Multi-Fatality Fort Worth - Truck Turned 1 Bad Crash into A 2nd Worse Crash

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  1. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    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

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  3. sherlock510

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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.
     
  4. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    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.
     
  5. tinytim

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    http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/04/12/families-of-victims-killed-by-18-wheeler-still-in-disblief/
     
  6. 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.
     
  7. STexan

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    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.
     
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  8. missjhawk

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    I have come upon a schidner driver with his flashers on backing up Caz he missed his exit I assumed. From a distance it looked like he was on side of road. It wasn't till I got closer when I saw he was in the lane. When I passed him I saw he was backing up. So stupid. If cars had been beside me I would have hit him. All this was early in morning hours. As far as seeing brake lights if the people was out their cars there would not be any brake lights. Seeing things at a distance at night plays with your eyes tired or not. People are stupid. Where I live they walk in street like they got bumper's. Am sorry people died. Its only highly publicized just Caz a truck was involved. And they are gonna try and prove the driver was at fault just to get money.
     
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  9. Interplanet Janet

    Interplanet Janet Light Load Member

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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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