70 W near IN state line

I had to cut thru Richmond when they had that huge pileup on 70 last winter. I went up to I70 to get around the huge pileup on I74 West if Cincinnati. I should have taken US 50 over to Seymour!

 

I see Swift is there. I wonder what happened???? There is no such thing as too much following distance.

 

I can't help but think everybody was in the slow lane, the flatbed was stopped behind the stopped UPS truck and the Swift truck was heavy and at at least nearly full highway speed, while as close as 200 feet behind them (completely not looking forward in the moments before the crash). That's going to be a wicked dash cam clip to view out of the Swift truck and will no doubt appear in future Swift orientation safety segment meetings, as they explain why they must accept driver facing cameras and the immediate termination results of unauthorized distractions while driving.

That's my arm-chair crash analysis report.

It's sickening to have to see these types of major crashes happen at the frequency they happen. Dry road, late afternoon daylight conditions, no holiday or weekend traffic excesses, just stopped traffic [for whatever reason] and probably one driver doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing, at the worst possible time ... SMH

How the average motorist is not in abject fear while in the vicinity of a big truck is beyond me when you consider they see these crashes multiple times every year in person and in the news, knowing they must happen nationally, somewhere, every day. Why am I still out here exposing myself to this crap 10 hours a day, 7 days week, 28 days a month??? Do I have some sort of death wish or am I just an idiot with no ambition to do anything else?

 

Oh, Swift. *golf clap**shakes head* (I'm also not surprised to see UPS - more surprised it wasn't FedEx - in the fray.)

Glad I'm off of OTR. Sick of having a 97% chance of dying everyday because of some of these yahoos.

 

Coming to a dead stop on the interstate scares the bejesus out of me. When I begin to see traffic slowing, I hit those 4 ways and get on the radio.

 

I don't see how there's not at least 2 dead occupants.

 

The night is still young and the ER has to be very busy.

 

I wonder if the kingpin broke on the flatbed, or maybe the entire 5th wheel was ripped from the frame???