2 dead, child airlifted after car rear ends truck parked on shoulder of ramp

Canada needs to build more Truck Parking space off the main roads, highways, expressways, that way the big rigs can get completely off the roads. This is going to keep happening because people get distracted while driving, take chances, use phones, adjust seats, the children in the backseat can be a distraction, on and on and on.

 

That car must have been flying. I saw another photo, looked like it was lodged under the trailer pretty good.

 

People are too distracted.

 

Pre COVID they were ticketing everyone on onroute off ramps & on ramps.. out of hours they didn’t care move it or get towed. A co worker loaded at a customer who took 7 hours and parked on the on ramp behind 10 others at 3 am he was woken and told that.

 

Good about the child surviving.
Sad if the 2 dead are the parents.

How can anyone hit that parked truck. Plenty of sunlight at 7am.
They really had to be distracted.

 

Many people on that stretch wind it up to 140 km/hr 90 mph to pass vehicles especially trucks exiting then dive bomb the ramp hard on the brakes.PS child is lucky it was a 4 axle trailer and not a tandem the rear axle prevented the car from going further under the trailer.

 

How do you know it wasn't a suicide?

 

I rarely see cars move over when there is truck on shoulder. Someone looks down for a second while driving and that’s all it takes to swerve little bit

 

If you find another picture of this accident you'll see it should never had happened. The truck was on an off ramp but well into the service plaza. Not even close to the highway travel lanes. The ramp is posted 20km/h where the car struck the parked truck. It's a tragedy the toddler lost his/her parents but it looks very avoidabke from the pictures I've seen of it.