True, hopefully this wasn't a case of the mustang driver swerving to miss someone else and running into the back of a stopped truck. I say this, as a traffic crawl and looking at phone you not be going fast enough to get that far under the trailer. That looks like a lane change at speed and a dead stop. either from force to swerve into another lane or the weaving in and out of lanes like a moron.
Well presuming the truck had a rear bumper it would have been strong enough to withstand a car going at legal speeds from going under it. Truck trailers have standards just like cars. There is no lawyer that will convince a jury that the level of damage was caused by a vehicle doing the legal speed limit. Iām certainly sorry the this happened and of the end result. That said I would bet the official outcome is going to be excessive speed.
The same weak standard for trucks as in seats in passenger cars for rear ended protection. They all collapse and severely injure front seaters. It all boils down to money to strengthen vs cheaper to pay out lawsuit.
Wow, I canāt imagine how fast you need to be going to get a mustang that far under a truck like that. I wonder if the only thing that stopped it was the trailer wheels and axles.
At the speed that car was traveling I highly doubt that any automatic safety function would have helped.
