Hit a car stopped in hammer lane
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by missjhawk, Mar 9, 2019.
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Cops will always cite you, easier for them, big truck always at fault, guilty until proven innocent cuz you're a professional driversevenmph, mjd4277, snowlauncher and 4 others Thank this. -
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So it is raining and you are in the hammer lane and going around what sounds to be a fairly tight curve at around 60. With only a few seconds to respond to anything in front of you, it had to be fairly tight.
Someone is stopped in your lane and there is traffic next you so you can not move over.
Someone else is said to have hydroplaned and that is why the car in your lane stopped, but you say it is a lie.
Let's take that last point first.
Why are you so certain that someone did not hydroplane, and thus cause the person behind them to stop?
That makes no sense to me, because you did not see it.
It is raining, and probably pretty hard, if someone had hydroplaned. Yet you are in a big truck, in the hammer lane passing people. Else you would not have been in the hammer lane.
It seems obvious that the people around you thought a slower speed was appropriate.
You came around a curve going too fast for your sight distance to respond safely to anything that happened, so you were driving too fast for the conditions.
Your fault. You were impatient and reckless.
Pay for a lawyer if you want, but I doubt the outcome will be any different.
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Get real.
Driving too fast for conditions is very simple.
If you can not respond to changing conditions quickly enough, you are driving too fast.Last edited: Mar 10, 2019
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You can say with piece of mind when you have less than truck length to stop no matter how fast or slow you are going in the rain if you approach a stopped car you are going to slide furthermore I can't see around curves may be you can i can't anticipate a car stopping in 70mph zone for no reason I could see -
If lawyers dig deep into a CDL handbook, they may find that the recommendation is for trucks to slow down before entering curves or hills due to view obstruction. Sure, nobody does it in real life. The other point lawyers may find is that the recommendation is to drive according to your view distance. For example, at night time we should only be driving based on how far our headlight illuminate. In rainy conditions, it’s based on the distance you see. A lot of times this means driving slower to be able to stop fully if there is an immediate slowdown ahead.Tonythetruckerdude, roshea, snowlauncher and 3 others Thank this.
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