Bad weather took one more life in Utah by semi truck. Public got angry to the truckers.
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=43282542&nid=148&title=crash-on-icy-i-15-kills-clarkston-man
WILLARD, Box Elder County — A Cache County man was killed early Thursday when he lost control of his car and was hit twice by the same semitrailer and ended up underneath the truck.
Austin L. Taylor, 28, of Clarkston, was traveling south on I-15 about 5:20 a.m. when he lost control of his car on the icy road, spun off the road into the cable barrier, and then bounced back into traffic where he was broadsided by a FedEx semitrailer, according to Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Todd Royce.
The impact from that collision tossed the car into the concrete barrier, which in turn spun the car back into traffic where it ended up underneath the FedEx truck.
Public comments ......... may have seen the same report I saw. Europe has skirting that does stop cars from going under trucks from the side. A family in the US who lost a daughter to a similar crash is asking for regulations to require protective skirting to make it less likely a car would go under trucks.
Now they want trailer side bumpers
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by Snailexpress, Feb 24, 2017.
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That fellow whom has been asking for the bumpers is in for a long fight. Yet it still doesnt fix the idiots whom drive 4 wheelers and expect the truckers to keep them safe for their bad driving habits.
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They are very light and only designed to stop bicycles.Studebaker Hawk, baldguy, cnsper and 1 other person Thank this. -
i tell anyone who wants to complain about trucks if you dont wanna get run over by a fed ex truck dont use fed ex, thats probably the same kinda person who would complain that they didnt get their fed ex pkg on time, its the mentality of idiot america, ya know who dont have these problems, the amish, but who wants to be like those nut jobs, lets consume stuff and get run over by the trucks hauling all the crap we consume then complain about it lol talk about idiot america. its like drivers who complain about loud reefers in a truckstop, dont want loud reefers dont eat so much and they will go away lol i dont understand what people expect. its like talking about racing and safety, ya kno whats safe, not driving 200 mph inside of concrete walls lol talking about safety in trucking is like them talking about the superbowl before the game on tv, its just all talk and nobody has a clue whats gonna happen, just a whole lot of speculation and wasted time listening to someone talk about things and offer no solution. and i just offered a solution but its not what people want to hear, because we aint gonna go without in this country so on we go. i talk about living a simpler life and i get called dave ramsey, oh well good luck, maybe we should just make cars and trucks like bumper cars so we can all bounce off one another lol
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wouldnt a small light car bounce like a pin ball with 'side bumpers'? Did the cable guard rail fail, aren't they designed to absorb an impact?
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The light car was going TOO fast. Wouldnt it have been better if the idiot in the car took his foot off the accelerator and just SLOWED THE FRIK DOWN! Why do we the truckers have to be blamed because some idiot decided the best way to drive that four wheeler was to glue his foot to the floor?
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