Another car causes a truck wreck in Indiana

I bet you'd be surprised how close that number could be to 25%. Maybe Grandma isn't drinking, but she's taken enough prescription drugs to see pink elephants dancing on the hood of her car.

And as for the 900 ft stopping distance, it takes 525ft at 65 mph in a panic brake to get stopped, so the 900 isn't too far out.

I feel for the driver, he couldn't yank the wheel too hard or he could of rolled, missed the drunk and the drunk left the scene, then everyone is blaming the "dumb truck driver."

The herd thinned by 1.

 

i was on meds for a while that i refused to drive for that reason. i didnt feel safe taking the and driving..(no longer on them) but you have a definite point Show~Tyme (might i add, i retired last year due to health issues )....

 

so sad that a life was lost....but he intentionally got behind the wheel....i feel sorry for the truck driver he hit...minding his own business...like was mentioned, hope he was legal, but i am sure some sleezeball lawyer will find something to blame the driver for...

 

Sometimes it's not drunks either, I've witnessed three incidents with diabetics having medial issues and losing control, one happened yesterday in Atlanta on I-285 during rush hour. The police and fire department finally had to get beside the car, break out the window and jump in to get the car stopped.

 

I have no idea what of my post might have led you to imagine anything of the sort.

I don't think I can accurately parse from that exactly what you intended to convey, but it seems to suggest motorists to the rear of this particular crash wouldn't have noticed a truck running over a 4-wheeler, and if they did they would not have time to react to it... and stopping "too fast" in reaction to a crash would render the stopper responsible for crashes to their rear... somehow.

I can see it many ways. What I don't see, from the report, is any timely or proper reaction on the part of the truck driver. Even you seem to presume the truck was doing 65 after the collision, and the driver, somehow, might have been avoiding jackknifing during the presumably "emergency" lane change.

For all we know the truck was doing 80 when the collision occurred. IF the driver was not in compliance with the speed limit, this collision, in the manner it is reported to have occurred, could not have occurred. The truck would have not occupied that particular space on the planet.

Well, it's an estimate, extrapolated from the number of crashing motorists and those otherwise found to have mind altering substances in their bodies.