The 402 is one of the most dangerous highways in North America. That’s a very unforgiving highway. The handful of times I have driven onit I can recall at least one serious or fatal accident.
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According to Bethany’s mother “There will be no early retirement. Bethany only has medical benefits through my work, and there’s no way I can let that go.”
I don’t understand. She lived in Oshawa Canada. The accident happened in Canada. Why is she not covered by the glorious Canadian universal free health care?
Tragic accident, very sad.
Another contributing factor: driver probably following too closely.
I see drivers tailgating constantly on the interstate. Distance between cars should be one car length per every 10 mph, or at least 10 car lengths at 60 mph.
Which means he wasn't allowing himself enough stopping distance. By definition.
But that's ok, people don't like it when the car ahead of them is going 73mpg and they want to go 75mph, so they get 5 inches behind that car ahead of them to psychologically "nudge them forward or out of the way". Because after all, every car you pass shaves 1.5 seconds off your arrival time and those 1.5 seconds can really add up.
It's worth risking your life, your feet, your face, your knees, your eyes to shave off a few seconds from your arrival time. Totally worth it. I get it. I absolutely do.
My wife tries to tell me that tail-gaters are demonstrating effective IQ levels lower than body lice but I explain to her that those 1.5 seconds are really monumental achievements in peoples lives and have to be respected.
While that is true, don’t put your feet on the dashboard, the real issue here was the boyfriend following to close to the truck he ran into. Had he followed a safe distance behind, none of this would have occurred.
I tell my daughter not to do this often.
Now, whenever I have passengers in the back seat, and I’m on the highway, I insist they wear their seatbelts. Studies have shown that in accidents involving sudden deceleration crashes, front seat passengers, despite wearing seatbelts and having airbags around them, are often killed ( broken necks) by the bodies of unsecured rear seat passengers coming over the tops of the front seats.
I subscribe to the “Don’t Swerve for Bambi” rule.
Yet, I certainly will attempt -within all human endeavor- to avoid 1-ton of Detroit steel at any opportunity.
YMMV
Mmmmmmmmm, venison burgers!
A very sad story...I don’t know if “don’t put your feet on the dashboard” is the lesson I would take from it...but still, very sad.
Hopefully this incident causes a few of them to stop doing that.
My wife does this routinely as a front seat passenger, much to my irritation.