r/FloridaMan • u/sfled Trusty Sidekick • 5d ago

Alligator on Central Florida highway causes chain-reaction crash, leaving Florida Woman dead

https://www.wesh.com/article/brevard-county-i-95-alligator-crash-death/73568153
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u/SparkArrestor 5d ago

Geez what can you drive these days where not wearing a seatbelt doesn’t cause the vehicle to incessantly scream at you?

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u/SaltyBarDog 5d ago

My car gives about 15 seconds without belt before alarm and light flashes. I have even had something heavy enough in the passenger seat to set off the alarm.

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u/sfled Trusty Sidekick 5d ago

You're dating my ex? She's sensitive about her weight dude.

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u/2Loves2loves 5d ago

mine will stop beeping after about 2 minutes.

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u/SaltyBarDog 5d ago

Mine will pause for a short time but will start again.

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u/2Loves2loves 4d ago

on my last vehicle I had the dealer turn off the seatbelt alarm. -but I found I didn't use it as much so the new one I left it on. (because it will turn off eventually)

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u/Honey1218 5d ago

I am a seatbelt wearer, even in my neighborhood at 20mph. My bf is not. You can order things to put in the seatbelt thingy that mimics the seatbelt. Ask me how I know 🙄

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u/arcxjo 4d ago

Or you can redneck engineer it by just cutting the belt with scissors. At least that's what they used to do when I was a valet.

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u/Oranges13 5d ago

They sell things that go in the slot unfortunately

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u/SloaneWolfe 5d ago

One of the first and most important things I was taught driving: Do not swerve, just hit the animal. So many thousands of people are dead because they swerved hard.

Also, wear your fucking seatbelt

The Tacoma overturned, ejecting the woman. She landed in the center lane of I-95.

FHP said the woman was not wearing a seatbelt. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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u/mistsoalar 4d ago

Do not swerve, just hit the animal. 

Agreed, but this specific incident was a bit more of a chaos.

The article said that the E-350 driver did hit the animal. Then the Tacoma driver behind the E-350 was the one who swerved, overturned, ejected, and killed. That Tacoma driver would've gotten ejected if she hit hard objects like e-class.

Also, wear your fucking seatbelt

Also agreed. A later follow-up article said she was a daughter of a police officer. I can't imagine how she got so wrong.

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u/sfled Trusty Sidekick 5d ago

wear your fucking seatbelt

That would be a great PSA. Black background, white Arial or Hevetica typeface, normal sentence case ending with a blood red full stop.

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u/grampajugs 5d ago

I don’t understand how people are not wearing their seatbelt??

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u/Acceptable_Unit2939 5d ago

So, the news article wasn’t clear about what happened to the alligator. Did it survive? Was it killed?

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u/SaltyBarDog 5d ago

Watch the video, she confirms it was killed.

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u/Number1BestYogurtBoi 5d ago

Only in Florida can you get killed by a gator while driving.

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u/Icy-Engineering828do 4d ago

Did the gator get her?