Posted on 07/23/2024 12:10:11 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
An upstate New York mother and her 18-year-old son were killed in a head-on collision on their way back from a college orientation Friday when another motorist swerved into their lane, according to authorities and family friends.
Recent high school grad Colin Ferrell was behind the wheel of a 2015 Acura RDX with his mother Tiffany Ferrell in the passenger seat when they were killed in the daylight crash on Interstate 86 in the town of Chemung at around 5 p.m., New York State police said.
The other driver, Steven Mallory, 36, who was driving a 2018 Nissan Maxima also died at the scene.
Mallory, of Horseheads, was driving westbound when he crossed over the median and into the eastbound lane where he smashed into Ferrell’s car, state police said.
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My friend and I were almost erased a month ago by an elderly man who passed out and drifted into oncoming lanes of US1.
His vehicle hesitated between our lane and the other northbound lane before drifting squarely out of ours and into the path of the cement truck in the lane next to us.
Cement truck pushed him a good 50 yards, and our vehicle sustained damage from the debris.
Driver did not surive.
**We CATHOLICS get our cars BLESSED!**
What about the buses, airliners, elevators, subways, cruise ships, etc y’all ride on?...
There is a constant reminder that tomorrow is guaranteed to no one.
The real rub is if they were only a minute earlier or a minute later they would have been alright.
Things like this are very, very hard to take.
What if one or both of those cars was BLESSED??
My dad had sleep apnea and dozed off commuting a couple times he eventually got the surgery.
It’s a reasonable conclusion considering the number of fatal accidents like that where the driver who crossed the median turned out to be drunk.
I actually drove past an accident of those exact circumstances once while they were still clearing it. The car of the dead man was covered with a cloth. The drunk survived, as they do too often.
I DO understand why people assume it was a drunk driver!
5 PM is a bit early for sun blinding him
And PETS! Every October...
I bless the airplanes thati get on.
“he may have had a medical emergency while driving.”
36-year-old, I wonder if he was vaxed.
A work colleague lost his son in a head-on collision like that. Dry look weather, very wide median, 100 ft or more. Poor kid was driving home for college Christmas break.
I’m always very wary on such roads.
We do? First I've heard that one.
The medical info story was pit out by the driver’s family on a gofundme page.
The alleged medical emergency has not been confirmed by authorities.
I’ve often wondered if some of these fatal one vehicle or two vehicle crashes were in fact successful suicide attempts.
The unfortunate part is that sometimes innocents are taken out as well.
Per the Staties...
Crossed over from westbound interstate into the eastbound interstate...
That’s going to make for an interesting accident report.
Agree many do both as they call it a chaser.
Los Angeles has hit a runs almost every night the many caught did both.
Let us apply some governmental correction creme on this.
Ok folks from here on every drivers license holder shall pass a medical examination administered by a federal motor safety administration approved medical provider. This medical card shall be taken by a local dmv office each renewal to maintain your right to operate a motor vehicle and you shall also keep a copy of these papers with you at all timed while driving.
This will be familiar to those who hold a commercial drivers license.
A regulatory exercise to keep impaired , accident prone, physically unfit persons out from behind the wheel of big rigs. They probably have hidden mental acuity built in too.
This was a political knee jerk reaction to the magnitude of catastrophic damage in such wrecks. Being written by unelected bureaucrats with lenient promulgation authority the overbearing and industry taxing regulations are not cost effective and in my opinion is top heavy on the wrong segment of this population. Fact, most big rigs are still well regulated by their old hateful capitalistic owners who do not want loss and hire accordingly .
But, Now we have to use government approved truck driving schools to hire and they have to train and approve all commercial drivers license holders.
These schools accommodate and segregate students and license issued according to automatic transmission only or yes! skilled enough to actually shift gears.
Gone are the days of good old farm boys and the art of self regulation. Sadly and idiocrastically it is being replaced by government meddling where it is least needed and that impedes us.
They attack smoking but never alcohol it is ad if the wild wild west goes everywhere elsewhere. At least require an IQ test for something. An yes do not ride a motor cycle or small car a large urban assault vehicle or preferably a large pickup or bigger because sooner or later the a stupid will try to kill you, it’s a jungle out there.
Rant off
I have never heard of getting a car blessed. Dogs and cats yes but not cars.
Those lanes are separated by guardrails and many feet of median as weel. Very hard to visualize how to drive in the opposing direction lane.
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