Driver Charged With Hit & Run Caught On Surveillance Camera

Governor Cuomo Signs Law Requiring Convex Mirrors On Large Trucks
the governor of my state signed a law in 2011 requiring convex mirrors on large trucks because it was such a problem in NYC.

 

Maybe I’m seeing things but it looks like the car brakes when he started pushing it. Why? If a truck hit my rear at a stop light and it turned green I’d floor it and try not to be run over. Who knows what the situation was a mile or two before this intersection? Was this car harassing the driver?
Shame we only have a traffic cam that gives a small part of the story. So let’s make sure we hang the guy without knowing the full story... I mean the way things are in today’s world it’s not innocent until proven guilty right? That’s old school/old law stuff....

 

Maybe was stoned and missed it.

 

You should also consider that this driver grows his hair on the side of his head to cover his baldness. And that is how one seemingly inconsequential decision can metastasize into much poorer decisions.

 

But you can FEEL the resistance from an object in front of your tractor from a dead stop.

If you can't, then you ought not be driving a big rig.

 

Looks like the truck driver is in the wrong lane if he was really making a turn.

 

No matter how you slice it, accidental or on purpose, the driver was in the wrong. But cars ####ing around at a light, not paying attention is faaaar more annoying than this one trucker.

 

i ride that way everyday. but i know my 5 sides of my unit.

 

What kind of parent lets their four year old ride a tricycle anywhere near a huge truck?
that has the engine running ??

 

He was swinging out to the second turn lane to make a U turn.

it’s possible he didn’t see the car but I’d bet money if we saw a longer clip of the video , the car was there before he pulled up . If that was the case there is no excuse to hit it .

For years I drove a Ford LTL 9000

it has the largest, widest and tallest hood of any big truck. The hood is level , I often took naps on it if the weather was nice and I was waiting somewhere .

I didn’t have the convex crosswalk mirror and never hit anything with it.

although I always blipped the throttle before I started letting the clutch out , just in case there was anyone standing there that I couldn’t see .