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    Quote Originally Posted by IndeedSS View Post
    This was quite sad but until the truth comes out, it's hard to pass judgement.
    Well I will gladly pass judgement. I mean seriously. It took the truck almost 100 yards, 300 feet plus, to finally come to complete stop. And that is AFTER only hitting TEN cars infront of him. And the section of road he was on, was downhill and he is riding up in his cab. He would have a better view of ahead traffic than most regular motorists would have.

    The MHP brought him to the Troop C HQ, just up the street from the accident to be interviewed. After the interview he was released and it was stated by the news outlets that they do intend persure charges against the Tractor Trailer driver. It is obvious he was driving way to fast the conditions before him.

    I hope they throw the book at him and the family's of the loved ones lost sue the pants off him and the company. That will not bring their loved ones back, but hopefully it will get this monkey off the roads and close down a company that obviously hires incompetent drivers.

    Sorry Lee I dont mean to point the crosshairs at you, not my intention, my intention is to show he truly drove in a way that helped to further cause the accident. Had he have been driving at a safe speed, and he HAD a clearview of the road ahead of him, maybe he would have only hit one or two cars, but instead he literally plowed through 10 cars. And from the impart on the Audi, which it's trunk is literally where the driver use to sit was crushed and the white focus and its mangled mess, the driver of the tractor trailer was going WAY TO FAST.

    Could have a small 4 wheeler gotten into the path of the truck? Sure! But if the tractor trailer driver was going the speed limit or at least slowing down seeing what was ahead of him, maybe there would not have been such a loss of life. Cause there are no blind spots after Mason road. it is purely downhill and you can see all the way upto 270 at that point. How he could have misjudged that? It's almost impossible unless he was travelling at a higher rate of speed into that mess at 40 and 270.
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