ericlb said: (quoted from post at 09:49:41 01/18/14) another good friend of mine early this week, was going to a job in a dump truck with about a 6 or 8 year old jd dozer on his trailer, doing about 40 mph in a 55mph zone 4 lane winding road, come around a curve and found a guy lets say from south of here, way south, pulling a 8 horse trailer no lites turn signals, or brake lites turning right my friend locked her down and tried his best to miss the trailer, just clipped it a good one the horse traier disconnected and went in the ditch,on its side, the dump truck and trailer and dozer rolled, he totaled all 3 units probably a 150 to 175 thousand dollar loss at least! the horse trailer guy, no injuries, no english, and no insurance
my friend thankfully does have insurance lots of it but man!
He was doing 40 mph and locked her down.
Something does not add up.
The amount of damage done does not jive with an impact at 20-30 mph.
Unless he was day dreaming and didnt get on the brakes until it was way too late he would have scrubbed off some speed.
I am not defending anybody here but lights or no lights makes no difference if you are not paying attention, it could have been your family in a car that had just stalled due to a dead battery that he flattened instead.
Bottom line is it was his fault and hopefully this incident wakes him up before he kills someone.
All winter long there are vehicles are on the road with lights covered in snow that you cant see, sometimes cleaning them off every five minutes isn't even enough.
Guess who is at fault when you run into one of them.
This post was edited by Determined at 08:40:28 01/18/14.
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