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Car drives in front of Steel Hauler in IN

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by Sportster2000, May 5, 2015.

  1. May 5, 2015 #1
    Sportster2000

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  3. May 5, 2015 #2
    tucker

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    I was going to post this too, but me no smart enough, unless I'm on my laptop. Me no postum link on iPhone.

    what? Odds are he left AK Steel and was going 45mph? Even if he was 60 plus, it's a simple left turn there.
    And the new "J" turn they have planned is going to suck for trucks or farm equipment.

    231 is looking like it was designed by a woman
     
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  4. May 5, 2015 #3
    tsavory

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    Wow I travel though there often hard to see why anyone would not have see the truck it's clear clean shot both directions.
    But so many think they can out run 231 traffic same with 37.
     
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    tucker Thanks this.
  5. May 5, 2015 #4
    Sportster2000

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    Seeing how he was hauling a steel coil I would say for certain that it was from AK which is about what, 1.5 miles down the road. He was probably doing the speed limit which is 60 by that time. The last fatality that happened on 231 was a middle school principal (retired) that lived less than 1 mile from where the accident happened. I just can not figure out why this is happening. INDOT's solution to this isn't any better, basically making it a Michigan left.
     
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  7. May 5, 2015 #5
    tsavory

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    Yeah they'll just jump out into the fast lane in front of you after you have seen them and changed to that lane so as not to hit the slow moving car.
    Or if you don't change lanes they won't either.
    I know on 37 it never fails if I see them pull from the left and stay in the right they pull into the right but if I switch they stay in the left. Some days think people are trying to get killed.

    Less than a mile so I am sure he's chanced it and pulled out there 500 times in less than ideal situation so tried it that one last time.
     
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