this happened near us a few years ago. The trucker driver was watching on-line porn while driving on the highway.
No pre-impact skidding or braking. The driver was asleep, or distracted.
That had to be fatal or multiple fatal. Big time lawsuits...
Cell phone?
It’s quite common for LD truckers to fall into a haze, because the road just goes on and on.
Very very odd that it was being recorded on cell phone. Almost like the person recording knew it was about to happen? Why would he be recording boring traffic out the back window? [There didn’t seem to be any real interesting vehicles like a Lamborghini or anything behind them]
Something doesnt smell right. What accept was that on the r3cording?
I usually look out the rear view mirror because of things like this.
When coming up to stopped traffic, I always watch the mirror very carefully and rapidly tap the brakes to flash the brake lights. I always plan the escape route and leave enough room in front of me to dive to that escape route. There’s nothing that scares me more than one lane at a standstill on a freeway. If it’s a standstill for my exit, I’ll sometimes drive to the next exit and backtrack to avoid standing still in a lane with cars whizzing by to my left at 70 mph.
My God that was horrible. Those poor folks never knew what hit them.
Wow!
I can see that accident was near a Six Flags.
My second ex-wife wrote me a note one time where she claimed she “wasn’t stooped”. I kept it as proof that she is.
Ouch! I thought it would be a traffic jam, but it was a single lane of stopped cars, likely backed up from a nearby exit.