At least three dead and 15 hurt when semi rear-ends bus carrying students in Ohio

Are you asking a question? 90% of school bus drivers have never heard of HOS. School bus drivers, here in Va. mostly are housewives or retired individuals, who spent their life in a factory. They do not know a log from a 5th wheel. LOL

 

Report, body cam footage released from fatal I-70 charter bus crash

i hope charges will indeed be brought against the trucker.

says right there, he was "following too closely"

 

Not that I disagree, but in today's traffic, this could be said about 90% of accidents. Reminds me of getting pulled over in Connecticut one morning going into Hartford in rush hour traffic when it was bumper to bumper and this ######## cop pulls me over for "following too close". And I take this "finding" from the Ohio Dept. of Safety as a "coup out" . With that said, yes I blame the truck driver, but this "finding" does not point to what "trigger" the tragic accident.

 

thing is, if one is following "too closely" then there is a much higher % of an accident.

some states/LE, may even call that aggressive driving as well.

all we can do is "see" further reports

 

I wish that more drivers would get charged with that very thing. Drivers, and I include truck drivers and drivers of 4wheelers, they run up behind you and try to intimidate you by almost pushing you down the road. When that happens to me, I gradually slow down. If I was running the speed limit, I drop to 5 mph under. Far too many out there today have the attitude, "get out of my way, here I come". We see this more and more in "merging traffic".

 

The next few words of the sentence give it better context

trailing too closely in traffic and failed to slow down, hitting another vehicle before hitting the charter bus.

It is one thing to manage or not manage your "space cushion" as I used to teach as a Smith System instructor, difficult as people cut in front of you into your safe area.
It is completely another story simply to not drive your vehicle(or be distracted) and not slow down as traffic demands.

Clearly, they have the electronic readout from the ECM of the truck and can see he didn't apply the brakes before impact.

 

either way...the moron trucker lived, and others died.

i hope he does some very serious time.

 

This is a preliminary report from the NTSB which places blame directly on the semi truck driver.
This is not alleged, or there is a possibility of, or evidence points to some mechanical failure.
Unless some other evidence becomes known, which is unlikely, this will be the final finding.
All the interviews have been conducted, ECM's from the various vehicles (if they didn't get incinerated) have been examined, weather was ruled out immediately.

The article details the names of all of the individuals who perished in the crash.
Is it too much to ask the name of the driver who is directly responsible for those deaths? If for no other reason to make sure this one NEVER gets behind the wheel of a tractor trailer.