Brake Check Accident.

Every 4 wheeler slowing down to get off their exit.

I should get a dash cam. For legal protection on those rare occasions: it could become a financial life saver.

 

I have another one for you, Chicago area.
I'm waiting to merge into on/off ramp traffic to avoid an accident on shoulder, from I 88 EB to I 355 NB. Even though my turn signal is on the cars are passing on right, so I wait. When it looked clear I moved over. That really pissed off the honda civic sitting next to me! I forced him to pass me on the shoulder, and I never seen him. So he was going to 'learn me good' and get in front not 20 feet, not 10 feet, but less than 7 feet, he gave me a taste of his anger.

At this point I still didn't see him, he never came into view above the hood. I felt a bump, checked my mirrors and wrote it off as mud (since I had just been stuck nearly to axles, in a construction site before) I ease back onto the accelerator and feel it again... WTF? I'm thinking something is wrong with the drive-train.

I pull off to the shoulder and this little crushed car came into view as I was stopping. The cars trunk was severely damaged. The fuel safety shut off, disabled his car, and on the second hit I pushed him up and over the ramp before realizing what had happened.

I was ticketed by state trooper, multiple appearances in court, and ultimately dropped. Then the insurance company starts calling... On and on for 4yrs. After all this BS, FIDO sounds reasonable. <---Thanks @blairandgretchen for the terminology! Please don't anyone take this to mean hit and runs are okay.

What this experience thought me, was keep a dash cam! Next don't call police to an accident scene with an irate driver, whom just had disregard for their own life(s) and everyone else on the road. Keep driving! Call the police, and report the incident/accident, then stop whether 1/2 mile or next get off (make them far enough away, they are not a threat). Your phone call will be recorded, and you will sound much more reasonable (in the circumstance) than the crash investigator will ever be able to pen to paper.

 

It didn't exactly help that you had the accident only a minute away from the state police barracks in Downers Grove,which is next to that interchange. Any accident near that area(DuPage County)is never a good thing-especially if it involves a semi.

 

If my old truck wasn't still cherry I always thought I'd like to put a big ol' I-beam or a C-channel for a bumper and weld some long pointy spikes on on it so I can keep what I hit!

 

My first wreck halted DC's Beltway at 7Am sharp in the north east near the Tabenacle. S's this is a set of S curves best described as a mixer at 45 mph, only everyone is rolling through if they are at all. But that morning we are working through it at 30 and I held fast to my lane.

Big ### chevy driven by the classic granny, Im not kidding... comes on the road 2 lanes to my right (We are dealing with 4 plus here) off ramp behind me. Makes it to my trailer right next then vanishes.

Right where I decided to get over one to the right. Guess what.. she was on my front axle.

I brought her across my bumper and held her there sideways while making the stop. 40 dollar ticket failure to maintain lane, phone call to boss, sued later in court, letter to judge and that's that. It wont be the last time.

Let me tell you something, it's mazing how fast fire and police arrived from two zones at least a couple miles to either side of me. Westbound was already stopped so that did not matter.

And the only reason I saw that granny come off ramp? I was tabulating and mentally measuring 24 cars in three lanes, mine and to my right front, side and rear for about a mile for plotting the lane change.

 

You cant. That's why dash cams have become so prevalent.

 

HA. Buy the #### dash cam the best you can afford. Quality speaks in a few moments in court more than a stack of he said she said. I will be.

If you ever want dash cam school you tube heavy truck russia. Those people love to get into it with the road rage we would call agg assault in the USA etc.

 

But it wasn't the 80s. You said yourself you was in a 2001 freightliner century. Well after the 80s.

 

Saw it happen once in Az. Truck was slow on the fast lane. Angry 4 wheeler finally got in front. Slowed the truck down to maybe 30 mph. I just stayed 200ft back with my 4 ways.

 

NYC is getting 70-80s bad again.