Posted on 12/14/2016 5:07:19 AM PST by RummyChick
I would be hacked off if I was the guy hit by the black truck. He was driving slow. left a lot of room in front of him..then gets rear ended by a guy who probably doesn’t even have enough insurance..if any.
Probably got whiplash from that rear end.
“designed to attempt further”
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should be “designed to prevent”.
lol, I need more coffee....
“a guy who probably doesn’t even have enough insurance..if any.”
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Fortunately for him, Comcast has deep pockets. One of those vehicles could have ended up smashing into somebody’s house.
Not at all, they did nothing wrong. The people involved in the rear endings were going way too fast for the weather conditions on a 40 MPH two lane road.
Half way thru the video, look at that pick-up truck and how far he traveled thru the deep snow and across the yards after he rear ended his first car. It's obvious he was in 4 x 4 drive and that's why he figured he could drive as fast as he was going. Unfortunately 4x4 ain't gonna do one bit of good on ice.....
I see that crap every winter after a snow storm and it's always the SUV's and trucks driving too fast that end up in the ditches....
Flip the positions of the truck. Notice the slide offs are happening on the side of the road where you have to stop and they are coming over a hill.
Imagine if people were having to drive toward the hill on the wrong side of the road. People could have been killed.
clearly, the blind spot of the hill caused a big part of the problem and Comcast didn’t sufficiently protect the drivers.
“Comcast didn’t sufficiently protect the drivers.”
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Yup. My money is on the settling with those involved rather than letting a jury sort it out.
I hadn’t heard but it absolutely doesn’t surprise me. Must be something in all the water and not just Flint.
People drive too fast in snow. It happens every year.
Agree with that...people driving certain vehicles get too over confident in bad conditions. I am never worried about myself getting out of control (well, always just a little, enough to keep me from going out of control) but I do keep an eye peeled on my rear view mirror and in the oncoming lanes for OTHER cars.
Sigh. In those conditions, even looking out for yourself isn’t enough. That guy in the black truck should be put in the stocks next to a slushy winter road. He was flying. Then he tore up those people’s yards.
Two lane road and they closed off one lane, just over a hill...No flagmen...Obviously no signs up the road...Good thing there was ice and snow so the cars could slide instead of roll...’Lock ‘em up’...
For years we heard the slogan, “Watch the Other Guy!” in regards to traffic safety. It was a good message - wonder why they stopped using it.
“Did utility work for 30 years.”
I live in rural Illinois where we get high winds and ice storms frequentry. Our power goes out several times a year. The utility guys work their butts off in terrible weather. Several years ago a tornado just about destroyed two towns near me. Our power was down. I called to report it but told them I had a generator and a weeks worth of fuel, I’m not high priority. The lady taking the call paused then said “you’re the first call I’ve had where someone was pleasant.”
I was listening to a Chicago radio station while they were recovering from an ice storm power outage. An alderman was on and taking calls for some reason. People were calling and whining about the slow service. This arrogant politician was implying that he was going to use his great influence and power to get those lazy utility workers to speed up things. A woman called in and told him her husband was a lineman and had lost part of a hand to a fatigue induced accident several years ago and if said alderman wanted to get the power on sooner maybe he should go out and work with high voltage in the cold and dark with no sleep. Really tore him a new one!
I drove a Uhaul truck and trailer for my daughter’s move from North Dakota to southern Wyoming in January a few years ago. When we left North Dakota, conditions were what they call a “ground Blizzard” and the temperature was 27 below zero.
Most of the trip for the first couple hundred miles was two lane roads. I averaged about 60 on the roads in that state and 60-70 most of the trip. The biggest concern was wind. And my favorite tool was the GPS showing me how curvy the road was ahead.
The secret is that, assuming the wind is not too strong, you CAN go fast if there is no traffic and the road is straight. You just accept that it is possible you may hit a deer, which we didn’t. You need to always be aware that you are driving on a skating rink when you come upon curves and, especially, traffic.
When we got to our destination it was 19 above zero and it felt downright balmy.
Absolutely! In both directions I didn't see one problem with visibility. I've survived a lifetime of winters here in Michigan and only had one accident on black ice that was unavoidable.
Did you see how far he traveled across those lawns in the deep snow after he hit his first car? The speed limit on that road was only 40 MPH according to the Comcast guy so the pick up had to be going much faster than that.....
I watch a lot of youtube “crash compilation” videos. They have helped me in a lot of ways, but the two most clear ones:
1. I got a dash cam.
2. I look both ways when I get a green light.
I like the way the Comcrap dude was able to quote the rules for setting up cones, as if that gave him the right to abandon responsibility and simple common sense.
I work for the DOT, Utility companies are governed by different rules than everyone else. The MUTCD “manual for uniform traffic control devices” covers what should happen during a typical “Lane Closure” and the way that the UC’s get around this is that a lane closure is usually governed by a time frame, such as 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 etc.
The UC’s consider that a 15 minute to half an hour does not meat the criteria for having the 1000’, 500’ and Flagger ahead signs. And they don’t do it. They do not usually even carry the necessary signage on their trucks to do so, for temporary work.
UNLESS it is to be a major operation such as installing new poles and wires or going to require many hours of work.
All that being said; locally here just a couple of months ago, Verizon was inside of a “full blown closure” when one of their repairmen was struck and killed so these guy will normally do everything they can to keep their truck between them, their work, and traffic.
Being said x2; this was an unsafe operation, doing “all that I am “REQUIRED” to do was not enough.
If I was managing these 2, they both would have been reprimanded if not fired. I know that they had a job to do but they should have shut down and come back later, I would not have faulted them for that. Though the homeowner wouldn’t have been happy.
Being said x3; By the looks of the aftermath of the storm, the crews were probably spread thin and this was only one of several dozen locations that the tech needed to respond to that day and some fault lays with the drivers excessive speed for the conditions.
I like the way the Comcrap dude was able to quote the rules for setting up cones, as if that gave him the right to abandon responsibility and simple common sense.
“I like the way the Comcrap dude was able to quote the rules for setting up cones, as if that gave him the right to abandon responsibility and simple common sense.”
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Like I sez, I give him a pass on the first crash. But right after the first one he should have phoned the police to report it, then call his supervisor to explain the situation. Ideally he should have pulled ahead and off the road to make the calls.
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