New truck drivers should watch accident videos like this everyday

Since you guys are the professionals... would my assumption be correct in saying almost 80% of those crashes were due to people driving faster than reasonable and prudent? Would they other 20% be because people in 4-wheelers are dumb ####’s?

 

100% are due to people doing things they should know better than to do.

 

i wasn't talking about that, if you had read it, i was referring to it NOT being a road rage incident.

 

sorta like what i have to do in Southie, Boston, once in a while, like snow piles, bars open, and pop up construction sites.

 

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I never saw "Red Ashphalt" but I did see "Signal 30".

I got my drivers license in 1968 in Massachusetts. The second day of class the instructor showed us a movie produced by the Ohio State Patrol. (note, I just ate so I am not going to watch Red Asphalt" right now, I can guess what's in it.)

"Signal 30" showed a series of accidents where the events leading to the accident was played by actors, but after the reenactment they used real footage from State Patrol movie cameras in full color to show the aftermath. The worst one for me was the story of two young men who were on a long road trip. The passenger had fallen asleep, and then the driver. They rear ended a semi truck on the interstate. The real footage showed one of the skulls split open with brain matter on the highway. I headed straight for the can and threw up. I do not need to see any more accident films. That was 50 years ago and I still remember the scenes portrayed.

 

The guy who recorded posted it on youtube along with some still shots of the aftermath.

 

When I went through drivers ed, we watched films from the 40's which were very graphic, then ones produced in the 60's which were toned down.

By the way, some of us owners get to see a lot of these videos from other owners and what their stupid drivers do, the biggest issue is that they are not paying attention and running into things stopped.

And to give you an idea how mean I am, I review dash cam footage when there is an accident, I will back my driver with they can't avoid things but I won't when they cause an accident. One driver who was fired last week ran into a truck stopped in traffic, you could clearly see they were stopped and he was fiddling with something in the cab, you could hear on the cb someone saying it was stopped but he slammed into a flat bed and ruined the day for many that were involved.