comedian Tracy Morgan hurt in bus/truck crash

Definitely not. If the SL there is 55 mph (80.6 fps) you were following too closely. 200 / 80.6 = 2.48 seconds following distance, fewer than the recommended 4 seconds for 4-wheelers.

I've yet to see 1 driving video that wouldn't hang the complainant of the driving of others who apparently believes no one will notice their less than stellar driving choices, and I've seen a lot of them.

Not 1. Never. And I never expect to.

 

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...-crash-injured-tracy-morgan/story?id=24039407 (Saturday)

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...organ-crash-hadn-slept-cops-article-1.1822532 (Monday)
Considering it's the prosecutor making the allegation, I'll make the leap of faith to believe he has some kind of evidence to support his claim. Lawyers like evidence, and all.

 

Prosecutors and judges are some of the biggest
crooks on the planet. They send innocent people
to prison all the time.

 

If Morgan's van was speeding then the van shouldn't have been there which would have prevented the accident and unnecessary deaths. This is the standard held to truck drivers who violate HOS. My point is to hold everyone accountable to that same standard as the rule of law must prevail in order for there to be justice for all.

 

Well, looks like status quo vis a vis modern journalism. The facts in various stories conflict and we seem to be looking at a tree instead of the forest. Yes, after I posted I did a google news search and saw that there were references to the criminal complaint. Hopefully there will be a good bit of journalism in the near future to start making real sense of this incident.

So far the news media have noted recent attempts by the US Senate to "roll back" hours of service requirements, but none of them really get into the actual facts of the case. I certainly hope that the asinine 1 am to 5 am and 168 hour requirements of a 34 hour restart are abolished. It is ridiculous to congest our highways with truckers at 5 am, during rush hour. It is also ridiculous that we can't take a 34 hour rest more than once every 168 hours. Both of those rules that were being withdrawn by the Senate committee action would contribute to better rest and ease highway congestion. NONE of that change would have impacted this accident in any way, and I feel that the current rules contribute to driver fatigue rather than reduce it.

 

so i read 2 articles, one said the driver of the limo was hit and lost control, the other said the driver stopped and was hit lol i hate the media

 

I just grabbed the first article that mentioned the 24 hour claim, sorry for the assumption you read the same one (especially when you mentioned NBC in your post).

 

I understand your view, but...

Either way the limo was hit. As far as insurance liability and the courts in America, the one who did the hitting( in this instance, the truck ) and what looks to be squarely from behind. The truck is at fault. Ok, fair enough.

Where they lost me is how is this truck driver a criminal and treated as such for being in an accident ? And they were talking of bringing charges long before he supposedly admitted to having not slept in 24 hours. Unless he admitted that at the scene.

Who knows. We will have to just wait and see.

 

Considering police on the scene mentioned him dozing off prior to the accident in the initial article on the accident, he probably admitted as much during questioning by the responding officer.

 

http://www.tmz.com/2014/06/09/tracy-morgan-crash-tweet-move-or-get-hit-critical-condition-18-wheeler

The driver of the 18 wheeler who slammed into Tracy Morgan's limo Friday night was reportedly a road hog and proud of it, tweeting "Trying to win more than lose! Driving trucks for a living. It's my road. Move or get hit! #Walmart."


An idiot this driver was. Glad he's off the road. The above link shows a real tweet he sent out before the crash happened.