Posted by NCWayne on January 25, 2014 at 15:20:02 from (173.188.169.54):
Didn"t want to hijack the thread below about the dash cams and those that said they thought they were a good idea, but here"s a story told to my buddy the other day by a trucker. Based on what I was told one of the drivers for his company was fired awhile back after being hit by a drunk driver that ran a red light. What happened was that the drunk"s lawyer got a warrant for the electronic records related to the operation of the truck. In turn he discovered that the driver had been going 5 MPH over the speed limit at some point in time, even though he was under the speed limit when hit. Based on that information he put forth the fact that had the driver not been speeding he wouldn"t have been in the intersection when his client ran the red light. The end result was that the drunk got charged with drunk driving, etc, as should have happened. Unfortunately,the fault for the accident was placed on the truck driver, because his prior speeding did, in fact, contribute to him being in the intersection at the exact time the drunk ran the light. Had he not sped he wouldn"t have been there yet, so the accident wouldn"t have happened....at least not to him. The end result was that the truck driver got charged for causing the accident and as a result lost his job.
In the end I"d much rather stick with my older vehicles, without GPS or any of the other fancy gadgets that will tell anyone who cares to look anything about me I don"t want them to know...The way I see it we spend good money to send the police officers to training to reconstruct an accident based on the evidence, and witnesses to the event....So why should I make it any easier on them, or give them evidence of anything that was done prior to the accident that has even the slightest chance of putting the finger on me for someone elses stupid actions?
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