Early Morning 04/12/15 Near Fort Worth I-30
And as a side note - yet ANOTHER truck crash turns into burned out truck and I'll withhold my opinion regarding these situations, this time.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metr...ong-5-dead-12-injured-in-fort-worth-crash.ece
Multi-Fatality Fort Worth - Truck Turned 1 Bad Crash into A 2nd Worse Crash
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by STexan, Apr 12, 2015.
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You can fine drivers $1,000s and even suspended CDLs, but distracted drivin will still happen, IMO.
I'm guessin that's what happened here. -
At that hour, could have been "zoned out", half asleep, and/or on "mental auto-pilot", or distracted driving, certainly the driver was drug tested, too.
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The information I red,
First car hit center of highway bridge abutment.
There is no room on edge of the hammer lane. The article didn't say what side of the highway the others parked to try and help.
But being speculation "driver of truck" was a contractor for delivery of news papers in a Ryder rental semi truck.
2 am driver was probably just starting his driving shift, after trailer was loaded earlier.
Any of that area of highway has very little shoulder room for disabled vehicles. -
Sure, I get that but it's not like there are hills or turns blocking the view ahead. Probably some were stopped and/or standing where they shouldn't have been, but that's no reason for a driver not to see them and react accordingly. There had to have been lots of brake lights and other stopped vehicles and other things out of the ordinary that anyone with decent vision could have seen well before the scene. It's not like it all happened instantly in front of the trucker in a dense fog. When I see something stopped in the roadway ahead, I brake and prepare to e-stop if necessary. Plus that entire section is lit up with overhead lights.
But I understand we don't all drive with 100% attention to the road ahead, 100% of the time, and it only takes one moment at the wrong time to be 2 seconds too late to notice. Just a bad deal all around, regardless how/why it happened.tinytim and Dale thompson Thank this. -
ncmickey Thanks this.
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This was a tragic accident - and yet I fail to see how federal oversite could of prevented it...
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