Seatbelts Should Be Mandatory
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Why the hell was that being filmed?
Yeah, this is one of those times when no invention known to mankind save the ejector seat could have helped that driver.
Yeah, this is one of those times when no invention known to mankind save the ejector seat could have helped that driver.
Wow. I would like to see what happened to the truck after. It was still moving pretty good and starting to go sideways.
Edit: watching a few more times, looks like an epic save by the car behind the truck.
Edit: watching a few more times, looks like an epic save by the car behind the truck.
Am I the only one that noticed the lack of an elevated divider and/or grassy ditch median between the opposing lanes?
Those are standard in the US on interstates and had one been erected wherever this is, it never would have happened.
Instead of seatbelts being mandatory, maybe the country this was filmed in should implement those.
TL;DR: Divider wall/cable/grassy ditch > seatbelts.
edit: jenzkc beat me to it.
Those are standard in the US on interstates and had one been erected wherever this is, it never would have happened.
Instead of seatbelts being mandatory, maybe the country this was filmed in should implement those.
TL;DR: Divider wall/cable/grassy ditch > seatbelts.
edit: jenzkc beat me to it.
Fuck. 18 wheelers always scare the ever living shit out of me. I've always wondered why we use 18-wheeler semi's to move our goods anyway. 2-3 smaller light weight trucks could pull the same load.
They wouldn't be as dangerous on the road, probably better on fuel consumption, wouldn't pollute nearly as much and cheaper on maintenance. Sure you have to pay 3 drivers but I think you'd make that cost back in fuel and maintenance alone, and any asshole with a class-C license could drive 'em as apposed to needing a commercial, truck drivers license, so you could pay the drivers less.
I understand some loads have to be carried by 18 wheeler because of size or weight, but why the hell are stores like target, walmart, etc ... not using lots of smaller trucks instead of one giant, road destroying, car atomizing monster truck that gets 4mpg?
They wouldn't be as dangerous on the road, probably better on fuel consumption, wouldn't pollute nearly as much and cheaper on maintenance. Sure you have to pay 3 drivers but I think you'd make that cost back in fuel and maintenance alone, and any asshole with a class-C license could drive 'em as apposed to needing a commercial, truck drivers license, so you could pay the drivers less.
I understand some loads have to be carried by 18 wheeler because of size or weight, but why the hell are stores like target, walmart, etc ... not using lots of smaller trucks instead of one giant, road destroying, car atomizing monster truck that gets 4mpg?
Don't you think if something more efficient than a 18 wheeler was available that it would be out there?
Some services use F350 pickup trucks with tractor trailer-style trailers but they are rarely as efficient as a traditional 18 wheeler. The logistics industry in the US is one of the fastest growing, well funded fields. Believe me, if there was a much better way of doing it they would be. For some large enterprises, a 1% reduction in costs results in millions of dollars saved.
I hate them too. Most of the drivers are fucking numbnuts as well.
I'm not typically much of a snobby dick IRL (believe it or not) but I will admit to a certain amount of disdain for people in certain occupations including truck drivers, tow truck drivers, cab drivers, parking "authority", and coffee baristas.
Sure, those people are needed and if someone needs to do one of those jobs to get by for a while, that's fine. But making a career out of any of them just shows a lack of trying, IMO and I just can't respect that person.
/off-topic rant
Sometimes logistics don't consider certain factors. 18 wheelers piss me off, and they pretty much piss off every one else too. They're big, scary, polluting, loud, and downright dangerous sharing a road with a fucking teenage girl driving a Honda Civic.
Every time a Target, or Walmart, or Home Depot truck comes barreling down on my rear end it pisses me off. Every time they're doing 45 in the passing lane it pisses me off. Every time one chunks a meteor size rock at the front end of my car, it pisses me off. Every time I hit a tire tread left in the roadway it pisses me off. Every time I'm coming up on a stale green light with a truck in front of me so I can't see if it's turning yellow or not it pisses me off.
It pisses me off because it's totally unsafe. It literally puts my life in danger, and personally it gives me a negative view of the giant fucking brand painted on the side of the trailer as well. At the very least trucks need their own lane or roadway system.
Obviously the truck driver was wearing his seat belt.
/srs
This isn't the fault of the truck driver, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If the driver didn't hit the truck, he would've gone off road and hit the trees. This just goes to show the bias against truck drivers; even when you have video proof it's not their fault, everyone piles on with the fuck trucks and truck drivers.
/srs
This isn't the fault of the truck driver, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If the driver didn't hit the truck, he would've gone off road and hit the trees. This just goes to show the bias against truck drivers; even when you have video proof it's not their fault, everyone piles on with the fuck trucks and truck drivers.
Sweet! YouTube is turning into LiveLeak.
Dude got into the slushy bit in the median and lost it. One wrong overcorrection and that was it. There have been a few movies like this in recent years. The two that immediately come to mind are the ones with the kids riding in the small pickup being chased by the police after having stolen a ride on lawnmower. They run a red light at a highway crossing and get t-boned by a long nose Kenworth and their pickup is turned into a sheet of tinfoil wrapped around the nose of the truck. The other is of a Nissan pathfinder, or similar, that turns a corner from a side street onto a highway in the snow and spins out crossing the median and gets broadsided by a Greyhound bus. Same result.
Dude got into the slushy bit in the median and lost it. One wrong overcorrection and that was it. There have been a few movies like this in recent years. The two that immediately come to mind are the ones with the kids riding in the small pickup being chased by the police after having stolen a ride on lawnmower. They run a red light at a highway crossing and get t-boned by a long nose Kenworth and their pickup is turned into a sheet of tinfoil wrapped around the nose of the truck. The other is of a Nissan pathfinder, or similar, that turns a corner from a side street onto a highway in the snow and spins out crossing the median and gets broadsided by a Greyhound bus. Same result.
I don't think anyone is saying anything about this particular truck driver in the video. The only fault in this video is the lack of a divider.
This accident was unavoidable for the truck driver, considering the road conditions I'm surprised they were traveling that fast. Regardless I'm not blaming the truck driver. If that had been another car smashing into the SUV instead of that Semi it probably would have been a bad accident but I'm willing to bet they would have survived it. It's obvious in that video no one in the SUV survived. It was vaporized instantly because 30 tons of monster truck slammed into it at 50mph. I'm sure the truck driver was fine and walked away with barely a scratch.
Speed kills. Especially in degraded road conditions. Most of the time nothing happens. Sometimes it does. Yep a guard rail for sure would have prevented the lane cross over.
