3 dead after semi attempts U-turn on turnpike

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  1. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    At the 5:26 the Yahoo! in the passenger seat of the truck is standing there videotaping them trying to extract the people from the car under the trailer with his cell phone with no regard for anything else… It just shows you the attitude and Demeanor by these losers
     
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  3. mjd4277

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  4. drvrtech77

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    as they should have… Any company that hires idiots that do stuff like this should have consequences… I bet if they dig deep enough, this isn’t the first time this company has been involved in something like this
     
  5. Getsinyourblood

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  6. MACK E-6

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    Before the self-appointed TTR u-turn police gets their noses all out of joint citing THEIR company policy like it’s congressionally passed black letter law, there is a huge difference between a u-turn on this highway which I do all the time…
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    …and trying it here on the Florida Turnpike like ####stain and company did with the speed limit 15 mph higher, narrower median, and no turn lane, not to mention the signs clearly present prohibiting it.

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  7. Lonwolv54

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    I guess the authorities are giving these guys time to flee the country so as not to deter the funnel of illegal foreign drivers flooding the country. That guy had zero remorse in his eyes, he looked like he was planning his getaway..he had the rat stare lol ..
    Did they go 10-15 with this guy yet?? What a joke!!
     
  8. Judge

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    I know a guy who got ran over by a John Deere, was working on it and pressed clutch in by hand on ground and it started. He held it and tried to get out of way and when he released clutch it was in gear and ran him over, he’d have survived the mashed into sand part, until the disk came along behind the tractor. of course this was 30 years ago.
     
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  9. wore out

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    I knew the same guy I’ll bet you.

    I was working in Shoffner on a tractor the morning that boys shirt got caught in the power unit drive line. He lost an arm and a leg but survived I won’t say he was lucky.
     
  10. Judge

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    This put rising fast out of Batesville AR out of business back in the 88s, wasn’t cause a young driver, or gps, just stupid people out here.
    this was back when it was still chauffeur license. back in 86 a driver made u turn on i40 and got hit by a bus.
    Eldridge v. Waugh, 198 B.R. 545 (E.D. Ark. 1995)
     
  11. tarmadilo

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    I only have two comments:

    No GPS would ever tell you to make a u-turn across the median.

    And I’m amazed that the driver facing camera footage leaked!
     
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