Dash Cam Shows Semi Truck Narrowly Miss Ohio State Trooper, Driver

Hi SHO-TYME, I think it's pretty much common knowledge to move over. Clearly, in this situation, the truck driver was either nodding off or texting, and drifted onto the shoulder and hit the cop car.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4488397]Hi SHO-TYME, I think it's pretty much common knowledge to move over. Clearly, in this situation, the truck driver was either nodding off or texting, and drifted onto the shoulder and hit the cop car.[/QUOTE]

Some just plain don't pay attention.

I saw traffic slowing ahead of me one day, I start slowing down, turn my 4 ways on, a flatbed goes flying be me, locks up the brakes and almost plows into the traffic in front him. He gets on the radio and says "I didn't see that traffic stopped, what's going on?" I said "Why do you think I had my flashers on and was slowing down?"

 

EZ sounds like the CRST driver I encountered at the Ft. Morgan scale last week. He failed to move over for a State Trooper dealing with a tow truck and a disabled vehicle. My understanding, he got a rather hefty ticket and an intensive Lvl 1

 

After coming by the accident scene in Florida last summer where the female state trooper was killed, along tow other people, by a 4 wheeler who slammed into them as they stood in the median. If you hit a marked patrol car, with the lights flashing, they should be able to pull you out of your vehicle, pop two rounds in your skull and leave you there.

If you don't pay attention to any vehicle on the shoulder with flashing lights, you shouldn't be driving.

End of discussion.

 

Wow, that's a little harsh, SHO-TYME. These are human beings we're talking about, not machines or robots. Humans are going to make mistakes, we can't have 0 risk in this life, as much as we'd like to. It's a shame we always deal with "after the fact", rather than prevention. Not sure why that is. That is totally tragic that the trooper and others got killed, but I've seen LEO's do some pretty stupid things, dealing with the situation at hand, and totally oblivious to what could happen next. The solution in that situation, would have been, I feel, get the people involved in the 1st crash far away from traffic, as the chances of someone not paying attention and crashing into the first accident are extremely high nowadays.