From: Harry K on
On Mar 26, 7:20 am, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm sure most of you have seen this:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBmE92n5mEI
>
> A similar collision occurred early this morning: a Trucker stalled in
> lanes on the SB 5. ~9 minutes later, a Droid comes flying along and
> rams right into the back of the stalled rig. The front half of the car
> was completely shredded beneath the trailer; the driver was killed
> instantly.
>
> http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-5-freeway-fatal-crash,0,66991.s...
>
> HTF do you not see these huge obstructions directly in front of you?
> --
> The MFFY Litmus Test:
> If your maneuver forces another driver WHO HAS THE RIGHT-OF-WAY
> to alter course or speed, what you did was probably MFFY.

Ummm...looking to see if you 'texted' correctly?

Washington state just woke up. The bill making hand held CP use a
primary infraction was signed yesterday. It, of course, will do no
good. What is needed is a circuit in every phone that makes it
inoperable except for 911 if moving over x mph.

Harry K
From: Brent on
On 2010-03-26, Harry K <turnkey4099(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> Washington state just woke up. The bill making hand held CP use a
> primary infraction was signed yesterday. It, of course, will do no
> good. What is needed is a circuit in every phone that makes it
> inoperable except for 911 if moving over x mph.

So the morons will find something else to do while driving.
American's need to learn that driving isn't something you do while doing
something else. The first step to teaching that would be proper speed
limits instead of driving so slowly as to be driven to bordom.


From: richard on
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:20:44 -0700, Scott in SoCal wrote:

> I'm sure most of you have seen this:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBmE92n5mEI
>
> A similar collision occurred early this morning: a Trucker stalled in
> lanes on the SB 5. ~9 minutes later, a Droid comes flying along and
> rams right into the back of the stalled rig. The front half of the car
> was completely shredded beneath the trailer; the driver was killed
> instantly.
>
> http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-5-freeway-fatal-crash,0,66991.story
>
> HTF do you not see these huge obstructions directly in front of you?

Better question is, just how fast was this idiot going to get his car that
deep under the truck? Trucks are equipped with a bumper to prevent this.

I've seen numerous times where the bumpers get locked and maybe a foot or
so of the car lodged under the truck, but all the way up to the front
window?
From: richard on
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:21:17 -0700 (PDT), Harry K wrote:

> On Mar 26, 7:20�am, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm sure most of you have seen this:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBmE92n5mEI
>>
>> A similar collision occurred early this morning: a Trucker stalled in
>> lanes on the SB 5. ~9 minutes later, a Droid comes flying along and
>> rams right into the back of the stalled rig. The front half of the car
>> was completely shredded beneath the trailer; the driver was killed
>> instantly.
>>
>> http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-5-freeway-fatal-crash,0,66991.s...
>>
>> HTF do you not see these huge obstructions directly in front of you?
>> --
>> The MFFY Litmus Test:
>> If your maneuver forces another driver WHO HAS THE RIGHT-OF-WAY
>> to alter course or speed, what you did was probably MFFY.
>
> Ummm...looking to see if you 'texted' correctly?
>
> Washington state just woke up. The bill making hand held CP use a
> primary infraction was signed yesterday. It, of course, will do no
> good. What is needed is a circuit in every phone that makes it
> inoperable except for 911 if moving over x mph.
>
> Harry K

and how would the cp know the speed of the car?
From: Brent on
On 2010-03-26, richard <member(a)newsguy.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:20:44 -0700, Scott in SoCal wrote:
>
>> I'm sure most of you have seen this:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBmE92n5mEI
>>
>> A similar collision occurred early this morning: a Trucker stalled in
>> lanes on the SB 5. ~9 minutes later, a Droid comes flying along and
>> rams right into the back of the stalled rig. The front half of the car
>> was completely shredded beneath the trailer; the driver was killed
>> instantly.
>>
>> http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-5-freeway-fatal-crash,0,66991.story
>>
>> HTF do you not see these huge obstructions directly in front of you?
>
> Better question is, just how fast was this idiot going to get his car that
> deep under the truck?

Not much speed is required for that. 45-50mph is probably more than
enough.

> Trucks are equipped with a bumper to prevent this.

US underride guard requirements were very very minimal for a very long
time, even the recent upgrades aren't much better.

> I've seen numerous times where the bumpers get locked and maybe a foot or
> so of the car lodged under the truck, but all the way up to the front
> window?

Video showing a Ford Granada crash at 33mph with similiar results. Even
with the improved guard the granada is almost as badly mangled at 34mph.
An old granada is a more substantial vehicle than that little import
in the news story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmw0HIKgHiM

BTW lots gpstroll trucking school grads linked from that video...