Horrible to see this

[K4fxd]

Social media addiction is quite real and those on the phone driving are as impaired as any drunk.

Shutting the screen off would take care of this. Push back will be from those saying they are on a train, bus or a passenger in a car.

GPS should take care of train and bus, car too damn bad.

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[HoosierDaddy]

And now we all have 0 feedback tablets on our dash instead of knobs and buttons we can feel for and NOT have to take our eyes off the road to use.

Yes, it's terrible. Touch that requires eyes is bad. All input should be voice or controls you can feel. Things a driver NEEDS to see should have an option for HuD.

 

[331GT]

this is the one that still bothers me. driver killed a mother and kid. im quite sure there are likely many here that could have been in similar situations but luckily the circumstances did not lead to it. split second decision to run someone else on the street and boom, it's all over for innocent people. bad enough to kill yourself, but taking out others just living their lives...

https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa...ayshore-crash-as-young-driver-faces-sentence/

 

[Cobra Jet]

I see a lot of discussion about 18-wheelers or box trucks and the rear crash bars.

Even if the rear crash bars were reinvented to be safer, or required to be lower than current height from road surface - I don't think it would have mattered in this example (and any others like it),.

That truck being stationary and the S550 most likely moving at highway speed (say 65mph at the minimum), hitting a totally stationary truck like that is not even comparable to just driving straight into a wall. Where most wall structures would give and collapse, a truck with reinforced steel girders used for its trailer construction won't give at all...let alone the total loaded weight including the cab that will barely flex from a car hitting it dead on from behind. Even if the trailer had a lower rear bumper system, ANY vehicle between 3500-6000lbs would still have been extremely damaged.

Sometimes I find it strange that people in this type of accident were not able to see a truck of that size or in some instances Emergency vehicles with bright LED roof and body mounted systems - and one on the shoulder at that - and still somehow maneuvered off the highway and into the shoulder directly in line of the other vehicle.

Sad for sure to see any type of accident resulting in the loss of human life.

 

[WildHorse]

Bottom line, the Mustang IMO was doing a stupid amount of speed.

 

[GT Pony]

I see a lot of discussion about 18-wheelers or box trucks and the rear crash bars.

Even if the rear crash bars were reinvented to be safer, or required to be lower than current height from road surface - I don't think it would have mattered in this example (and any others like it),.

I think it would have made a difference if the car didn't go under the trailer and rip the top off, and most likely decapitated the driver. I'd rather hit a more solid structure in the back of the trailer and not go underneath vs. what happened in this crash. Seat belts and air bags won't stop the whole top being sheared off including your head - nothing will prevent that except to prevent the car from going under the trailer. I'd take my chances with the seat belts and air bag over the back end of a semi trailer acting like a giant shearing machine.

 

[EmCel]

Sucks that he was so young too

 

[jason5.0]

reminds me of this video

 

[Orange devil]

Sucks that he was so young too

So sad. I feel for his family ,must be incredibly hard during this holiday season wish them strength.

 

[rhexis]

im pretty sure tractor and trailers have to have mansfield bars to avoid this kind of collision result from the looks of the wreckage, that mustange was moving at a good clip. rip mustang dude.

 

[WildHorse]

reminds me of this video

The mustang the OP posted hit it square on, hence my 'stupid speed' comment.

 

[EmCel]

reminds me of this video

That’s devastating even at that speed

 

[Millarduck]

According to recent data taken from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, approximately 12 percent of all interstate highway deaths result from shoulder accidents. This means that an estimated 600 people a year are killed—and thousands more are injured—while making emergency stops off the highway. Think about that.

My issue is the truck was "parked" on an interstate. It is incredibly dangerous, especially at night, because drivers are often fatigued and cannot see what is on the shoulder. Many times accidents happen when fatigued drivers see lights ahead and think that they belong to a car traveling in the right lane, only to find out too late that the lights are on a disabled vehicle on the shoulder. How many times have you come up on a disabled vehicle on the shoulder with out any hazards on, flares, or reflective triangles? Going 55-70MPH these come up quick, and if there is rain or fog it can be deadly. I am amazed that a Meijer grocery truck can park on the shoulders on interstates at night when they have no mechanical problems. It's not a long hauler even, but a local grocery chain in Ohio. If this was mechanical, this truck would have had flares or reflectors out; then Mustang was 100% wrong. So I am curious if this trucker parked on the shoulder to catch some zzzz's because he/she was too lazy to pull off the interstate.

The trucker, if not having a mechanical break-down, has some culpability by endangering all the motorists that early morning. Speed kills so do stupid poeple parking on the shoulders of high speed interstates in the dark.

 

[MyStang]

So sad to see.
The rear tandems on that trailer must have been slid all the way forward to get that much car under the trailer.

 

[The Demon]

I was about to post this video myself. I just seen it friday. Crazy. Glad of the person to stop and try and light the scene the best he could. Maybe pointing the light at oncoming cars in a wigwag fashion to help gather attention possibly may have helped a little more but sometimes your thought process doesnt work like that in the moment

There was a squad car there. I can't believe they weren't trying to do a traffic break.

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