Ohio I-90 Accident

I remember when OSP started buying white Crown Vics because they wanted to be more visible.

 

They had those in upstate NY, too. Not sure if they still do, but I was glad they did because at the time I was in an ungoverned truck, out there tryin to "be somebody"!

 

Indiana State Police did the same thing after a few accidents involving cruisers getting hit because of their dark colored paintjobs at night(they used to be dark blue or a shade of taupe).

 

People who are seriously distracted will literally become part of what is consuming them.

I used to manage traffic around linemen and their crews once upon a time as we sortied out to many places to replace destroyed poles, gas lines etc in areas where traffic is a problem. Add lights of emergency, police and better yet a covered over body the traffic is thoroughly destroyed until the visual distractions are removed and the scene cleared. People gave driven themselves into cars or state DOT trucks protecting workers and such because they must for some reason fill their eyes with the distraction.

 

Yeah, ALL emergency vehicles are required to have at least one solid burning red light towards the front. This started out as case law, before being codified. There was an individual, that was able to convince an idiotic judge, that the ONLY reason he didn't pull over and stop, was because he didn't see the red light on the cop car. He speculated that it must have been a situation where every time he checked his rear view mirror the light must have been cycling off.
Only in California would that ever fly.....

 

Heard on my way home today that the driver will face Vehicular Manslaughter charges.

I thought some of you might like to know.

 

When I was an Ohio State Trooper we used all red visabars..this was in the 70's.
We had these problems then too.

The truckers in those days used to see how close they could get to us...called it "dusting"..