Was this preventable?

yes it is preventable..

 

You came here to ask if this was preventable...but obviously you are looking for justification for what happened. As now its the SUV's fault for swerving and the abandoned 4 wheelers fault for being where it was. Fact is YOU are the professional driver. YOU have to access this situation at a moment's notice..and you can not leave your lane if leaving your lane means hitting another vehicle. The fact of the matter is, if you would have slowed when you saw this potential problem arising you would have been able to react in a better manner.

And regardless if the car wasn't supposed to be abandoned there...the question is was it PREVENTABLE..not whose fault was it...and you left your lane and hit a parked vehicle...that's PREVENTABLE.

 

This is simply not true.

 

I had a closed call on jk last night when a jackash threw his emergency brakes for no obvious reason while I was going at full speed(62mph) I blew my horn threw my hazard lights and braced for impact.... He quickly realized he was going to died if he didn't moved he moved just enough for me to miss him by few inches.

 

If you didn't know with absolute certainty that the shoulder was clear, you should never have moved onto the shoulder for any reason. You made the decision to vacate your lane, and in doing so you assumed responsibility for anything and everything that happened...including the wreck. There really isn't much more to it than that. Your company's insurance is going to be paying for ALL of the damages resulting from your wreck.

IF the SUV had hit you in your lane, the SUV would be at fault and you'd have a fighting chance to have the wreck classified as non-preventable because the other vehicle entered into your lane and struck you. As it is, though, the SUV never made contact with your truck, so it wasn't involved...and since it wasn't involved, it doesn't exist.

 

As an aside. If 2 vehicles are stopped in line, one behind the other, at a stop light, and a third vehicle plows into the rear of the second vehicle, causing him to roll forward or be pushed into the first vehicle, most of the times the insurance company of the second vehicle (who was rear-ended) will be required to pay for the damages to the first vehicle even though he was in no way at fault. however only the driver who rear-ended the second vehicle will be cited with a moving violation.

this is a good reason why it pays not to pull up too close behind a vehicle at a stop light or other stopped traffic.

 

Easy there Joe. I know it is still a "raw wound" with you. But if you come on a forum and ask for opinions, you are going to get just that.

You asked if it was preventable. That is all you asked. The answer is obviously, "yes, it was preventable." But keep in mind that decisions we make as drivers in a split second can and will be Monday Morning Quarterbacked at the leisure of other folks. We don't have the benefit of the time to look at all of the possibilities, but that makes no difference to the outcome of things.