Another amazon accident…involving fatalities

That short clip of the good samaritans trying to get to the person in that burning crumpled up to nothing car really hits hard.

Instead of actually helping to solve the problem, I wouldn't be surprised if amazon switched to white unbranded trailers to avoid the bad PR of seeing their contractors involved in fatal wrecks all the time

 

Or they could demand safe operations out of their carriers. This is becoming way too common, almost a daily occurrence with these guys, Amazon releases a statement, and goes back to doing Amazon things. Rinse & repeat.

 

There won't be any consequences to Amazon and this will continue to happen. It'll be somewhere else soon. For the people in Austin and now Chattanooga it's just a tragic, unfortunate truck crash. I doubt anyone outside of our industry in Chattanooga knows about the Austin incident or Amazon Prime's wreckless trucks, and vice versa. No outcry means business as usual and for Amazon that means money is more important than lives.

 

This is one of the many reasons why I give Amazon trucks a wide berth. Even the FedEx Ground trucks have been trying to avoid them as of late!

 

That is a screwy interchange. The west bound traffic exits to the right and two lanes merge into one right in the middle of the off ramp. Traffic always backs up there just from the confusion.

 

Amazon again and this was no accident:
Amazon driver caught with her pants down in surveillance footage after families find stomach-turning 'deliveries' on porch

 

75 north there used to exit to the left onto 24 west. It seemed to be a lot smoother then but wasn't totally immune to backups. The southbound 75 bridge over that interchange fell off 4 or 5 years ago. It wasn't long after that they came in and redesigned/rebuilt the whole interchange.

At some point I think the finished version is going to be two lanes exiting to the right and both merging onto 24 as two lanes. Right now it's two that chokes down into one but there's room to paint lines and make it two all the way. They should be finishing up the construction on that first part of 24 sometime later this year.

 

This accident is fully the driver’s fault; not the interchange. Clearly, he wasn’t watching the road.

No matter how it’s oriented, so few of lanes will never be able to handle the volume of traffic seen through there, these days. There will always be a backup, there. And, once through that exit, the number of lanes will always be restricted, because of infrastructure restrictions. Then, there’s the climb up over the ridge. There is simply no way of increasing traffic flow.

 

Agree on the driver being at fault there. It's been a cluster practically daily sometimes all day long ever since they moved it from a left hand exit over to the right hand side. But I do believe when construction is finished it'll improve the flow through there and the all day long clusters won't be happening anymore.