Pay Close Attention To Exit Ramp Speeds

That's a interesting wreck.

I think he ran onto the ramp at or near highway speed and then realized no more ramp and he's about to go bye bye over the fields and yon. That heavy braking shows a total desire not to run off the pavement pretty much straight across. I don't think he thought about or had room to horse her in any direction to stay on that pavement. Once he hit that bank over he went. Shrugs.

We have some ramps like that here in Arkansas. You will hop off at a very reduced speed on one in particular, that one will roll you at 10 mph and only offers about two truck lengths to slow down on before hitting one of the service roads. The angles are bad enough that you will not be able to see who is coming on your right without stopping in sort of a J situation to look out your pax window to eyeball anyone coming on.

I find it interesting the trailer tandems became detached. I wonder if he rammed a 4 wheeler with it breaking the pins loose. And as we all know, those are mighty big pins to be busting.

 

I think it is plain nuts if some one cant slow down to use any road. Exit ramps or otherwise. It isnt that hard to take your foot off the pedal. If your on cruise a light tap of the brake pedal will disable cruise. Those side roads (when I was driving) I would slow to 40 and ignore the idiots that tried to make me go faster.

Guess that driver learned the hard way. Just hope they did it with a company truck. Expensive overhead if it is their own. Tho I do remember seeing a Werner on their side from trying to go down a clover leaf at freeway speeds.

 

I drive in Texas often. I absolutely hate the concept of frontage roads. Many exits you can gradually back out of freeway speed, but some have sharp turns that come up on you quick, with recommended speeds at 20 mph or lower. Often the signs posting the recommended speed are AT THE TURN.

 

texas is weird to me Lepton-

You either got these exit ramps that go onto these service roads which you have to virtually stop almost-OR- You have these mile Long Flyover ramps 100 feet in the sky 1 lane wide

Other than that...I Kinda liked Driving in Texas

 

Route 80 Blakeslee, Pennsylvania On ramp redesign is another "Winner of designs of stupidity" award.
They took a big eraser to everything there, when it was decided there was not enough merge area, and
instead of leaving the adequate sweep entering Rt. 80, they shortened the radius, making the turn
tighter, and necessitating you slowing more to make it, then used the newly found several hundred
feet to make the merge area. So now instead of momentum carrying you thru and onto Interstate, you need to power out of an unnecessarily tight turn. I am sure the Designer who drew this up never visited the site. It is slightly uphill and impossible to enter now at speed. Flashers only. Terrible re-design. Unsafe.
Traffic coming up to this onramp is climbing a gradual 1 mile incline, and has to move over creating chaos.
Would you not think it would be a simple matter of just extending merge area and leaving turn alone?
I thought the Interstate Highway System, been around since the 60's, had standards for these things?
Texas comments brought this to mind; all exits as uniform as the terrain allows should be a standard.
No surprises making room for human error.

 

You must be talking about exit 98 westbound on interstate 30?

 

That's a pretty short exit, I was thinking of the old James st exit off US 67 north, you got about 2 truck lengths before you must stop at the sign there on a 5 mph bend. It's construction now so I hope they change the geometry.

 

10-4 That ones a dousey too.

 

Something else that lots of drivers forget: those recommended speeds posted at the offramps, unless otherwise stated, are usually designed with CARS in mind. When the traffic engineers suggested 20 mph as a safe off-ramp speed they really weren't thinking about semis at all. That's why I usually hit the ramps at least 5 mph slower than what's posted on the signs.