I-75 crash near Gainesville leaves family of 5 dead

I live north of the G'ville area...wait...my wife lives in that area (and I get to visit her every other month or so)...she HATES to take the Interstate to Gainesville. She would rather take surface streets and hit 50 red lights than risk her life on there. And it's getting worse, they just built a Bass Pro Shop and put in several huge Walmart Supercenters...plus home games for the Gators only adds to the madness.

 

SUPERGLUE.

 

Don't blame hospital, if you just sold your truck to a guy and he crashed it and died you would want to get paid too.

 

I'll take the scar and bleed a little.

 

Well yes, if the truck didn't have his 4 ways on, if they determine he had been sitting on the shoulder for longer than 10 minutes with no triangles out, any dimwit lawyer will sue the driver and the company he was leased onto or drove for and will win easily.

 

So are you deliberately misconstruing what I said, or looking to start an argument?

 

When I pulled for Landstar, they had a rule that you had 10 min, after that, if you were seen (and reported) on the shoulder of the highway OR a ramp without your triangles out, your lease was terminated. Pretty simple to tell if the driver was doing the right thing in time...if it's sitting and no one is outside the vehicle either getting the triangles out, or out setting them up then they are busted. NO EXCUSES for stopping or parking on a shoulder of a traveled highway except for emergency breakdown, severe illness or something like a load strap/chain breaks and it is more dangerous to drive than secure it enough to get off the highway.

 

That's a good policy, most trucks park over the crest of a hill where you can't see them in time to move over a lane.
They want that extra gravity boost to save them fuel getting up to speed.

 

I didn't think about superglue. I tend to stay away fron it as I have had too many of the wrong things stuck together.

Re the crash: Does anybody recall what the 'moth effect' is? IMO it is the simple answer to a deadly consequence.