Help with defending lawsuit

He's not really. The officer determined that the driver was not at fault but that has nothing to do with a civil suit. Just like OJ was found innocent but lost when the family sued him for the same crime.

 

I think if it was OJ, instead of the 78 year old, probably flooring the Peterbilt and grabbing at least 7 gears would have been perfectly acceptable, as long as the driver tipped his hat, hence making it a "civil assault".

 

Alright, here is a simple geometric calculation that your accident recontructionist can use.

From the helpful pics posted from the cab of the Pete, it's easy to calculate with a ruler the A-B axis of the 3 dimensional view point AND the blind spot. Simply count the number and spacing of the white lines in the distance and juxtaposition them against the beginning of the hood to the windshield. Since, in this case, the white lines are not visible, measure the length of the visible car (I'm too dumb to know the make and model) against the standard of that model and divide the resulting multiple from the back of the visible vehicle to the beginning of the tractor. Add an approximate footage of 3', since standard seats are spaced that far from the windshield(without measuring driver adjustment of comfort), so give yourself a 3-6" margin of comfort.

As for the X-Y axis, measure the distance on the visible right side of the guard fence from top to bottom, then subtract the invisible section on the left. Add the height of the driver from the height from their waist to their eyes.

This will give you parameters to draw both a visibility angle on fore and port/starboard view angles on a graph chart. Once plotted, you have your visibility angles.

Just sayin', ya'll.

 

hell your talkin to a bunch of truckers ahhahaha we are all about being skeptical and always figuring out our own versions of conspiracy theories hahahhaha

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_GJsedidAk&feature=related

watch when he pulls up to red light at 2.09 into it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_iAtSOtS8

This is a good one of a 379 ext hood

 

A Pete 379 !!!!He could have had the air drained out of the drivers seat and moved to the back into the sleeper like a lot of Pete Billy Big Riggers like to do. From that vantage point he couldn't see anything in front of him for at least 50 feet.

 

5'7" inches flat on his back maybe. But that 78 year old guy could lost lost 6 or more inches just from being hunched over which is not uncommon at his age.