Also possible the Nissan was in the center lane . Werner may have been in the right lane and had just pulled out to pass another truck that slowed in the right lane as they got to the Nissan .
WERNER involved in another fatality - Nashville, TN
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by Semi Crazy, Jun 17, 2013.
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if man who hit car had not have wrecked he would not be sideways in interstate,his fault all the way.........
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And if a butterfly hadn't farted in China...
If you hit anything stationary that's bigger than a dog -- it's your fault for either going too fast or not looking far enough ahead. -
Not true . Insurance companies say you are not at fault when hitting a deer .
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well your part of the new America,im not at fault for my actions group
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forget it your right.......
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Some do, some don't. Regardless they're not motionless.
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That one I almost hit a couple weeks ago was just standing in the road when I topped the hill. Kicking on the jake got his butt in gear again. Guess in your whole two years you've seen just about everything there is to see out there. There is times that you just can't avoid stuff like this. I know the article doesn't state this but how do we know that the Nissan didn't spin in front of the truck and the driver tried to avoid hitting it but couldn't? You mentioned in an earlier post about out driving your sight? Have you ever had a four wheeler towing a trailer lose control and go flying across your lane and only miss them by about half an inch even with standing on the brakes? How about someone blowing a tire and almost taking off your front bumper when their vehicle swerved? Point is like I said, sometimes things can't be avoided. Just a case of being in the wrong spot at the wrong time.snowblind Thanks this.
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Seen enough. The fact is that your near miss would have been uneventful had you not been going too fast for conditions (crest of hill limiting your sight). Odds are you'll get away with it 100,000 times, but if/when it catches up to you, you ought to have the basic decency to admit your complacency caused the accident instead of trying to collectively pass the blame by telling yourself "we all do it."
There are things outside our control. But we can control a lot. And point blank, there is no excuse for hitting a large stationary object. This Werner driver killed a man involved in a prior accident. The death wasn't an accident, it was manslaughter.
But I guess in your 9 years you never really picked up much reading comprehension:
By the way, a fully loaded tractor trailer takes 350' to stop from 60mph. Werner pushed the car 300' -- so he probably didn't even apply the brakes until at/just before impact -- despite two cars crashing & coming to a stop ahead of him. Absolutely inexcusable. -
Wow Double Yellow... you're just the perfect driver aren't you.
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