6 Lineman Hit By City Dump Truck In Eden,N.C.-4 Killed

There are thoughts at the back of my brain on this one. I want to see the investigator's report...
I would not be surprised if the crew was not partially responsible for the accident.

Driver should have had it slowed down pretty well in a residential area like that. Even more so because of the construction congestion. Makes me wonder if it was brain failure or brake failure.

Was there a permanent post mounted stop sign that was hidden by one of the construction trucks?

Was the stop sign just stuck to a sandwich board, too low and therefore not visible?

Was somebody supposed to be doing traffic control and holding/waving the sign but just stuck it in a cone and walked away?

***** A little personal history on this. Kid I grew up with, 2 doors down a couple of years older than me, flipped his car reaching for a dropped cigarette on the floor. His brother was in the back seat and got ejected and killed. Cops charged him with, and he plead guilty to, involuntary manslaughter so that he could not be taken to trial because of the double indemnity rules (can't be tried for the same offense twice).

 

The Eden/Rockingham judicial system need some state and/or federal intervention, right now. So sad to read four deaths still being veiwed as misdemeanors, despite such blatant disregard for obvious laws.

 

A city truck being driven by a guy with no CDL? Man, the problems leading up to this have just begun. Lawyers are drooling all over the place.

 

City trying to separate itself from the employee . City didn't know for 8 years he was without a cdl , BS .

 

I did tree work from a bucket truck along the interstate. I can promise you those big trucks look a lot different when you’re 60 feet in the air and they fly by a couple feet from you. All they have to do is clip a bucket truck and the poor dude in the air is about to get a serious ride.

 

It doesn’t require a CDL to know to stop at a stop sign and to NOT run over people.

I’m still hoping for higher law enforcement and courts to step in.

 

A previous employer had a driver hit a utility worker, in a bucket, working on a traffic signal. Thankfully, the worker had secured his tether, because it saved him from falling to the ground. The worker sued the driver and my employer. He lost both cases, because he failed to deploy cones to establish a work zone.

The big failure for me was a truck driver not intelligent enough to give plenty of space to a human being trying to do a job. I can’t imagine being so ignorant as to pass under someone in a bucket and not realize that’s a problem.