Semi T-bones junior hockey team. 14 dead.

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    Yeah I saw that. I understand the latitude is much farther north than here and the sun will be lower in the sky but I doubt if that sun in eyes defense will hold up.

    Everyone has a pretty good idea which driver bears most of the blame here. The only question that remains is if he gets jail time. Anything is possible. The Wal-Mart driver avoided jail. A local dump truck driver here was acquitted of dangerous driving causing death and they had his text records and he still walked (rightfully so IMO). Neither one of those cases was so blatantly obvious as this one though and not as many fatalities either

    If this doesn’t get truck drivers off the phone nothing will
     
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    Accident happened about 17:00, sun didn’t set that day until close to 19:45. Road runs perfectly east-west, so stop sign wasn’t obscured by sun. But it could have been hitting him from the top of either his side window or top left of the windshield.
    However I do have a new theory. Craziest thing I’ve seen. Saw a truck this past week with the sun about the same position, driver pulled his curtain around to block the side window, mirror and about a third of his left side windshield. But figured this guy could only see his half of the highway. I caught it on my dash cam and sent it to the company he drove for.
    If the driver of the truck in the crash was doing something like this, he still would have seen the stop sign. But would have no clue about the bus coming until he actually got hit.
     
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    Im not reading through 16 pages to check and see if my theory was already discussed, but looking at all the overhead crash photos, the Truck did not TBone the bus....the bus TBoned the Truck.

    Granted, the truck pulled out in front of him, but the way the debris field was layed out and where the bus and truck ended up....the bus TBoned the truck that was already in the intersection, Trucker appears to have pulled out.
     
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    Correct. Pulled out or more likely didn’t stop at all.
     
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    Yes you are correct. My initial headline of this post was taken from the early news media headlines. Which at the time were taken as the sun was setting on the scene and the only photo available at that time was from a passing vehicle which did not give enough perspective of the scene.
     
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    I read the paralyzed kid......Ryan I think..... moved his toes a couple days ago
     
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    That's all well and good. And I'm glad somebody stayed in school but why don't we pull the data from the truck and perhaps ask the truck driver what occurred. It was my understanding the truck driver was very remorseful and forthcoming following the crash.

    But in my mind, if the truck blew through in excess of 100 kmh, the heavy truck would have came to a rest further west then it did ... but I skipped out of more than a few days of school and may well have been absent that day and will have to defer to this individual's credentials.
     
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    Yes it is just an amateur interpretation using a lot of assumed data. Certainly the experts will have more accurate results.
     
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