Semi carrying military explosives crashes in Oklahoma

That's a turnout onto a 4-lane highway with a 65 MPH speed limit from a truckstop and casino. Traffic volume is rarely heavy, especially at that hour and there's easily a mile visibility each way and it's straight each way. No reason other then failing to "look twice" to do that. Could be the automobile was traveling at a high rate of speed and the trucker did not gauge this properly.

And carrying 1.1 you'd think a driver would be extra cautious pulling out onto a roadway.

 

"Timmons said the driver of the semi - Renetta Williams of Malvern, Arkansas, - pulled onto the highway northbound from a truck stop and the rear tires of the trailer were struck by the northbound vehicle driven by Jones."

sounds like the car driver had plenty of time to not hit her seeing he hit the rear tires of the trailer....10-15 seconds in my mind

 

Where and and at what angle did the car hit the tires?
Sometimes the car drivers will try to guess where the truck is going, and guess wrong, like the truck might have been still moving into another lane. The car whipped into that lane thinking it would speed around the truck$

 

Or maybe the driver was texting and didn't see the shiny reflectors

 

The hell so you get off, guy? Blaming a four wheeler in a CMV related accident? May Christ have mercy on your sorry soul!


all kidding aside, great testament to the workmanship that went into that ordinance, to the extent nothing went pop or boom.

 

If there was a 4wheeler forum they would had done the opposite. Blame the truck driver! He was going too slow across the intersection! Why do they go so slow? Must get in front and save 5 seconds!

 

"Hmmm if I can get in front of this 78,000 lb CMV doing 65, 500 feet before my exit, I can save 4 whole seconds of my life!"

 

There is not a "turn merge area" near the center median there IIRC, so you have to decide which lane you're going to shoot for once you commit, especially if you see someone coming the same direction but you still feel you have time to make the entry onto the roadway. The truck would have entered the road from the west side of the road, and had to cross a shoulder and 2 southbound lanes and a center turn/median area, then turn north bound onto 2 lanes and a shoulder. The car may be wondering which lane he will "probably" shoot for , is too lazy to consider slowing, and the guess is wrong, and bad things happen.

I guess a lot depends on how far into the turn the trucker got before being hit as to who would get charged with what. If the trucker had gotten so far as to be straightened out in the lane and maintaining that lane then the car rear-ended him, that would amount to a ticket/fault assigned to the car driver potentially.