Posted on 12/14/2016 5:07:19 AM PST by RummyChick
It varies by state. In Oregon the signs go: road work, be prepared to stop, flagger ahead. Cones creating the transition area. Flags spaced 300 ft for 40 mph, 500 ft for 55 and above. Interstates may be different but I don’t work on them. I think they have to have the larger signs in addition to everything else.
Evidently, this was a long job - more than 1/2 hour. multiple comcast trucks in camera shot at various times.
I suspect the guy doing the video lived in the neighorhood but haven’t seen any reports on it.
Comcast wont get sued
People can sue for anything.
Comcast will be sued. The drivers may have been driving too fast but Comcast contributed to the accidents.
At minimum Cones should have been at the the top of the hill to give warning.
A jury will decide if they are at fault.
Also, the guy should have called the police rather than get into a confrontation with the workers.
The rules tell him the MINIMUM he has to do. Common sense, given the road conditions and the hill, says he should have done more.
ROFL!!! What an a-hole ...
Plus this isn’t just an accident that happened on a rural road with no documentation. this a viral video that is getting
a lot of play on the internet. Comcast has gotten a lot of calls
and posts on pages about it according to news reports I looked at.
“The drivers may have been driving too fast but Comcast contributed to the accidents.”
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More than contributed. Unless Comcast can show that cars were flying off that portion of road left & right before and after their repair trucks were there, they’re going to be hard-pressed to show they were not the *cause* of the accidents.
I bet you’re wrong, and I don’t think the guy was a jerk.
The rules tell him the MINIMUM he has to do. Common sense, given the road conditions and the hill, says he should have done more.
Now, if the seat post breaks, causing me injury, I can’t sue because I went past their recommendations. IF it had broken and I had not crossed the line, I could sue.
This is how I see this. I’m speaking about “legal” responsibility. And it is important for drivers to understand this concept as they drive in snow (or any other condition). It might help you to not be part of the show.
I no longer drive in snow unless I ABSOLUTELY have to get somewhere, like a hospital emergency room. It’s just not worth the risk.
“I no longer drive in snow”
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You in the deep south or ?
I wasn’t speaking of legal responsibility, but moral responsibility.
Obviously, there is a difference.
And there is no question that the driver of the black pickup was legally responsible for every penny of damage that he did.
And you are exactly right...stay off the roads under those conditions if at all possible.
Exactly. He and everyone else were fortunate he went off the road to the left instead of the right with all the cars and gawkers standing there.
Someone could have been seriously injured or killed.
Did they issue these people drivers license?
Put a brick on their gas petal to make them drive too fast?
The cones they put out may have been sufficient warning for dry or wet conditions, but not snow and ice. Some icy road conditions may require 10 times the stopping distance depending on tires. It looks like the pickup was speeding, but he may have simply been unable to slow down if he had a crappy set of tires..
So Comcast is suppose to supply these people with tires?
Central KY. We only get a few bad snow days a year. I work from home on those days. My unwillingness to drive in snow dictates where I live.;)
Ahh, I was wondering. In my neck of the woods (MN), we only have 2 seasons: “Road Repair” and “Winter”. They’s no gettin’ away from the white stuff.
Even if you have a new set of A/S tires, it may not be enough distance under certain conditions. Probably not an issue with snow tires.
Good to know.
Are they suppose to detail my car too?
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