Yeah I saw that. I understand the latitude is much farther north than here and the sun will be lower in the sky but I doubt if that sun in eyes defense will hold up.
Everyone has a pretty good idea which driver bears most of the blame here. The only question that remains is if he gets jail time. Anything is possible. The Wal-Mart driver avoided jail. A local dump truck driver here was acquitted of dangerous driving causing death and they had his text records and he still walked (rightfully so IMO). Neither one of those cases was so blatantly obvious as this one though and not as many fatalities either
If this doesn’t get truck drivers off the phone nothing will
Semi T-bones junior hockey team. 14 dead.
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Accident happened about 17:00, sun didn’t set that day until close to 19:45. Road runs perfectly east-west, so stop sign wasn’t obscured by sun. But it could have been hitting him from the top of either his side window or top left of the windshield.
However I do have a new theory. Craziest thing I’ve seen. Saw a truck this past week with the sun about the same position, driver pulled his curtain around to block the side window, mirror and about a third of his left side windshield. But figured this guy could only see his half of the highway. I caught it on my dash cam and sent it to the company he drove for.
If the driver of the truck in the crash was doing something like this, he still would have seen the stop sign. But would have no clue about the bus coming until he actually got hit.tinytim and KANSAS TRANSIT Thank this. -
Im not reading through 16 pages to check and see if my theory was already discussed, but looking at all the overhead crash photos, the Truck did not TBone the bus....the bus TBoned the Truck.
Granted, the truck pulled out in front of him, but the way the debris field was layed out and where the bus and truck ended up....the bus TBoned the truck that was already in the intersection, Trucker appears to have pulled out.KANSAS TRANSIT Thanks this. -
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I read the paralyzed kid......Ryan I think..... moved his toes a couple days ago
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But in my mind, if the truck blew through in excess of 100 kmh, the heavy truck would have came to a rest further west then it did ... but I skipped out of more than a few days of school and may well have been absent that day and will have to defer to this individual's credentials. -
Yes it is just an amateur interpretation using a lot of assumed data. Certainly the experts will have more accurate results.
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