Was the Turtle a Senator?
Well, Leon, you passed the Voight-Kampff test proving you have empathy and aren’t a replicant. Unfortunately, you failed your IQ test.
The truck driver is at fault for not being able to stop. Driving the interstate during rush hour requires a little more concentration. They know cars contain idiots so they can’t give them the benefit of any doubt.
Honorable Mention for stupidity goes to the driver of the gray car who pulled in front of the trucker at the last second.
Huge kudo’s to the trucker for some excellent heads up driving.
Have to say the idiot in the gray car problem caused the mess, I think that truck driver may have been able to handle everything if not for gray car driver doing absolutely no thinking and pulling out in front of him like that. I agree the truck drive did a great bit of driving and controlling everything even then.
I’ve stopped cars for a turtle and also for a mother duck with multiple ducklings — always on residential streets with slow speeds. It’s the right thing to do (if you can do it safely). Only takes a minute.
The family of pheasants trying to cross the I-90?
Uh, NO. They all got mushed.
Floridians are bad drivers, but they're not retards.
Under ideal conditions, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the agency that regulates interstate trucking, calculates the stopping distance of semi-trucks vs. cars as follows: A normal passenger vehicle traveling at a speed of 65 miles per hour would take about 316 feet to stop. For a fully-loaded commercial truck, the stopping distance of it running at 65 miles per hour is about 525 feet.
That gray car cut in front of the truck at point blank range and gave him no time to stop even if it was a passenger vehicle. The truck couldn’t have had more than about 100 feet to react and brake at best. That is half of what a passenger vehicle requires. Trucker didn’t have a chance. The estimated breaking distance for a passenger vehicle at 65 is approximately 212.5 feet.
And if the gray car had been observing the traffic and driving with a reasonable distance behind the car if front of him, he wouldn’t have had to change lanes.
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A democrat, no doubt.
Truck drivers fault. He should’ve been prepared to stop and driving in such a manner to be able to stop. Absolutely his fault 100%.
Here’s the video without the talking: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327681827112
I agree with the others here who said the gray car caused the accident.
Sometimes cars stop on the highway. You have to be ready to stop.
A semi might have trouble stopping in time, but not the gray car.
The driver of that gray car wasn’t driving a safe stopping distance and then cut off the semi.
On some roads in South Georgia, there are signs that indicate turtle crossings and some may think they advise to stop for turtles in the road. They read something such as “Be careful as turtles cross highway”. If the turtle was in my lane, I would navigate so to go over it with tires on either side. If the turtle was on the edges of my lane, I would swerve slightly as needed, reasonable, but safe to avoid crushing the turtle.
However, in heavy traffic, with everyone going a 60 plus speed limit, I would NOT stop suddenly to avoid crushing the turtle. I certainly wouldn’t swerve into another vehicle and risk killing another person in order to save a turtle! Stuff happens. The turtle should have waited until after rush-hour to go to where ever he/she/it was going.