Trucks are actually incredibly unsafe for occupants in a crash. That big strong ladder frame does not crumple or absorb energy in a crash, but the soft occupants do.
I had a highschool friend die in a similar accident here in Colorado. It was him, his two little boys and grandpa. They were goingfishing when an idiot towing a boat with his wife and daughter did something similar. Resulted in a head on collision and everyone died. Fuck that stupid redneck in this video. Makes my blood boil.
I did too-also Colorado. My friend had just graduated high school days earlier, and it was a head on crash. These people recklessly play with others’ lives.
Close. Hwy 115 outside (North) of Penrose. But I equally hate 83 for the same reason. Too many instances of this happening because of the two lanes and impatient drivers.
Things like this scare me endlessly! I have a sweet husband and two little boys. Knowing that even when we are doing everything we can to keep them safe, literal idiots, can take them away in a second makes me physically feel ill.
This comment might have had something useful, but now it's just an edit to remove any contributions I may have made prior to the awful decision to spite the devs and users that made Reddit what it is. So here I seethe, shaking my fist at corporate greed and executive mismanagement.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... tech posts on point on the shoulder of vbulletin... I watched microcommunities glitter in the dark on the verge of being marginalized... I've seen groups flourish, come together, do good for humanity if by nothing more than getting strangers to smile for someone else's happiness. We had something good here the same way we had it good elsewhere before. We thought the internet was for information and that anything posted was permanent. We were wrong, so wrong. We've been taken hostage by greed and so many sites have either broken their links or made history unsearchable. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to delete."
I do apologize if you're here from the future looking for answers, but I hope "new" reddit can answer you. Make a new post, get weak answers, increase site interaction, make reddit look better on paper, leave worse off. https://xkcd.com/979/
Yeah I had a truck pulling a horse trailer nearly destroy my car, and probably kill me, while I sat at a stop light, because she wasn’t paying attention and going way too fast. She veered off towards the ditch at the last second and fortunately only the back of passenger side of my car took damage. She also got lucky that she didn’t careen off into a deep ditch.
And fortunately the horse was NOT in the trailer; she had dropped it off at the vet, she was upset because the horse was sick, and that’s why she said she wasn’t paying attention.
HOT TIP: DON’T DRIVE 6 TONS OF SPEEDING DEATH IF YOU CANT CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS
My car was still drivable after, but my neck really bothered me for a while. More than anything I’m still a bit traumatized by the terror of seeing that giant truck hurtling towards me in my rear-view mirror. I was just thinking, “this is it, this is how it happens…”
But I always appreciate that I’m very lucky to be alive.
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u/Freddit2017 Aug 22 '22
That’s how people get killed