pay little attention to a highly visible light bar, let alone just having the deck/windshield/grill lights. Also kind of surprising that they were both sitting in the unit, rather than out directing traffic. I wonder if they had just arrived on the scene.
Usually they will set out flairs or traffic cones back a ways from their car. It's NEVER a good idea to sit in your car if you are trying to block or divert traffic!

That being said, I'll make it clear here that I am NOT defending the trucker in any manner. Just commenting on bad tactics from the LEOs. Hope they recover all right, and just possibly learn from this incident.

 

They already pull trucks over left and right, just more fuel to the fire...

 

I wonder if it was a lone unit or if others were on the scene already?