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Horror Crash Shows Why You Never, Ever Pass A Truck Before Your Exit
http://jalopnik.com ^ | october 15, 2014 | Raphael Orlove

Posted on 10/16/2014 11:20:22 AM PDT by lowbridge

To every single human being I have seen cutting across multiple lanes to rush to their highway exit: this could happen to you.

Amazingly the person driving this Ford Focus, 25-year-old Jasmien Claeys, survived the multiple-impact wreck. As Carscoopsreports, she told Belgian HLN that the crash put her in a coma, shattered her hand, and broke her top two vertebrae, but she is recovering.

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To: lowbridge

bfl...


21 posted on 10/16/2014 11:49:24 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: 556x45

I was bad at right hand passing until I started hypermiling. Now I’M the guy slowing everybody down on the two lane stuff. And it looks odd because I drive a Scion FR-S with Z rated tires.

BTW, I’ve passed on the left shoulder before. Quite a few times in my lifetime, btw.

My father took me to the airport one day a few years ago and I know where I got it. We were in his Ford Ranger on the 405 S curves in Renton and he was so irritated with people poking in the HOV lane that he passed them on the left shoulder. It even freaked me out. Oh, and he was 82 at the time.


22 posted on 10/16/2014 11:53:05 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Minsc

“I drive around 120 miles a day.”

Yeah, but thats only for an hour. ;-)


23 posted on 10/16/2014 11:53:37 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Moonman62
The Focus must be a pretty safe car.

Apparently the woman was in a coma for a time, but did survive.

24 posted on 10/16/2014 11:54:45 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Navy Patriot; boop

Where did the dash cam come from?


They sell those for about 100 bucks at all the truck stops around here. I’ve even thought about getting one. If I was a long haul truck drivere I would ABSOLUTELY have one. It’s a legal thing...


25 posted on 10/16/2014 11:55:05 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: lowbridge

Here in Houston it has been people driving 40 mph in the fast lane of the 610 loop and no one in front of them.


26 posted on 10/16/2014 12:01:58 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Mich Patriot

article says she lived. “how” is beyond me


27 posted on 10/16/2014 12:03:32 PM PDT by Shamrock498
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To: kingu

Apparently the woman was in a coma for a time, but did survive.

...

Considering what I saw on the video, that’s impressive.


28 posted on 10/16/2014 12:03:57 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Shamrock498

Well I’m glad to hear she lived. I’m at work so I tend to “skim” a few times daily (thus didn’t read the details). You’re right though, I don’t see how.


29 posted on 10/16/2014 12:11:10 PM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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To: cuban leaf
If I was a long haul truck driver I would ABSOLUTELY have one. It’s a legal thing..

Many trucking companies fit their rigs with secured vehicle parameter monitoring, including video, that establishes a legal evidentiary record.

They do so for the same reason you state, the record is admissible in court as evidence. Often it will show that their employee was responsibly obeying the law to the detriment of insurance fraudsters and state revenue officers who are not so accurate in their "recollection" of roadway incidents.

30 posted on 10/16/2014 12:11:47 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: lowbridge

I got caught up by one of these idiots. A guy in a Geo Metro tried to cut across 4 lanes of freeway traffic to make his exit. I was in the second from right lane and hit him in the passenger door and set him spinning like a top up the embankment. The Geo was toast and was hauled away by a tow truck. my jeep got a dented fender and a bent bumper and I drove away. And guess what, he had no insurance.


31 posted on 10/16/2014 12:15:06 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: lowbridge

I LOL’d


32 posted on 10/16/2014 12:16:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: lowbridge

Passing the truck was not the the cause of this collision.

It was caused by the driver blindly changing lanes without being able to see if there were stopped vehicles in the lane they were changing into. This was a result of changing lanes behind the DHL truck, which they were following too closely, which totally obstructed their view of that exit lane.


33 posted on 10/16/2014 12:19:01 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: tflabo
I always hear a voice saying "Right side, SUICIDE" whenever tempted to pass a truck on the right.
34 posted on 10/16/2014 12:30:54 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: lowbridge

I’m surprised I’ve never seen one of those crashes on the road.


35 posted on 10/16/2014 12:31:56 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: lowbridge

That’s what always got me at an accident scene...the peoples personal belongings scattered all over. Don’t know why.


36 posted on 10/16/2014 12:37:53 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: boop

Lot of folks all over the world are driving with one on now
I often fly with one onder the wing of my plane


37 posted on 10/16/2014 12:39:58 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: lowbridge

Being a safe driver involves a lot of common sense, and that’s why we see things like this.


38 posted on 10/16/2014 12:41:26 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: lowbridge

My nightmare scenario is following too closely behind a vehicle larger than your own. If the vehicle in front quickly changes lanes to avoid an obstacle, you now own the obstacle.


39 posted on 10/16/2014 12:44:20 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: DCBryan1

“There is ALWAYS another exit just ahead. YOu can turn around and comeback alot safer than trying to make a “missed” exit.”


That’s how I’ve always felt——but my ex,no way. He’d be doing the idiotic thing. There were many hairy moments driving with him.

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40 posted on 10/16/2014 12:45:17 PM PDT by Mears
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