ACCIDENTS: What are the top causes?

Not only is it dangerous... But I also do believe that it illegal to stop on rail road tracks.

I wasn't there. So it is nearly impossible for me to judge the actions of the driver.

But I do have some questions... What time of night was it? How was the traffic situation?

I've whipped u-turns just the same as you mentioned. Late at night, light traffic, I'd say there was nothing wrong with his turn.

 

My bold.

If "all the other traffic" was paying attention, like you were, it wouldn't be a hazard. Therefore, I would have to vote for inattention as a leading cause of accidents.

Minimum speed limit in New Mexico is, I believe, 45 mph. Median speed limit is 60 mph, driver's doing 62. Sounds about right to me. And I agree with the stress level of driving at higher speeds. I have found myself at the top of my 72mph most of the time since e-logs were installed in my truck. And I am much more tired and grumpy at the end of the day now than I was before.

 

Complacency,complacency,complacency! "Thinking that this is easy now" inattention and letting yourself get complacent! Relax but never forget that you are responsible for 100,000s of company equipment and customer freight and you put your cdl on the line every moment of your day.Thats all................

 

Still kind of comes back to no driving faster than your vision allows, as far as complacent driving, or driving once you have zoned out, well you have to stop and get out once in a while and walk around, get the blood moving again.

You have to stay alert or someone is going to get hurt. The goals is we all get out alive and well... Be Safe...

 

It was like 9pm, and I was the only car on the road at the time, If it had been on a strait away or at some sort of an intersection that would be fine but not in a dark curve. If someone had come around the corner and not been paying attention they would have decapitated them selves with his trailer.


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With accidents involving a single CMV I would concur.

However accidents involving multiple vehicles I believe it is a result of leaving the basic tenets of the Smith System.

I would wager that a significant portion of wrecks started by a civilian could still be prevented if the operator of the CMV had been following those tenets Alas today you have many drivers and few operators As evidenced by the presumption that a road way should be clear of all traffic so as to let the driver disregard the basics, all roadways should be expected to end just out of sight.

 

"All the other traffic" should be in enough control of their vehicle to change lanes with no incident. If they are too close to observe and or notice the other trucks to the point they have to take evasive maneuvers they are out of control.

 

As already said ,haveing your head up your arse.

Though when i drive to work at 4:30 am it seems like there is a lot of sleepy people on the road.

 

I vote for not paying attention. That would include following too close, kind of hard to know what going on when all you can see is the back of the vehicle ahead of you. A whole lot of drivers seem to have complete faith in something I don't know about or they wouldn't follow so close.

Speed doesn't cause many accidents, it just causes them to be worse.

 

Someone said that a while back and it stuck with me for some reason. I've been paying more attention the past month or so and I noticed something that I found funny. Yeah, I end up passing the same trucks all day. I pass them up, stop, unload half my truck, go pass them again, offload the rest, go pass them again, get loaded, and go pass them yet again.