2 Killed, at night, no Lights on truck !!!

Yeah thats true about the seatbelts. You'd think everyone now knows the importance of the seatbelt and that we all NEED to wear them EVERYTIME!

(bodies in motion stay in motion until some force stops it)

The thing about the tail lights not working is, how do you prove it? More than likely you can't unless the UPS driver had video in his truck, which i doubt.

Then there's the speed issue. Was the UPS driver going too fast for conditions? Is there a minimum speed on that road? (probably not)

I sure would love to get a video camera on my dash for this very reason!

 

When lights are burning and they are blown because of impact, it is easy for investigators to tell. The element fries in a specific way. If the lights weren't on at all and were cool at impact, it is easy to tell there too, because the elements break rather than melt. They can tell if the lights were burned out before impact from the age of the damage.

 

What do you think he should have done, parked on the side of the road until morning? That would have been an accident waiting to happen.

 

Not left when he did his pre trip inspection and found the lights not working.