Walmart crashes into house

I have seen so many trucks accidents where the commercial driver is trying avoid a 4 wheeler in the wrong ... Usually this same scenario of entering a roadway in front of oncoming truck. The truck always takes evasive action to avoid hitting the car..... And sadly causes a loss of control of the big rig that then hits other buildings, vehicles, oncoming traffic or ends up in a ditch or off an overpass (about a year or so ago I posted pics of witnessing a belt trailer avoiding a car who turned left in front of him and nosed right thru guard rail and the weight pushed his day cab straight into the median..... Never heard whether the driver survived but it was bad in Idaho...)

I've come to a personal conclusion that I will always watch and prepare for that idiot turning in front of me and if they do I'll give it all the brakes and Jake I can..... But I'm not going to try and swerve to avoid them..... In every accident I review that "swerve" ends up being more dangerous to you and every other bystander or innocent building or vehicles than just hitting the car who cut the truck off. Another accident in Central Utah on US-6 the CDL Driver swerved to miss a car who failed to stop cutting him off.... His truck went into oncoming traffic, killed a couple people in oncoming car and also a ATV rider riding down the side of the road, as well as rolling his truck and 2 trailers..... How much less damage or loss of life might have happened by keeping the rig straight and just emergency braking even if he did strike the vehicle he was trying to avoid?...... I don't know but seems the better option after reviewing all the accidents where the truck attempted evasive maneuvers.

What do you guys think?

 

Man this is just like Publishers Clearing House coming to your door to tell you you've won.

 

I agree with you 100%. Do all you can to slow down, but DON’T SWERVE. Instinct is to swerve to avoid, but when you swerve the aftermath becomes your problem.

 

When i had that moron pull out infront of me for my wreck i didnt swerve. Just laid on the brakes and the jakes and hoped for the best. Simply not worth rolling your rig to try and avoid them and if i had swerved and lost control i would have gone into oncoming traffic and a bad situation would have become a worse one.

Trust me i STILL have nightmares of that mom pulling that baby out and it not crying for a minute. Bur even so, I have come to the conclusion if i had swerved and rolled into or onto oncoming it may and likely would not have been a few bruses and broken fingers. It would have been a closed casket funeral.

Swerveing is the worst #### thing you can do.

 

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Tell that to the one out of the KC DC that ran me off the road to make his exit a few weeks back.....

Also no its defo a walmart truck.



Been seeing a LOT of head diapers driving their actual rigs recently. Not just pulling but in the unform and everything.

 

Yeah, you're right. I deleted that but you beat me to it. No worries, #### happens.

 

Not to mention if you unfortunately hit them they can't just run away leaving you with a wrecked truck but they took off.......