Was this preventable?

Hard to say. Did the SUV stop and offer any explanation? Did you or the SUV actually cross the center stripe while alongside the other? Had the road straightened out once you reached the location where the vehicle was on the shoulder or was it in the middle of a long, shallow curve area of the Interstate?

 

You should have let the guy hit you. Instead you hit a vehicle parked on the Shoulder. Preventable YES.

The guy in the suv thanks you for saving his record and damaging your career.

 

You will be hit with a preventable. The only facts that can be confirmed is that you hit a stationary vehicle on the shoulder of the road. You never slowed down, although you clearly saw an "object" up ahead. Had you slowed down you may have been able to prevent this accident...either by having the SUV clear you and allowing you to get in the left lane, or even if he did cut you off, allowing you to stop safely.

Also you made an incorrect assumption...it was Saturday at 1am...somwhere in the back of your mind you have to consider this is prime hours for driving under the influence

 

I guess only you know the answer. Ask yourself .. knowing what you now know and having experienced the results of such a situation, if you ever find yourself in an identical situation, will you do/not do the same things and allow the situation to progress the same? If you answer "I'll do something different", then perhaps it is a preventable on you.

 

9 years doing this and you have to ask?
No paint ( from the SUV) no pictures ( dash cam).

You and the parked car in the middle of the night and the parked car gets hit by you.

All the details you have etched in your mind as to what really happened (?) don't mean squat. Again...

You and the parked car in the middle of the night and the parked car gets hit by you.

Preventable !

 

The truth is you acted instinctively to prevent an accident that could have ended with injuries or a possible death (depending on what may have happened if the SUV had struck the vehicle, and how the driver reacted).

The other truth is that you have no proof that the SUV even existed, and you struck a parked vehicle. So yes, you will get hit with a preventable accident through no fault of your own. You are a truck driver, you were within 25 miles of an accident, YOU are at fault. It sucks, but that is the world we live in. A world where no one takes responsibility for their own actions and happily screws over the other guy.

 

Well its about like the dodging the deer you have no proof that the SUV was there so you company going to look at it as it wasnt and depend on the company you may need to start job hunting but yes there was many ways to prevent it who's to say that had you stayed in your lane the SUV would have hit you. You ran off the road and hit a parked vehicle. What it there was a family in that parked vehicle and a drunk in the SUV kill the family to save the drunk and as you stated you saw something on the shoulder from a distance this should have told you to take cauction not just maintain and hope nothing happen

 

I have to disagree with that comment. Who was at the wheel? That parked car on the shoulder wouldn't have been hit had he not left his lane. Leaving his lane is what made the crash his fault....and therefore preventable.

 

What do you suppose prompted the phantom SUV to suddenly swerve in front of you and slow down?
You saw a mysterious object ahead.
An SUV begins to pass you.
You maintain speed anyway, yet you saw all the indicators of a potential problem.