On wed. morning on my drive home it was a bear. The winds were over 40 miles an hour and snowing like crazy. I drive a long way home and today i knew it was going to be a longer ride home. Wind was so bad that the snow was drifting 10 feet across the road and maybe 3-4 ft. deep. As i approched a open field (wide open) you could not see. A car behind me wanted to get around in the worse way so i moved over and thought he was a nut for trying to go through what you could not even see 1 foot. Now with myself and many other cars waiting for the wind to stop somewhat so we could proceed a volenteer fireman appers out of no where and comes up to my window. (i was first truck in line waiting). I asked him about going forward and he says that the road is now closed due to an accident. I asked what happened and he told me that a car had just rammed a semi that was coming northbound. I then asked what kind of car it was and oh my god it was the car that went around me. Both folks were killed on impact . I had chills run up and down my back and the old spinkter was tight. I guess i was either lucky i did not proceed or was i smart not to proceed??. This is why winter sucks because now someone is missing family members. It made me sick to my guts also i have just completed working 14 15 hour days in a row. It took me 3.5 hours to get home and a normal drive is 55 minutes. I am glad it wasn't me but i am sad for the folks in the car who would not wait... I guess what i am saying is should i have not moved over and made him wait or did i do the right thing and just let him decide??.

 

You did the right thing. Moving over is a lot more curtious and takes more risk out of the situation. might not appear that way, but by moving over you give the guy a lot more room to pass and wont jeperdise as many people. Take a mountain road for example. Going up in your motorhome with all 890lb/torque going (not very fast) and you pull off a little to let people pass. If you had not you stand a lot higher risk of letting them pass you where unsafe conditions exists. They could go to pass and not have enough room and run you off the road, hit a car head on, or get close to you and make an emergency move and push you into oncomming traffic. Way to many variables to look at. Its like the movie final destiny. If you pay attention you will benifit, its not your job to tell peole how to drive, its thier decision. Again, way way to many variables. If they would have changed the tires 6months and $800 earlier instead of being cheap, got a differnt vehicle, had a DOT officer to pull the truck over to check for Farm diesel in the fuel, have mother nature call down for a restroom break.

Anything. could have read one more stock quote in the Wall street journal that would have made them leave the house 1/12 of a second later, then hit the red light that should have been yellow, show up to work late, get a differnt first phone call, that phone call needs to be solved, you work all day long on it, get off 12 min later than normal and bam, you arrive home. But then it would be up to the stock quote computer, the guy who programmed the quotes, the CEO who made the company a public company, the banker who lended the first loan to the company, the parents who "checked out the back seat of the car", who went to wharton to study business, who's president put the US into war, who invented planes to attack, who made the wheel, who needed fire. Overall, its the people who made fire's fault. We shall blame them.







Kinda cold walking to class at 7:00 am. BURRRRRRR

 

that's an amazing story. i feel sorry for the passenger & for the semi driver of the vehicle, and for anyone else who was put out by the accident, but not so much the driver. (baring them driving erratically to rush to a hospital for an emergency or something)

there are dopes all over the planet & you cant control their actions. in fact, it was a nice thing you did by pulling over and letting them go.

i have seen plenty of drivers like that here in new jersey. myself in snow, driving 45 in 4wd in the slow lane (road down to two lanes) and having idiots in cars ride my a$$ like they were drafting me. i dont get it, maybe there should be a common-sense portion of the driving exam before getting your license.

question 1) if you are driving with a hot cup of coffee, where would you place the cup?

you did the right, (and nice) thing. i dont know that i would have been gracious enough to pull over to let an a$$ go by. what they did with your graciousness was their choice. who knows, maybe if you didnt pull over they would have swerved around you and driven through someones house. you never know, you control your own actions (just like the other driver controlled theirs), and you did the right thing.

very sad situation.

 

After watching the news i found out that the driver and woman passenger were both killed on impact the semi hit the suv broadside on the passenger side and they both died instantly. The semi driver was not hurt and also another suv rammed the semi in the rear and that driver was okay. The news said the driver was giving the woman a lift home after work. It still bothers me that they showed total disrespect for the driving conditions and ended up dead.

Life it unsure but death is Guaranteed