Hit a car stopped in hammer lane

Biggest crook out there, besides Saul Goodman

 

Yes, as much as we would all love to see the video, you need to do this.

Cops will always cite you, easier for them, big truck always at fault, guilty until proven innocent cuz you're a professional driver

 

Too fast for conditions! That's classic. That applies to everybody except state troopers and cops. when they do the same thing it's just an accident. they never received a ticket, even though they're considered professional drivers not unlike ourselves. Double standards you got to love it.

 

So it is raining and you are in the hammer lane and going around what sounds to be a fairly tight curve at around 60. With only a few seconds to respond to anything in front of you, it had to be fairly tight.

Someone is stopped in your lane and there is traffic next you so you can not move over.

Someone else is said to have hydroplaned and that is why the car in your lane stopped, but you say it is a lie.


Let's take that last point first.
Why are you so certain that someone did not hydroplane, and thus cause the person behind them to stop?
That makes no sense to me, because you did not see it.

It is raining, and probably pretty hard, if someone had hydroplaned. Yet you are in a big truck, in the hammer lane passing people. Else you would not have been in the hammer lane.
It seems obvious that the people around you thought a slower speed was appropriate.

You came around a curve going too fast for your sight distance to respond safely to anything that happened, so you were driving too fast for the conditions.


Your fault. You were impatient and reckless.
Pay for a lawyer if you want, but I doubt the outcome will be any different.

You 'might' change my mind if you post that video.

 

I don’t make the laws

 

What about the laws designating a minimum speed limit on the interstate or prohibiting obstructing the travel lanes? If you're going to cite the truck with a BS catch-all violation, why not also cite the car with the obvious violations of the law?

 

Just curious I don't know the law. But isn't there a law about not doing something stupid that causes a crash like stopping in the middle of an interstate for no apparent reason?

 

The minimum speed or obstruction does not pertain to slowing or stopping because of a hazard.
Get real.

Driving too fast for conditions is very simple.
If you can not respond to changing conditions quickly enough, you are driving too fast.

 

As others have mentioned, lawyer up good. From what it looks like, you were driving too fast for conditions, did not have enough following distance, and were not paying close attention to respond promptly to the stopped traffic after the curve.

If lawyers dig deep into a CDL handbook, they may find that the recommendation is for trucks to slow down before entering curves or hills due to view obstruction. Sure, nobody does it in real life. The other point lawyers may find is that the recommendation is to drive according to your view distance. For example, at night time we should only be driving based on how far our headlight illuminate. In rainy conditions, it’s based on the distance you see. A lot of times this means driving slower to be able to stop fully if there is an immediate slowdown ahead.