The Price Of Road Rage:$26 Million Dollars

You would be surprised the amount of people in fatalities still drive not just cdl holders

 

Conclusion:the lawyer is the only winner.

 

Yeah, OK.

While Decou was attempting to pass the RV, Hogaboom honked his horn and sped up, refusing Decou to pass him or even return to the westbound lane all four vehicles were traveling on. Even when Decou slowed down to retreat behind the RV, so did Hogaboom. This game of cat and mouse continued, effectively leaving Decou in the eastbound lane while traveling westward.

 

90 miles of non stop road rage is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. Both were professional drivers supposedly.

I'm guessing the Smoot driver was speed limited to about the same speed the Horizon driver was going.
The horizon driver could have slowed down for a min as it seems he was in no hurry or time constraint.

Not sure which direction they where traveling but that US 20 is one desolate stretch of road 260 miles long from Bend, to Ontario, OR.
Taken at night it is very eerie.

 

Google Maps


...Barnes said he was near Mountain Home, Idaho, when he had the first “run-in” with a motorhome driver who cut him off on the freeway and slammed on the brakes to shoot for an exit.

Jonathan Hogaboom of Taylor, Michigan, was driving the 45-foot long, $750,000 luxury motorhome for Horizon Transport from Indiana for delivery in Oregon. Hogaboom and the three truckers met up again on Highway 20 in Eastern Oregon.

The truckers and Hogaboom raced to pass each other, cut each other off, and pulled in front of each other only to slam on the brakes. Hogaboom on more than one occasion blasted the big RV’s air horn when he was next to one of the semis and flipped the bird to one driver...

...Barnes was in the lead, about a minute-and-half ahead of the rest. Hogaboom in the RV was behind him. Decou was in the third spot, and Frew brought up the rear. Decou earlier tried to pass the RV. Barnes got on his radio and said an eastbound car just drove by him and it was safe to pass. Decou pulled out at the edge of a passing zone to make his move.

Within a moment he was driving in a no passing zone and had maybe 90 seconds to get back in the lane. Hogaboom did not let that happen. Decou told Oregon State Police when he hit the gas, Hogaboom punched it as well. He said he tried to get over two or three times, but the RV blocked him out. The state trooper asked him why he didn’t slow down and get back in the correct lane.

“Because the more I slowed down, the more he slowed down.” Decou replied.

Hogaboom claimed he was going about 60-65 behind a small BMW car, according to a police reports and court documents, and coming into a curve the car slowed and he had to slow to make the curve. That’s when he saw the semi trying to pass.

Hogaboom said he was irritated and had to slow down further. Near milepost 156, he saw the car coming in the other lane. The car Sara Allison was driving.

He said he jammed on the brakes to get space with the BMW, and the BMW did the same thing, leaving no room for the semi...

Eastern Oregon road rage case ends with $26.5 million verdict

 

Sounds like a good time to find a pull off (even a farmers feed lot) and take a 15 minute break. I know I've had to do that before when other traffic just refuses to get on with life.