Turlock, CA. Hwy 99

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Has to be more to it than he fell asleep. Idk about you, but I'd wake up pretty darn fast the minute I left the roadway and I #### sure would be awake as I crashed THROUGH a concrete wall.

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Yes, tragic. Vanishing is right, there could be a lot of possible causes. It's fun to speculate, but do it lightly until your facts are available. How many will follow thru on that? Probably not many.

I prefer to speculate on the distracted driver cause, even as I openly admit I know nothing. It's always a good percentage guess, though. Sad about the driver and his loved one, not to mention the victims. CA99 is an old highway, very much developed all along those towns.

Good truck inspections, pre/post-trips, regular maintenance, and good safety equipment - tires and shocks, air bags, mirrors, all we can do to minimize equipment failure helps, a lot, but there's so much more to focus on once we're at the wheel. Like turning off your electronics in urban traffic, a very good one.

 

I don't either, Vanishing, but I do feel sorrow for their victims. I/we see drivers of all kinds using devices every day, all day, big rig drivers included. In the end, we'll all be victims of inconsiderate and foolish drivers, because it's the @$#hole drivers who make more rules necessary for all, even the drivers who are safe and trying hard to be responsible. More fools, more rules, more rules, more enforcement, - it's a bad cycle.

 

It's hard to tell from the angle of the picture, but it looks like, at least from the right side, that the cab is sound. If so, that may point to a medical emergency. The driver's passing may not have been caused by the accident, it may have caused the accident.

 

I was behind him, saw the cop put his rain coat over drivers body. No skid marks, drove thru chicken wire fence then block wall with car port behind wall.

I've been waiting for someone to hit that wall. It's to close to 99.