Are you bring serious or telling a funny. I'm not sure. I'm glad the driver didn't roll. I look forward to these post to help me if I need it. But in full disclosed I laughed a little. Then I said crap hes being serious.
Kindly point me in the right direction of your post. Thank you
Close Call (Cable barrier to the rescue in gut-churning dash cam video)
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by chico9696, Jan 11, 2020.
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Wooly sheep. I bet there was some pants cleaning after that. That's my nightmare... a truck coming straight at me with nowhere to go. Without that cable barrier, he would have been straight through the trailer. All you can do is hope its mattress padding or little Debbie's snack cakes or something soft, and not like car parts. Wow, scary. Looks like they both survived it.
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Another case I know of, and the safety man, who is a friend of mine, at a trucking company investigated it.
Wreck on the interstate; trucks started stopping and backing up behind the wreck.
Drunk Army officer crashed into the line of trucks.
He suffered severe brain damage in the wreck.
Someone started taking pictures of all the trucks in front of the Army officers wreck.
Army officer is medically discharged with 100% disability and full benefits for life.
Sued all the trucking companies in front of the wreck.
In court, films of the Army officer were shown of him wearing a diaper and sitting on a blanket at home playing with toys. His father would take a toy away from him, and he would scream and cry until the toy was returned. That film swayed the jury to rule in his favor.
The truck he rear ended, that company had to pay him $20 million.
All the other trucking companies settled out of court.
The jury wasn't allowed to know he is receiving full military benefits and health care for life because at the time of the wreck, he was under orders transferring to a new duty station.
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Great now someone crashes into me I’m sued into oblivion.
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Copy of a post already done almmost a month ago.
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Well, the GPS showed he was doing 60, slowed to 45 then slowly started accelerating when the video stopped. Probably looked in the rear view and kept on going.
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Don't think that cable barrier stopped him, watch the video again. It maybe initallialy slowed em down, but didn't stop em. The trailer wheels digging in the snow as the truck was turned sideways did
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