Mount Pleasant,TX-5 Dead

Well, another option is, come to a stop and you and your passengers exit the vehicle to a safer place until there is significant traffic accumulated behind you as a buffer.

1. Can't everybody park on the shoulder
2. Parking on the shoulder hinders emergency response
3. If somebody is late to realize the situation, their shoulder escape ramp is now gone, too

 

Because of social media and the internet. Truck accidents have been decreasing since the 1980’s.

 

I’m calling ######## on that. Can’t hardly ride down the interstate ten miles without seeing some truck tracks in the median. I-57 in Illinois has a ridiculous amount of tracks off the road.

 

Goto page 14 of this trend report.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmc...tics/Large-Truck-and-Bus-Crash-Facts-2015.pdf

This is from 2015 but I will try to find a more current report if needed.

There’s LESS accidents today than there were in 1980 WITH five times as much traffic.

 

I agree, 100% avoidable! A good friend of mine died on that same stretch of highway last year. EXACT same scenario, about two hours prior a pickup truck slammed into a fuel tanker that was stopped due to a work zone killing the pickup driver. Well traffic backed up for miles and here comes my buddy. He realized at that last minute and swerved right, severing a UHAUL towed trailer in half. Thank God nobody was killed there. They speculate that he had suffered a massive head injury and the whole situation made him, for some reason, walk across the median where he was struck and killed by a westbound truck.

http://txktoday.com/news/pedestrian-hit-and-killed-on-interstate-30/

Just an odd situation, this guy was a BY THE BOOK driver. Amazing how fast it can all end.

That Mesilla Valley truck in this wreck that this topic is about was absolutely destroyed. Looked like it made it halfway under the length of the truck it struck. Good lord people....gotta pay attention!

 

I don’t care what the report says. I never saw, with my own eyes, nearly as many truck accidents 30 years ago as I have in the last couple of years. The data is flawed.