Point of impact is at lower right corner, then follow the skids/tire marks. Only question is, how did she miss and fail to yield to a large tractor trailer? I'd go with total distraction, not paying attention.
Point of impact is at lower right corner, then follow the skids/tire marks. Only question is, how did she miss and fail to yield to a large tractor trailer? I'd go with total distraction, not paying attention.
Agreed. :-(
6 teenage girls in one vehicle...what could go wrong?
Or the pregnant roller skate she was driving lacked the ability to accelerate out of its own way.
Along that same line, my wife and daughter in our white Ford Explorer were in a somewhat similar accident last summer. A girl (17) blew through a stop & went across 3 lanes of the 4-lane rural highway my wife was driving on. Our Explorer tagged the girl's sedan and veered right, across the 4th lane and slammed into a low guardrail on the edge of a steep high bank into a borrow pit (pond). Good thing we had NOT raised the Explorer for better ground clearance (we do a fair amount of camping, exploring on poor roads, etc.) or it might have flipped over the guardrail. Both vehicles were totaled; somehow no one was seriously injured; the worst injury was my wife's ankle (took her 3+ weeks to walk normally). If our Explorer had been a semi, I'd say the 17 y/o would likely be very seriously injured or dead, the semi would not veer as sharply, probably, but, considering what the Explorer did to the guardrail I'd say still a 50/50 chance it'd go into that borrow pit. Visibility there is great, beautiful sunny day about 1 pm, recently well redone intersection, the DRL's were on... The dang girl just didn't look.
I am a civil engineer by profession, and I really question the layout of that intersection. I would never sign off on a design like that. The aerial photo makes it clear to me that it was redesigned from its original configuration, too.
Looking at the trucks skid marks, he tried the best he could to get out of the way. I really feel bad for him, he has to live with this.